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WORKING MEN AND PROHIBITIONBy Congressman John G. CooperNo phase of prohibition has been more sharply discussed than the effect it has had on workingmen generally. This is treated at length by John G. Cooper, Congressman from lt;)hio, and member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. Prohibition.” he writes, ‘‘is making a capitalist of the worker, creating a general ownership of the means of production and solving a strife that once seemed perpetual. Greater gains have been made by labor since the adoption qf the Eighteenth Amendment, with fewer strikes, than in any other equal period of time. When the saloon closed, the ‘poor man's club’ may have vanished hut we arc replacing it today with comfortable homes, fine labor temples and a chain of strong laborbanks.”
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Westerville American Issue
Westerville, Ohio, US
Fri, Sep 18, 1925
Page 7
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