The Connecticut labor news., 1922-05-12
DETAILED FACTS ON FOREIGN PRINTING SHOWN TO TREASURY
 PROVE NEED OF RESTRICTION
WHEELER ATTACKS
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other IuXuries but no one would claim that they enjoy these privileges be- cause tie law prohibits the poor man from buying a diamond. The selfish rich who haunt their disre- gard for law i'll the face of the unrest of today are setting a poor example for the anarchist who uses their ex- ample as precedent for his attempt 10 destroy the government itself In the opinion of many local labor leaders, the statements Of MT. Wheel CT about Mir. Gompers and labor gen erally are on d par with many Of the statements made by him and other prohibition enthusiasts, which are not borne out by the facts. While 1t is probably true that MT. Gompers has always been opposed to prohibition, that can be said of many other prom incnt men in all walks of life That the majority Of Organized Labor men vote dry IS something MT. Wheeler will have to show more satisfactorily to the majority Of their leaders, many ot whom are strict teetOtellars but are nevertheless opposed to the dras- tic prohibition laws.
 Whether or not Mr. Gompers speaks for the major part of labor in his opposition MT. Wheeler inti- mates ne does not, cannot matter. MT. Wheeler, however, must admit, local leaders say, that the executive board of the A. F. of L. with its vast sources Ot information does represent the majority and that body has gone on record officially for the 1nodihca- ton ot the Volstead Act to permit light wines and beers, as 1t has found the majority of the workers of the country demand. On the executive board are such men as Secretary Frank Morrison, who is admittedly friendly toward the "dry'' aims but even he approved and signed a call upon all local unions in the country to work for the amendment of the present law. Probably MT. Wheeler knows more than do these men about the sentiment of the organized labor ing man of the country, but local la bOr men doubt it.
 As to his slam that the saloon was the headquarters of Labor i'll the past, all labor men will challenge him to prove it Not since Labor's organ ization has the saloon ever figured as the headquarters for labor meetings and never, as MT. Wheeler we'll knows, were any official actions taken III ooNIA P1oNNS lIldI ACduil GU lllC "clear- thinking" that Mr. Wheeler so deplores the lack of. While perhaps the saloon was the only available place that laboring men individually had to gather while out of work, local labor men admit. They add that MT. Wheeler we'll knows that the saloon was not the headquarters for any thing to do with labor and is using unfair tactics to arouse further an tagonisn against labor when he ap- pears before representative church gathering and tries to leave the i'm pression that Labor rose in it's wrath because melted by liquors and sur roundings in corner saloons.
 In fact, local labor men declare, his whole tirade against the Labor ele- nlent in the anti-prohibition cause is vicious, even though he does try to square it somewhat by inserting few banalities about the law applying to the rich man as we'll Instead of cajoling Labor he only got it's resent