From 1981 to 1985 he took up his work from after 1945, as chair of the informal parliamentary temperance group.

One of the first temperance groups in the country started in Darlington in 1831.

During the last two terms he chaired the parliamentary temperance group of the Labour Party.

After a while, temperance groups increasingly pressed for the mandatory prohibition of alcohol rather than for voluntary abstinence.

Created in 1919, the new organization cooperated with temperance groups in over 50 countries on six continents.

In addition, she appeared as a speaker for other temperance groups including The Young Abstainers Union.

Influenced by activism from women's clubs and temperance groups in Berkeley, the Ferguson bill was defeated by one vote.

"A temperance group that fights the demon alcohol with a vengeance, which will at last be mine, now that our affairs are all in order."

A23 Members of a temperance group no longer pray for the prohibition, but they still preach about the ills of alcohol and other social problems.

He reportedly had a second source of income from the selling of alcoholic beverages which made him the target of the local women's temperance group.