davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-16
Copyright 'os,, NEA Service, Inc.

the United States $35, ,000, 900 worth of goods and imported $7S,- 300, 900. The United States occupied third place among 5pain's custom- CTS and took n per cent of her products. But large as Spain's American imports seemed. she only ranked 18th among Amerlca's cus- toners and only took 1.5i per cent of her products.
 American customs was valuable to Spain, but America could cas- fly afford to do without Spain's custom. even though among her purchases was $S,000,000 worth of automobiles, or about 80 per cent of those the country imported.
 The paper pointed out that the new tariff act only affected one- third of Spain's exports to Amer lea. The tariff on another third remained unchanged and on the balance there was no iariff at all.
 Nevertheiess. Spain changed her tariffs on automobiles. typcwritern and machinery. thre of tho biggest classes of imports from America to Spain. The result was that many American firms, whic had been do- ing business in Spain, cut down their forces, sending some of their American employees homo and dis- missing some of their Spanish as- sistants.
 Surplus Is Problem
 Last year the wheat. wine and olive oil crops were all big. but this only added to the trouble, be-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-16

pointed to a German police dog owned by 4 resident of that town. If the bond k not posted within Il reasonable time the dog Is to be killed.
 One might think this new way of puniShing offenders. but this is not so. In former times vicious dogs kicking horses and other animals had 10 pay the penalty for their misdccds, SO that it waB no: unusual for pets 10 get heavy Aca- icncea in open court. but this did not relieve the owners from all re- sponaibility. If that law ever goes into effect in Waterbury the courts will have to slt nights to keep up with the business. Anyway. from all accounts they have n hard time restraining dogs in Mnsshchusctts, This is true of every community where there are large numbers of sheep which are an easy prey Tor dogs, Hunting sheep and feeding on them ia fine sport for cnnincA, but it turns out to be q different atOry when the dog K tried. founI guilty and condemned to death
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-16
The Dog Business
 in Bay State Owners Must Put Up the Bonds for Their Good
 Behavior

The authorities at Pittsicld. Mass. have taken steps to sec that dogs behave or If not their masters will pay handsomely for their mis- conduct, With thIa end in view James Sands has been ordered by the county commissioners To file n bond of $200 to sure the good be- havior of his police dog for n year. This was tho result of n complaint to the effect that dogs had killed lambs and sheep In the town of Adams. but it was not possible to nx the blame on any particular pct, although it k evident from what has transpircd that suspicion
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-16

cause the world market was al- ready overstocked. Ordinarily Spain imports wheat. but last year her own yield was large and some of 1t found no market.
 The wine grower used to And q good market in France. where his product was blended with native wines. But in 1929 the French passed law which rather aboi- iahed the blending of foreign wines with those of France. This was at once fele in Spain.
 The cost of living ties up di- rectly with low wages.
 Taking tho year 1913 as the ba- sic year in fixing 100 as the cost of living then, 1t was found that in March of this year the index figure was 194, or nearly doublcs And wages have not kept pace with this increase.
 Spain tries to be as self-contain- ed as possible, but everything she imports costs more, because of the lower value of the pegcta. Hence tho present government Is doing all it can to prevent the pesetn from being carried out of the country. The amount of money n person Is allowed to take out of the country is limited to 5000 pesctas. or about $500. The economic reason for this has already been explained. But there is also q political reason. The republican government ia seeking to prevent the monarchist noble men and rich land owners from moving their treasure to foreign countries.
 This safeguarding of the peseta is seriously interfering with busi- ness. In the old days. if a Bnrce- Iona business man made purchases of raw materials and wanted to buy American dollars or German marks or English pounds sterling. he showed his invoices to bank ingfirms and was easily accommo- dated. But now. before all the pa- pers in the case must be sent to Madrid. where they are scrutinizcd to determine whether they are gen. ulne transactions or merely m at- tempt to cvnde the decrease. NEXT-A resume Of the six great problems confronting Spain today. Mir BrOnhcr discusses each and gives their back ground.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-16
HAROLD (. DAWSON NEW DIAL SYSTEM
Local Manager of TeIe- phone Company Talks
 on Dial Plan
IMPROVED SERVICE

