Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-03-03
NO BEER MORE WORK.

president OF the Central unionists OF
New Jersey in his effort to create no
beer nor work strike is that thousands
OF men would be thrown out OF work.
That appeal is powerful one to the
man who works, the more powerful Of
course If his congratulations are for
beer and work in equal parts. most il
he feels that life with beer and without
work would he paradise.
But in Iowa today where the saloon
has been banished long enough to per-
nit Iowans to know what they're talk
ing about not one man is ont Of work
because the breweries and the saloons
are out of business-except those who
are refusing work at good wages.
Every man who drew beer and booze
wages has a better JOB If ne wants it.
For instead of destroying jobs aboH
ton of breweries and saloons make
| jobs.
A partial list of the changes that take
place when beer and booze go out of
the manufacturing line is usefully IL
Illuminating. 1t could be carried an in
definitely:
The brewery at Lansing, Mich, is
now used in the manufacture Of auto
mobile parts.
The brewery at Huntington, W. Va,
i- O y,arkinr y1larr
The Raymann Brewery Of Wheel
ing, ". Va. Is now the Raymann
Company. engaged in meat packing.
The Iowa City Qa-) Brewery Is now
creamery and produce conptny.
The Uneeda W. Va Brewery Is
now a milk products company.
The Coors Brewery Of Denver now
makes matted milk and fine quality
OF porcelain.
The North Yakima Wash.) Brew
cry Is now a fruit by-product COM
pany.
The Salem (Ore.) Brewery is now
manufacturing loganberry Juice.
The Star Brewery. Washington, Pa,
| Is now the Capital Paint, Oil and Var.
nish Company.
| The Pacific Coast Brewery. Portland,
| Ore. Is now a shoe factory and en-
uloys $500 men, as against 1913 men
| employed when it manufactured beer.
The Cedar Rapids Ga-) Brewery is
now a creamery and produce company
! The Rainier Brewery Of Portland,
| Ore, is now a tannery employing 1000
| men, where it formerly employed Loo
/ men.
The brewery of the Portland Brew
| ing Company. Portland, Ore, IS now a
| furniture factory and employs 900 men.
As a brewery 1t employed 100 men.
The Anheuser- Busch Brewing AS
| ISOLATION plant St. Louis. that has SO
long manufactured "Budweiser,' one
| Of the most extensive brewing plants
/ in the world. is to be the scene Of pork
packing before the lst Of March. A
new corporation known as the Bevo
Packing Company with ; 1.o90,000 cap
ital has alrerdy been formed.
| The old Acme Brewery of Macon
Ga, is now packing millions Of dollars
worth Of meat.
| A brewery in Flint Mich. has be-
| come a church; one in Aberdeen
Wash, has become clam cannery;
| one In Spokane is making vinegar;
one in Mobile is making syrup and
stock feed from waternelons; one in
Peoria, Ill. is grinding cornmea1: one
in Rhode Island is producing moving
pictures; one In Seattle is turning rice
into syrup; one in Chicago is hospi-
tai and another is a soft drinks fac
tory: several others are in the dairy
! business Nest Of these now employ
more workers than before.
OF course in iowa we know how
favorably the election of saloons and
breweries affects business and the
common welfare. But we also recol-
lect that many good people looked fol
grass to grow in the streets and bust
ness to die Of inanition If the step were
taken, persons who would fight the sale
Of liquor in their home towns to Tthe
last ditch now that time has proved t.
them that liquor is parasite on tht
body polite and business.
A year or two Of national prohibition
will change the convictions of mos
OF the present advocates Of the "n'