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Show CHILEAN 1NE GROWERS FIGHT dry mm Government to Lose Great Income In-come Should Prohibition Go Into Effect SANTIAGO, 'hi!e. Dec! 2. One o the first official ::et ot' PreSlden Artiiro Alessandl, who assumed offb on Thursday, was to receive a petitloi loday from a Chilean Federation o Labor protesting against the ailegei lltetnpts of the League of Iefctise o 1 lie n llir ilivi.ui... '.v .v.v ..v port workers to unload liguors. The I labor organlzotlon already had adopted adopt-ed a resolution effective January 1 to refuse to unload liquors, whether of I home or foreign manufacture In defending the wine Industry. Sen-lator Sen-lator BdWarda declared a real ' icam-Ipulgn icam-Ipulgn is developing In this country against alcohol and Kvine. lie aseert-'cd aseert-'cd the Importation of alcohol and Its sale at bars could be prohibited but (hat it was not admissible to adopt measures which would 'ruin n national nation-al Industry: prejudice workera in this .line of employment and force a transformation trans-formation Of industry." Senator IJd wards asserted It Is Impossible, Im-possible, for Chile to Imitate the United iStutcs ln respect to prohibition because be-cause the latter country never possessed pos-sessed a wine industry, except in one I stale, whereas it was a national institution in-stitution in Chile, built up at great jcost and effort and from which the government derived ah enormous income. in-come. i aplt.il Invested in the Chilean win. IndUStT) amounts to 900,000,000 pesos, he estimated,- oo |