Prohibition (The Volstead Act), 1917-1934

Letters from AFL President Gompers to President Wilson opposing the Prohibition Act and Volstead Act, December 14, 1917 and October 20, 1919; AFL press release calling for modification of the Volstead Act to allow beer and wine, February 25, 1922, 3 pages; letter to New York Governor Al Smith from AFL President Gompers, urging repeal of state law enforcing Volstead Act, May 29, 1923; letter from AFL President Green to President urging manufacture and sale of beer, December 22, 1925; statements by AFL legislative representative W. C. Roberts before legislative committees, describing Volstead Act as cause of crime, blindness and insanity, likening it to Soviet program of institutionalizing atheism by thought-control of the young, urging sale of beer and wine, 1926, 8 pages and c. 1929, 9 pages; correspondence