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The Prescott Daily News
Prescott, Nevada County, Arkansas
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Prohibition in Shreveport, LA, since 1908 has boosted labor unions, wages, home ownership among workers, and union employment at a former brewery, per T. J. Greer and Senator Richard Jones.
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T. J. Greer, president of the Louisiana State Federation of Labor, declares that the wages of every craft in Shreveport has steadily increased since the city went dry. "The reason we have been able to organize so successfully here," he says, "is because the liquor interests have been removed from union politics." Senator Richard Jones of Duluth, for 14 years a union labor man, furnishes the following significant data:
In 1908 the city of Shreveport, La., voted dry.
Since Shreveport went dry, the membership in labor unions has increased from 1,800 to 3,700.
Since Shreveport went dry, union labor men owning homes in that city have increased 40 per cent.
Under the wet regime the single brewery in Shreveport employed six nonunion brewery workers.
Under the dry regime that same brewery has been turned into an ice plant and employs 40 union ice makers.
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Shreveport, La.
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Since 1908
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membership in labor unions increased from 1,800 to 3,700. union labor men owning homes increased 40 per cent. brewery turned into ice plant employing 40 union ice makers instead of 6 nonunion workers.
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T. J. Greer declares wages increased and union organization succeeded due to removal of liquor interests. Senator Richard Jones provides data on labor improvements since Shreveport voted dry in 1908.