Party line subscribers in outly- ing areas of the exchange as far distant as ten miles from the cen- trai office will be provided with dial service when Waterbury's tei- ephoncs are converted to the new system Saturday at midnight. due to the development of special type of central office equipment. according to Harold q. Davis, To- cal manager of the telephone com pany.
 "Thls new and improved equip ment is n recent development of Bell system telephone engineers and is known as Code Ringing Conncctor equipment" said Mir Davis. "It permits maximum of six parties to line with dial serv- lee and thus extends to suburban subscribers ali the advantages of dial service that city subscribers will have after Saturday. The in- stallation of this new equipment in Waterbury is the first of its kind in Connecticut and one of the first in the country.
 Before the development of the new equipment, dial service in cx- changes has been limited to the area close to the central office and 10 q maximum of four parties to line. In suburban areas more distant it has been uneconomicaI 10 maintain this maximum and, at the same time, extend dial service to these party line subscribers. In fact. it has been nece~ary to pro- vide such service on manual basis, forcing us to maintain man ual switchboards. This has bcan uneconomical and resulted in slower service 10 subscribers in distant suburban areas.
 But now. with the conversion 10 the new system next Saturday at midnight. we shall extend the benefits of dial service to these subscribers in distant suburban arcas. Each subscriber will hear the rings of only two other partier in addition to hia own, instead of hearing all party-line rings as for. merly. There will never be moro than six parties to q line. which is unlike the present system in that it haH occasionally been necessary to include more than this number for varying periods of time. Fur. thcrmore. ringing will be done me- chanically. providing absolute uni- formity, which will make it easy to identify the ringing codes.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-16
BRAk EMAN GAINS FAME
 AS MAkEH OF VIOL1NS

Altoona. Pa TpJ L.. Bohn. Pc n sylvanla passenger brakeman, has built up wide spread reputation aE n maker of fine violins He has produced m ore than 100 of the instruments, be- sides making few mandolins and other string Instruments. Bohn viollns arc used in Italy.
 About 2 years ago Balm was laid up with an injury Rather than remain Idle he get ou to learn violin modelling.
 He uaes carefully seasoned Tyro- lean maple and Swiss pine in the construction. and has a kit of 250 tools. Bonn ia not T violinist him sclf, but his aon, Rnyford, plays one of his fathcr's products skill fully.
 s----ea--aeasa7sa4zs--aHa
 China ia extending itH rndto com f1IlnIf1I
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-16
RATTLEi,S STUDIED DURING
 WAR ON 300 REPTILES

Boise, Ida UUP)-~While killing 300 indulsltive rattlesnnkes that Invaded their camp within two months workers on c0nstructio camp at Rnft River found time to study habits of the reptiles.
 The snakes hold their rattles vertical. not horizontally, when they crawl. it was found. A drop of tobacco juice will kill . snako nt once, a "chawer" with n flair for research found. An infuriated reptile will bite itself in the tail and die of poison. the workmen declared,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-16
BY MILTON BRONNER


 Barcelona, - spain is not only suffering from the growing pains of q newly-founded republic. but wor- ried by the disease which is to-day universal in the world--cconomic depression.
 The Spanish wheat grower is In the same fix aa tho American. The Spanish industrialiat Is looking for markets as hard as the American. The Spanish banker is studying the prices of Spanish industrial stocks AS painfully as is his brother bank CT in the United States.
 A lot is heard in Spain about the unemployment situation. The re- publican government is taking steps in various parts of the coun- try to alleviate real distress by providing work and money. Spain has never been n country for up- to-dnte statistics and it is difficult 10 get real figures on uncmploy- ment. IL has been estimated that 20 per cent of the agricultural lab- orers in this prcdominatIy agricui- turai country are out of work or on part time. IL is claimed that in the cities the situation ia quite bad.
 But the chances Gre that the facts as to unemployment in the country arc exaggerated for politi- cal purposes. particularly by the more radical elements. One can get inc best slant on things from American business men, who have represented big American organiz- ations in Madrid and Barcelona for long time and whose job it is to keep posted and who have no poli- tical prejudiccs. They say Spain is far better off in this unemployment problem than most other countries Of Europe.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-16

svcnf upcyiorify ot ESSO opeY coon ifs ssSv- ea com mbefif0r.
 ESSO shows similar superiority on every other point of performance. Developed in the worlds leading oil laboratories. ESSO is more than just another Ethyl fuel. Not tho Ethyl it contains, but its fuel base is what makes it SO radical in advance.
 ESSO gives distinctly now "fccl" to driving q. in all types of cars. Probably the first dif- ference you will notice will bs it's sensational knockless power actually, in high con1- prcssion engines, 4oo to 1leo greater than that of other premium fuels and as high as 20oo greater than that of ordinary sasolines. Give ESSO To-day trial. You'll under. stand why millions both here and in the 20 foreign countries where it is also sold will use nothing clscl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-16

