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Newspaper
Sunshine Advocate
Location
Sunshine, Victoria, Australia
Date
Mar 28, 1930
Page
5
The passage questions March 29 voting consequences for 20 000 workers and 40 000 dependents if a key industry shuts down. It asks how a lifelong worker would adapt to immediate unemployment and seek equal living standards and new employment.
The article argues farmers pay the tax burden and would suffer from abolition and higher levies. It warns that removing liquor distribution harms barley and hops markets, distilleries, and breweries. Export markets are limited, with climate and trade barriers hurting Victorian producers.
The text argues that widespread unemployment will lower the standard of living for all workers. It notes the annual cost of No Licence at £4,000,000 burdens taxpayers and raises living costs, leading to a lower standard of living with no escape from the consequences.
Farmers and townspeople warn that restricting machinery demand would ruin manufacturing and cost many jobs. If the "Yes" proposal passes, large numbers of workers would be thrown out of work, local distress would rise, and business depression would follow from reduced spending power.
A Washington cable reports William Green of the American Federation of Labor urged President Hoover to amend the Prohibition law to end unemployment and rural distress. The piece argues Prohibition harms primary and secondary industries, leaving workers jobless and poor, urging Victoria to keep breadwinners employed and Prohibition out of the region.
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