Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 113, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 May 1918 — INDIANA MINERS ASK BEER; DON’T DESIRE SALOONS [ARTICLE]

INDIANA MINERS ASK BEER; DON’T DESIRE SALOONS

Terre 1 Haute, Ind., May 20.—Vincenzio Boaso, president, and Leo Poll, secretary of local No. 6,044, Blanford, Ind., United Mine Workers. of America, reported Saturday that the local had passed a resolution to send to the Indiana supreme court a memorial containing this appeal : • “That the respective locals request that we be not deposed of our rights to keep beer in our homes for family use. Since the,state went ‘dry’ our people have been falling sick, and the condition of the water is bad. Beer has been used instead of water, so we ask due consideration. We do not care for saloons or whiskey, but we believe that beer is a necessity, as has been heretofore proved. We earnestly appeal to restore our beer. Motion carried unanimously.”