After having walked . distance equal to six and onc-half times around tho world. James Brink. low. . postman. has just retired from the Aberdeenshirs. Scotland. service, he having hiked f7 Ia miles every week day for 5i years.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-16

EDITORS NOTE This Is the sixth of seven exclusive stories by Milton Bronncr, European man ager for NEA Service and Water- bur RBc1nocrat. who has just tour- ed Spain. The series is very timely fn view of the fact that q c0nsti- tutional convention tO set up a form of government for the worlds newest republic which convened at Madrid on July th
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-16
Manager Proves
 Movies Not Wasteful
Brandow Tells How Industry Keeps the Overhead
 Down.

The popular theory that the mo- ton picture Industry simply throws money away K refutod by
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-16

EXAMTNE the chart above. It records AC the Octane Ratings (thc new way of determining the ant.knock quality of motor fuels, adopted by the Society of Automo- tive Eneinccrs) of the l2 leading premium
 fuels. Notice the way they vary. And He
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-16

and the owner obliged to pay tn da ma gcR.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-03
R. |. Textile Strike Mass
Delegation to Put Demands
to Governor on August 7
Struggle Against So, SIS Weekly Wages, for I'm
employment Insurance and Against Murder
Gus Boss Terror

PROVIDENCE. r. I. July 81
Driven by unbearable conditions,
$500 textile workers in Pawtucket,
Central Falls and Olneyville, Rhode
Island are on strike. These workers
have received wage cut upon wage
cut coupled with a merciIess speed
up Weekly pay envelopes have been
received by these workers with as
low as So, 81 and SIS per week. These
strikes are literally strikes against
starvation. The strike demands in
every case are against wage-cuts and
speed-up. There are the issues in
the struggle.
Because these strikes were 100 per
cent effective, every agency Of the
employers was Immediately modified
to crush them. The workers were
deprived of their rights to picket. to
assemble and to organize through a
vicious police terror. In Central
Falls and Pawtucket tear gas bombs
we're thrown into crowds of men,
women and children, machine guns
we're mounted on the mills, police
were given orders shoot to kill"
State police were used to club the
workers The United States Depart
ment of Labor was utilized to ter
rorize the workers. Native born
citizens were held without bail on
deportation charges. Workers were
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-03
PACE TO LEAD
PICKET LINE AT
THE Iowa MILL
7 7nited Front Rep Is
Threatened by UTW
and socialists"
Especial to the Daily Worker

ALLENTOWN. Pa, Aug. Last
night 1000 silk workers voted to be on
the picket line Monday morning at
the Iowa Mill with Robert Pace,
representative Of the United Front
General Strike Committee of Pater-
son. Charley Heimbach, shop chair
man of the Iowa Mill reported that
Iowa succeeded in terrorizing some
weavers striking IA weeks to agree
to return to worn monday on the
same conditions against which the
workers are striking.
Leaders present at the meeting in
Guided Mcdonnell of the United
Textile Workers, Moser of the Cen
trail Labor Union, Ritchie of the
Hosiery Workers Of Philadelphia and
Weber, a Socialist. They did not
take the platform to organize the
strikers to smash the bosses terror
and stop desertion in the ranks.
Pace asked for the floor. Leon
Case, chairman and United Textile
Workers pvppet, refused to give Pace
the floor. Workers demanded the
floor for Pace. The latter spoke call
ing on workers to be on the picket
line Monday morning to steel the
ranks and smash attempts to break
the strike and go forward to victory
together with the United Paterson
Central Falls, Pawtucket and Put
nam and New London striking silk
and dye workers. Workers spplsuded
Pace for long time.
A worker in the audience asked
Pace if he was willing to lead the
picket line. Pace said he would &C
cept the leadership of the picket line
Monday All excepting the U. T. w.
misleaderS raised their hands to go
on the picket line
Information was received today
that the U. T. w. and socialist mis-
leaders met secretly after the meet
ing last night to discuss ways and
means Of running Pace out of town
They decided to organize their
puppets on the shop chairmen's COM
mittee to have gang get Pace.
Today at the shop chairmens meet
ing Kelley, U. T. W. organizer, led
the attack against Pace and the
worker who asked if Pace was willing
to lead the picket line, demanding
that both be run out of town. .
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-03
Fur Workers Spur
Campaign in the Shops;
Knitg0ods Dept. Meets

