A Great Labor Leader’s Advice

Political tract quotes letter of John Lennon, treasurer of American Federation of Labor and general secretary of the Journeyman Tailors' Union of America, to Local Option Committee of Muncie (Indiana), calling on workers to vote to abolish saloons for social and economic reasons. Page 2, compiled by George W. Alden, Brockton, Massachusetts, titled "No Saloon Means Better Wages to Workmen" gives comparison of wage statistics from U.S. Census data for cities in Massachusetts with and without licensure for saloons and of wage statistics for three shoe manufacturing cities with and without licensure for saloons. International Allied Printing Trades Council label at lower edge. Printer location of "Columbus O." (Ohio) on label.
Archival master image scanned in reflective mode as 48-bit RGB color TIFF using Epson Expression 11000 XL. Display image is 8-bit 150 dpi JPG, quality rating 8, generated from uncompressed archival TIFF using Photoshop CS6.

Publisher

Columbus (O.)
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Prohibition Pamphlet Digital Collection

URI

https://hdl.handle.net/10057/31899

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Prohibition Pamphlet Collection

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Prohibition Pamphlet Collection