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Show UNION LABOR ON! SIDE OF LIQUOR Rompers Wildly Cheered1 In Urging Sale of Beer i and Light Wines I NEW YORK, May 4 Samuel Gom-pert Gom-pert etoran president of the American Ameri-can Federation of Laboi. speaking Wednesday to a crowd that Jammed Madison Square Garden In a mass meeting called by the .w York branch of the association against the prohibition amendment, deelared that! "labor must mnkc the flht now and We will never stop fighting until the riq-hLs of the peojile have I" ' n rc-Btorjbd rc-Btorjbd to them." Ho was cheered by crowds both inside in-side and outside the big pavilion, for those, who could not get into the hall hi aid th.. various speakers through' voice amplifiers. Tin- meeting wus i largely attended by members of union un-ion labor, representatives of more than 30 labor organizations I'HnK I present There also were many men prominent In the city's business and financial circles, who o- upif.l plac - on the stage. A large part of the and- I lence was composed of women. MORAUTx l SfDSRMINED." ! "I ftnd the federation I represent " Mr. Gompers said, "are in favor of beer .d light wines and again-- mj , attempt to enforce sumptuary law-; aimed at the personal liberty of our i people I have always had faith in the future fu-ture of my country but with prohibition prohi-bition i am apprehensive of that fu-ture fu-ture Temperance was the rule of the Kr.-it mass of organized labor, hut the prohibition Interests and the so-called so-called kntl-8a(oon leaguers have done I more to undermine the moralltv und temperance of the working man than any other agency I know ' I sTING BOOTLEGGER i "I have traveled all over the United States, before prohibition. including Its so-called dry territories, and toda) as I pass through these sections I have found more drunkenness than ever before. There are no stronjer or more powerful supporters of the Volstead act than the distillers and bootleg-i gers. Mr. Gompers declared to the accompaniment of vociferous applause, ap-plause, With the Volstead act and prohibition replaced by a light wine ! land beer law bill, the bootleggers1 would KO out of business." I WOKs WKM. -TO-DO " ' s Bpeyer, banekr, who opened the meeting said what he personally 'disliked more thun anything else nCbout the Volstead act was that "It , lis fast degenerating lnio class legislation, legisla-tion, favoring the well-to-do as against the less fortunate ones of our cltl- I :ens " He was opposed, he said, to ant ! kill. I Of i-PlWK It.vlcK. llAn ! Hudson Maxim, another speaker, said that "the blue law fanatics of I prohibition are a new priesthood as ; Intolerant and merciless as the priest- hood of the Spanish Inquisition." |