NEW YORK-On Monday night
right after work a meeting of active
fur workers will be held at the Of
flee of the union, 131 w. 18th St, to
mobilize for active participation for
spreading the campaign during the
coming week.
On Monday night there will also
be a meeting Of fur plate workers.
The workers in this branch of the
trade are the most ruthlessly ex-
plotted. The Industrial Union re-
Gently began activities to organize
these workers. In order to interfere
with this work the company union
has formed a fake local. The work
ers have repudiated this fake local
of the company union and are plan
ming to get on the job organizing
their trade beginning with Mondays
meeting.
The Fur Department has decided
to call a series Of street meetings
beginning with next week The first
meeting to be called is of workers
employed on goth ST., between
Broadway and 9Th Ave. A call has
been issued to the workers, regis
tered and non-registered, Of COM
pany union shops, open shops, and
union shops to come to these street
meetings to be held at the office of
the union, 131 w. 18th ST., on Tues
day, right after work.
On Tuesday at 7 o'clock there will
be meeting of the Committee Of
IS elected at the United Front Con-
ference. On Wednesday there will
be a building meeting of all fur
workers employed at 315 It'll Ave.
On Thursday mass meeting of
dogskin workers where the challenge
of kaufman as to whether the dog
skin workers received increases or
not will be answered by the workers
from the shops,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-03

arrested without cause. They were
visited and inundated in their
homes. They were driven off the
steps of their houses. The Depart
men5 of Labor sent its agents, Anna
Weinstock Brown and others, to
work with fake citizens commit
tees" etc, to break the strikes.
To Present Demands
The wage cutting in textile, is part
Of the wage cutting in all the in
duStries thruout the United states.
The U. S. Steel Trust openly admits
that it is leading the way for all
other corporations in a nationwide
wage cutting campaign. wall Street
regards the current squabble in
Washington over what the admins
trationS stand on wages may be, as
of no Importance" providence Jour-
nal, July 80 1880. The textile
workers are fighting the battle of
the entire worhng-class. We call
upon all workers to form a broad
united front movement in support Of
the strikers demands and for their
rights to organize, to picket, to free
speech and assembly.
On Friday, August 7, at 8 p. M
a mass delegation representing the
workers of Rhode Island will present
to Governor Case and the Legisla-
CONTINUED ON PAGE THREEl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-03
THOUSANDS IN
UNIONSQUAREN
ANTI-WAR MEET
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONEp

ole fight of the 10000 miners striking
against starvation. The demonstrate
ors unanimously pledged to support
the strike by means of relief and SOL
idarity. A telegram of greetings was
sent to the miners.
The police watch-dogs of capital
ism we're conspicuously on hand, as
usual. Several hundred were in open
evidence, while scores of others we're
hidden in loft buildings surrounding
the square. Many acts of provoca-
ton were committed by the police
who, however, facing a large and
militant crowd of workers, stopped
short of open attack on the demon
Stration.
Many Of the police, especially one
whose badge number was 1894, spent
most of their time trying to provoke
the workers by pushing the workers
about roughly and shouting at them
to keep inside the white lines which
marked the square. Officer 1894,
rather hefty cop, stationed for a
while to the left of the speakers
stand, looked hard for trouble.
Women and children were his spe-
cialty Every time a woman or child
walked over the line where he was
stationed they were welcomed by a
vicious snarl, Get along there,
youse,' accompanied by rough
shove.
Following the speaking program Of
the Workers Laboratory Theatre pre-
sented Turn the Guns, a colorful
and forceful pageant against imper-
ialist war. Two anaemic looking men
wearing high silk hats represented in
ternational capitalism driving the
workers in the factories and firing
them wholesale, at the same time
moulding the minds of the workers
for war against the Soviet Union. The
last part of the pageant showed the
capitalists modifying the workers for
war against the Soviet Union The
workers instead Of attacking the Sow
let Union turned their guns against
their real enemies. the capitalists.
This was loudly cheered and applaud
ed by the masses of workers pres
ent. Thousands of workers who we're
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-03
STRIKE IN PARIS.

