Evening star., 1933-07-03
Special Dispatch to The Star.


uries, according TO a recent survey.
Legalization of beer in New Yorh
State gave jobs to $4,000 men in the
breweries and $4,000 others in allied
industries. 1t brought q great increase
In orders for trucks, one firm receiving
$l2l 900 In orders in a single month
labelling machinery plant experienced
100 per cent employment increase and
800 per cent increase in business. A
manufacturer of glass-lined tanks In
Rochester received one order for $500.
OOo requiring 135 railroad cars te
ship It,
Six Buffalo breweries average 1o(
men each and allied industries have
Denented to an even greater degree. A
dozen plants manufacturing beer-vend.
ing equipment have doubled stats In
almost every instance. A pretzel fac
tory. dormant since prohibition, has put
In three shifts. The County Board an
nounces approximately 100000 ha,
been taken in for licenses. The Empire
State received 81 900, 900 in beer revenue
Tor the first two months, with another
81 ,000, 900 expected when the tax mud.
die Is Strengthened out. The Federal
April.
brewef1es Aid Syracuse.
Operation Of four breweries in Syra-
cuse, N. Y, has put about 275 men back
to work and the remodeling of a fifth
after July l will mean an added force
Of SO to IS men. Opening Of restau-
rants. beer gardens and steak and chou
houses serving beer has resulted in the
employment Of several hundred walters
Mattresses. chefs. bartenders and porters
Equipment COMPARES have experienced
rush o. orders The city will benefit
from its share Of the license fee paid
to the State
Surveys made by Boston trade organ
iZations and the Department of Labor
show legal beer has increased restau-
rant food sales and employment. Three
Massachusetts, breweries are working
overtime. There were IS before prohi-
bition. These breweres have added
about 900 men to their rolls. East Bos-
ton cooperage, barrel and keg firms
dormant before, are working overtime
Two more breweries are under con-
struction. To date the State tax COM
missioner has taken in $75 900 on beer
taxes and $l8l 500 in license fees, all
allocated by statute to old age pensions
Boston took in $4,000.
Atlanta. Ga. reports $50 dealers have
purchased licenses. which means $40. .OOC
to $25 900 in the city treasury annually
Proprietors OF cafes, stores and drink
stands handling beer say their business
has increased. Atlanta officials. how
ever, think employment increase as the
result OF beer will be negligible until
the State has repealed its dry law. Beer
though legalized by the city, cannot be
manufactured in the State As a result
several large breweries must remain
closed.
Unrestricted sale of beer in South
Carolina has benefited the establish
me1ts handling it. manufacturer OF
wooden cases and several lumber COM
panies have received added business
OF the tax Of cents a bottle and $46s
a keg. 20 per cent of the proceeds Is
allotted to the city in which sales are
made. 40 per cent to county. and the
remainder to the State treasury No
city license Is required in Charleston
Pickup Seen in Chicago.
Legalization of beer is held one OF
the principal factors in the business
pickup in Chicago 1t has been a boon
to the Century Of Progress Exposition.
officials say. Breweries and allied
trades are absorbing larger share OF
the city's unemployed than has any
other upturn in the job situation since
October, 1929. Bottle manufacturers
coopers. paper makers. lumber and fix
ture dealers. machinery makers AID food
product dispensers are among those
groups benefiting from the sale OF legal
beer. OF 6.l35 beverage licenses issued
since the first Of the year. 5000 were
taken out since 80 beer became legal
This has been a boon to the real estate
market
Brewery. distributors and retailers
licenses have brought well over 81 .00O,-
00e into the Ohio treasury. The Cleve-
land district has produced $500 of
this type of revenue. 100000 of which
has gone into the city's Golfers. There
are seven breweries in operation in the
the city. with another planning to open
soon. Several hundred men have been
given jobs directly in the breweries,
while scores of others are engaged in
trucking the beer. Cooperage houses
have had an immense increase in busi-
ness. Hundreds of vacant buildings on
Cleveland's business streets have been
turned into beer parlors. Restaurants
cradle increases in their business since
beer came in. 1t is estimated 5000 men
who otherwise would not be at work or
only on part-time jobs now have full
time work as a result of beer in Ohio.
Legal beer in Detroit has stimulated
business to a considerable degree. One
corporation manufacturing steel beer
barrels is employing an additional 800
men in this department alone. The
main line of this company has been au-
tomobile bodies. Officials say their
purchase of steel, insulating material,
forgings and other parts used in the
barrel department undoubtedly has
given work to another 600 men not pre-
viously employed. An equipment COM
pany's business Jumped 1000 per cent
after beer became legal, and its en-
ployment roster was tripled. In addi-
tion 40 or so statesmen were hired and
wages Of employees increased 10 per cent.
The automotive industry has benefited
through sales of delivery trucks.
Detroit Collections High.
There are six breweries operating in
Detroit. employing approximately $500
men. Beer and license collections up
to and including June % amounted to
81, ,0s5 ,226, of which $263,054 was tax
money and sS32.l72 license money.
Local communities will get 95 per cent
Of the retail license fees. The State
keeps the brewers and wholesalers fees
It Is estimated Detroit will get about
5000, 900 of the collections to date.
A sharp financial return to the State
and its political subdivisions in beer
taxes is noticeable in Iowa. Legaliza-
ton OF the new beverage has aided
materially the pretzel and cheese busi-
ness throughout the State.
Kansas City hotels are doing bet
ter business as a result of beer, but
hotel executives believe general busi-
ness itself is better. Box manufacturers,
operating two days q week before the
new beer, are now running two shifts.
Trucking companies have felt the en-
trance Of 80 beer, and half a dozen
carpentry shops are devoting full time
to building bars. Ice and refrigerator