East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1922-08-01
LABOR NOT ASKING
FOR VOLSTEAD REPEAL

EVANSTON, m, Aug. 1.-Labori
men are not clamoring for beer nor
are they in favor of a hange in the
VoIstead Code according to many
answers to a questionable now being
received by the Union Signal. the Of
ficial publication of the National
Woman's Christian Temperance IN
ion.
Taking issue with Samuel Gompers
on laber's attitude towards prohibi-
ton John G. Cooper U. S. Represen-
tative, Ohio, tfor 10 years employed
by the Pennsylvania Railroad, ana TO-
day a member of the brotherhood OF
Locomotive Engineers says, 1T is not
the working people of our country
who are clamoring for, the return OF
the liauor traffic. 1t is far from the
facts when anyone makes the state
ment that organized labor as a whole
faVors the return of wine and beer. /
do not challenge the right OF MT.
Gompers, or any other leader, to eX-
press his own views and sentiments IN
favor of the repeal of the prohibition
laws. but | do challenge the right OF
| lawa biding working men and women
of our country who Joined hands with
| others and banished this m-American
| institution from the land"
"Ninety-five per centef the railroad
men would vote dry if prohibition
were put up to them,'' is the declara-
| tion of j. Fl. McIlvenny. secretary and
treasurer of Division No. 565 of the
| brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Newcastle, Pa.
"The Union labor leader who says
that the workingman wants his beer
and wine is either a big fool or has in
vested his money in a breezy and has
ioutlived his usefulness.
t'"'Any. So called labor leader, boss OF
politician who tries to make the peo-
pie believe the laboring men are cry
ing for the repeal of the Volstead Law
is an enemy to labor and like the wal
| profiteer is simply throwing a smoke
screen to hide his own contemplate
hide
'"The sense of security that an en-
| gineer, conductor and dispatcher nov
/ has when compared with other days il
| of such incompatible value to us thai
even to think of going back to pre-.
VOlstead times will be enough to cause
every red -blooded, clean-thinking
| true American, two-fisted fightins
man, to rise in his might and forever
crush this curse of humanity"
Admitting that many of the labor
men are not 'fwhat Billy Sunday woult
call dry in that they'd take drink
|
cludes Don't let them kid you thai
we railroad men want booze resurrect-
ed Whovere says we do it liar and
| the truth is not in him"
Warren S. Stone, Grand Chief OF
| the brotherhood of Locomotive En-
gineers, expressed it as his opinion
that drunkenness has decreased at
| least 75 per cent among the workers
Tn my study of the labor problems,
! says Mr.. Stone, 'T find a marked i'm
| proVement in the number of men who
are saving their money and who own
their homes or are buying them, And
7 find a decided Improvement in the
home life of workers due to the fact
that the women and children have
more food, more clothing and better
care in every way"'
The National Women's Trade Union
League, at its annual convention at
Waukegan, Illinois, June 10, passed
the following resolution;
Resolved, That the National Wom-
ems Trade Union League stands un-
equivocally for the enforcement of the
Eighteenth Amendment through the
laws passed by Congress for this pur
pose"