PARIS, Aug. building workers
struck yesterday Thirty-six workers
we're arrested for distributing and
FASTING leaflets. The youth demon
strated before the Care Du Nord
The police arrested several. Addi-
tional demonstrations were held in
workers suburbs during the day.
Several hundred workers were ar
rested. At Limoges, Strasburg, Rou-
baix mining areas, spirited anti-war
demonstrations were held. Many
arrests were made in the provinces.
NEW YORK. - Additional reports
on August anti-war demonStra-
tons throughout the world under
Communist leadership are reported
as follows by the United Press and
Associated Press, capitalist news
agencies:
In Madrid the Civil Guards dis
persed a demonstration against i'm
perialist war preparations Several
workers were arrested by the Social
ist-Republican police when they at
tempted to take part in the dem
onstrations. A strong police force
was on the streets.
Over 1000 were arrested during the
past few days in Austria in an eff
fort to interfere with the August l
demonstrations Houses were search
ed and much literature taken and
many arrests made
Several anti-War demonstrations
were held in Havana, Cuba. despite
the extreme terror Police fired
shots at one demonstration though
no one was hurt. At another DEM
onstration the workers shouted
Down with imperialist war" DE
fend the Soviet Union" They we're
finally dispersed by the police.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-03
BRASLAU AND ERROLLE SOLO
lists AT STADIUM THIS WEEK

Sophie Braslau and Ralph Errolle
will appear as solosists under Fritz
Reiner's offerings at the Stadium
this week. Programs of the week:
Tonight-Overtre to THE Bar
tered Bride" Smetana; New World"
Symphony. Dvorak; Espana, Cha
brier; Danse Macabre, Saint Saens;
Fetes, Debussy; La Valse, Ravel; Ro-
man Carnival, Berlioz
Tuesday-Program to be snnounc-
ed later.
nesday-AH- Wagner program:
Prelude to Act l of "Lohengrin', Pre-
lude to Act III of "Lohengrin", We
nusberg Scene from "Tannhauser" 4,
Kaiser March, Ride of the Walkure,
Waldweben from "Siegfried", Good
Friday Spell from "Parsifal', Prelude
to Act III of die Meistersinger'
Dance Of the Apprentices from die
Meistersinger" Finale from Act III
of die Meistersinger".
Thursday - Overture Secret of
Suzanne, Wolf Ferrari; Symphony
No. in A. Beethoven; La Clara
(soloist, Ralph Eerrolle) Casella;
Les Preludes, List
Friday-Prelude to "Khovantchi-
ma, Moussorgsky; FL Amor Brujo
(soloist, Sophie BraslaD, De Falla;
Classic Symphony, Prokofieff; Suite
from Harry Janos", Kodaly; Schatz
Waller from Gypsy Baron, Johann
Strauss; RakocSy March, Berlioz
Saturday-Song of the Volgs Boat
man, Fireworks, Pulcinela Suite for
small orchestra and Firebird Suite,
all by Stravinsky; Intermezzo and
Waltz from "Intermezzo" Salome'
Dance and Death and Transfigura-
ton, all by Strauss.
Sunday - "Egmont" Overture and
Symphony No in F, Beethoven;
Variations on a theme of Haydn,
and Symphony No 2 in D, Brahms.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-03
Depositors Hold Meets;
Two Are Broken as
Plan Aug. 18th March

Two meetings called by the United
Depositors Committee of the Bank
of the United States depoSitors were
brutally broken up and speakers ar
rested Thursday night in the Bronx
The meetings were held at Inter
vale Ave. and Freeman st. and
Southern Blvd. and Simpson ST., to
expose the robbery of the small de-
positors and the fact that nothing is
being done for them by the city or
state.
Police charged the meetings witch
out warnings, and called the police
wagon to arrest those who resisted.
The speakers were slugged.
Other meetings were held at Sec
ond Ave. and 10th st, Manhattan
and Saratoga and Pitkin AYES,
Brooklyn.
These meetings. are in preparation
for mass demonstration of deposit
tors before city hall on August 18th
where the demands Of the depositors
will be presented to the city and
state authorities.
The demands put forth by the
United Depcsitors Committee are;
that small depositors be paid in full,
that the state banking department
be prosecuted, that the rich stock
holders be assessed the full amount
Of the loss, and that the state guar
antee the deposits of the small de-
positors