New-York tribune., 1922-02-27
Labor Chiefs
Demand Beer:
Ass;aiR E)ry Act
Executive Council of he 4.
/. of |. Urges Citizens
to Make l!oIiiica,ion Of
Law an Issue i'm Elections,
'Nocial, Moral Failure
Aucrca~c u sncn,pIoy'nrnl
and ''ial'cr gaNc, Urged
~ Need for amendments

Pic r. o1sc NootUf0foa rinco.l
NAsTHNGToN, Fcb % Modioca
tion o1 .bc Nolstcad ac, to permit thc
manufacture aod sale of Nrh, vine
ard beer was demanded to-day bv ho
Nmo1iean Federation of Labor Ia n
declaration from tho executive council
Of Tho lbor org'ailatjou the ,iti1cn
.h.o Of tso ontrc country is urged to
maize tla. o0o of tho imnortauh hissucs
in the com ne Consrcssional elections
Tho declaration addressed ITO tho
Amcmcan People" ny that the cxccu
t}'c councH has made an czhauativc
ntosfieat atou Of the oacets Of 'hc Vol
stcal al and the ,oseli d scloscd arc:
rcnora1 disregard Of the law
amoa- al CLASSES or pcople inclQd
me those 40 made the law
Creation OF Thousands Of moon
among both country and city
rao creation Of am army of boot.
a. ama7Ius pcroaeo in the traffic
IN pojsoos and deadly concoctions
and drug
An mcreasc3 ,a,c of rsanity,
hfn1no aul cwme among tac usors
'n0se cencccNons and drug
increase lu aploynleut dne 10
loss OF empio,moH hy workers iH
for' f'.e Industries directly or ij
dircctl connected With the manu-
faeture Of liquors.
l1crcSsc in taSos. o. cl'y. state and
ustoual governments amoun ing to
.,, ~.
vcal
"rac American Federation o( LABOR.
q, the spolcsman of thc uuorEanized
we'll ~ the organi1cd toilors. having in
mnd thc iu'olcei and the welfare Of
our people, decided hv uaaOim9us vote
i'm rs convention held in Denver in
lN0c 1e2l tha .hc Vol tead caforco-
WcH' act mnet ro modifcd 20 rs to
0romote tine ua1ufactnlc aud aalc of
acer aad jehf wncs.' says tine dccia
rauor
Rcd N~ccdcr Of Discomfort
az, apiaz n uar& These rc-ulf- of
the extreme nta nrotanou Of 1hc pro
'1h' aMandmovt contained iN tho
\elstead acl. a. vcil as tie euormous
ozqcnsc o. tlc aitompt 80 enforce tast
uucnfofceaOlc legislation. u is our con
clrslen llat tha act i~ an improDor
i''tvrprct1t on the prohibit j0n
aWea6mout. ttat il is social and
''o}5' failure. ard tna' t dangcr-
ou- breeder Of di~content and O. con-
temp for AL laN
Something 81 the economic effect
Of the Nolstcad a. nav be seen tY
cor dering she f.}c' TINT r. 1918. ac-
c0fding to government statistics. Sll0.-
Geo.0 worth o6 farm products were
f.f,f .r4y I,r-
'raNeno nortation of these products to the
manufactures and thence u tho cor
umor uecossitatod tho uzo Of 1873 G66
1aiiroad cars. addition to this
hrcwerirs N Npfratiou in 1918 con-
sumoe $4,000 carloads of coal 1t must
be obvious that the total economic cf-
feet Of tho destruction of this industry
is Tremendous.
"lho American Federation Of Labor
always has beer thc advocatc of law
ard order ana always has cndoavorcd
TO croato conditions which would make
possible the highest typo Of citizenship.
For Reasonable Interpretation
Nv do not protest again the cieh-
tcouth amendment to the Constitu-
t"n. winch now is part of tho fun
damental law o' tho land Wc do rot
protest against the principle cstab-
.ishea by the eighteenth amcndment
1T rs orr contention that the eighteenth
amonameat under reasonable and
proper legislative irtcrurotation would
be beredcial to oar county AND would
naVo The support or the great major
NY a our people.
The eighteenth amendment. how
ever. under the present drastic and un
roasonaoie Legislative interpretation.
rus Destructive and Gctoriorating Ct
fecf and influence in cvcry direction.
" seek no violation of the tl,,ht-
eenih Amendment. but, or tho contrary.
We declare Tor reasonable iuterprcta.
70" al that amendment in order That
the sw may be oatorceabie and en-
forced ana IN ordc' hat the people Of
our country may no. suffer from am un-