spending a day working at very low-paying jobs, the men would visit a saloon and spend their entire paycheck on alcohol (7.39). This destroyed marriages and families because not only then would the family have no money to spend on food or basic necessities for women and children. Furthermore, the incidence of domestic violence has increased due to the intoxication of men. (7.40). In addition to the religious and feminist support given to the movement, a powerful Anti-Saloon League and many powerful factory owners and businessmen began to support Prohibition. With many new factory owners due to the industrialization of the country, limiting workers' access to alcohol had business advantages (7,39). Factory workers often worked early in the morning and spent long nights, and many factory supervisors noted a decrease in workers' productivity if they drank alcohol the night before (7.39). The Anti-Saloon League largely focused its support for the ban on the destruction of local saloons. Saloons were seen by many as breeding grounds for political corruption (8.125). This is where many immigrants have received job offers, legal assistance, and financial help from politicians in exchange for votes and help from immigrants to rig upcoming elections (8,125). Many of the jobs offered involved actual work in the saloons themselves (8.125). Despite the emergence of rampant political corruption, the influential head of the Anti-Saloon League, Wayne Wheeler, was able to effectively support many “dry” candidates in politics. elections (8, 124). Ultimately, this gave the Prohibition movement the support it needed within the government to create the 18th Amendment in the House of Representatives which stated that... middle of paper... the Mafia had helped criminals obstruct the justice system ( 10,13). It was claimed that it was "impossible to obtain a jury of men brave enough to try criminals" because of their power and ruthlessness (10.14). This has prevented violent criminals from being incarcerated and kept many on the streets to continue creating violence. Criminal groups such as the Torrio-run mafia controlled elections for their own benefit, as in the Cicerone case of April 1924, where gunmen and mobsters lined up outside the polls to intimidate voters (11,909). Criminals like Dion O'banion, an Irish smuggler, were treated like celebrities. When O'banion died in 1924, his funeral was attended by nearly 20,000 mourners (12,137). It was clear that, due to the power and wealth that illegal smuggling had given to criminals, law and order was certainly at the mercy of organized crime (12,137).