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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-17

Hartford, Feb I7.-One of the links in the movement for the con- servation of all kinds of game and of the valuable song and insectivor- ous birds is the failure to control vermin or predatory animals and birds more thoroughly, in the opin- ion of the state board of fisheries and game. Considerable thought has been given to this question by the state officials, and the studies con- ducted in this and other states were recently summarized by John w. Tit comb, superintendent of the board
 In conservation parlance the term ''vermin'' embraces such animals collectively as are of conI- mon occurrence and difficult to con- trol, and the species which prey on the more desirable wild life, says Mir Titcomb. Included in this cate gory are the common house rat, gos- hawk, Cooper's hawk. sharp shinned hawk and the great horned owl. the hunting house cat the crow, and a variety of other animals and birds which do not occur frequently in this state.
 The fish and game commission en- deavors to keep the predatory wild life under control in all state game preserves and sanctuaries by grant ing permission to responsible trap pers to trap on the state forests and
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-17
The Building
 and Loan Assn
Held Annual Meeting Yes= terday at North Main
 Street Office

officers of the. Waterbury Build ing & Loan association. elected yes terday at the session held iii the new rooms at 63 North Main street, follow: President. Benjamin $. Coe; vice presidents, Clark H. w. Newton and Fred A. Jackie; secretary, Ar thur W. Nichols; assistant secretary, Miss M. A. White; treasurer, Harry l.. Platt; assistant treasurer, Harvey E. Riggs; attorne. and associate at torney, Judge T. V. Meyer and At torney Michael Galullo; directors, the president, vice presidents, treas nrer and attorney and Richard D. Ely, Albert Schumacher, Edson w. Hitchcock, Joseph Wilhelm, Star buck Sprague, George H. Wells Harry E. Dow,'J. Francis Smith, Ed ward H. Yates. Charles H. Chapman Roger $. Sperry. Leon H. French W. s. Jones, Fletcher w. Judson Ra,ph Paine.
 F;ed A. Jackie was elected vice president, this office being created last evening.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-17
Colds Lodge in 3 Spots
 Tapes" covers all

You must do three. things to check a cold. Any doctor will tell you that. But you need take only one preparation to do the work.
 All symptoms of a cold are ban ished by Pape's Cold Compound. It reduces inflammation and swelling of the nasal membranes. So breath ing becomes easy: discharge stops; the. head is cleared. "Pape's" en- courages precipitation. So that achy, feverish, weak feeling due to in-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-17
E. w. GOss Busy
 at Washington
Service of Waterbury Man Sought on Many lm-
 pOrtant Committees
Special to the Dernocrat)

Washington, Feb 17-Congress- man E. W. Goss of Waterbury has been named a member of the sub committee of the house military affairs committee. As member of this body he will make an inspection tour of West Point along with q senate group this summer.
 The congressional delegation will inspect the training school thoro- ughly and report back its findings when congress reconvenes.
 Congressman Goss was one of the house members who attended the funeral of Major-General Clarence R. Edwards at Arlington National cemetery.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-17

, active pores is f4quickly banished.
 ''Pape's kills cold germs; opens the bowels and removes germs and
 the acid wastes of colds from your system.
 Almost before you know what is happening. Pape's Cold Compound
 has you comfortable, we'll happy again. Appetite is encouraged; digestion assisted. Generous pack
 ages 35c all drug stores. Insist on "Pape'S"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-27
,,EN H0LBROOK SAYS IT, WILL MAKE WAR ON S0VIEIS
Fifteen Years AgO---and
Today

FIFTEEN today Mooney and Billings
thrown prison. charged with setting off bomb
San Fanccos antpatriotc against Preparedness
Day of hundreds held the minds of
the 1917.
Mooney and Billings held guilty by the capitalist They
capitalist
capitalism who led the American Federation of Labor
the
buried alive organizing the
Francisco resist capitalist against what
foreign foe" invariably accompanied with capitalist against
the workers this country
Fifteen the revolutionary rallied defend
Mooney Billings of
before the conscious their inter-
national of their revolution 1917
President Wilson investigate Hoover "Wckeham Commission"
repeated
capitalist endorsing the capitalist
makers the minds of the world The
the supported the last
the the textile and steel
mills openly than in the last
against
the this First! And let the
ring out the ruling class hear:
with the jailers of Mooney and Bllngsl
capitalist All the unemployed!
will strike
We demand freedom for Mooney and Billings!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-27
PAWTUCKET MILL
STRIKERS DEMAND
RIGHT TO PICKET
Demonstrate Before
Mayors Office as
Committee Goes in

PROVIDENCE, R. T., July 26-
Three hundred strikers of the Royal
Weaving Co. marched to the City
Hall at Pawtucket today at three
o'clock with the demands for the
right to picket. They protested
against the visits of the police and
federal authorities. They demanded
the withdrawal of the shoot to kill"
order and demanded the stopping of
police intimidation of workers. They
presented demand for the use of
the armories and other public build
ings for strikers meetings.
Among the other demands was the
following: The money that is now
being used to crush the strike should
be turned over to the unemployed
for unemployment relief.
The strikers are standing solid.
There will be more mass picketing
on Monday. The strikers here sent
greetings to their fellow workers in
Paterson who are spreading the gen.
eral strike in the silk industry A
broad united front movement is be-
ing organized against brutality To-
cally and in the state.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-27
Socialist" lntern'l Congress
Defends Dying Capitalism

gates of the colonial peoples we're
present. Inperialist flags of all the
nations were displayed on the plat
form.
Emile Vandervelde opened the
congress, referring to the intended
congress of the old International
which was to be held in Vienna
when war broke out, smashing the
International. He attacked Dictator
ships, particularly the proletarian
dictatorship in the Soviet Union and
praised the democracies of Great
Britain, France and Belgium. He
declared thanks to the socialists"
of the new democracies growing up
in Germany and Austria.
Defend Preparations System.
vandervelde regretted that the
London conference of inperiahsts
the socialists hope that
finance capital would assist Ger
many out of its difficulties. He
also defended the PREPARATIONS sys-
tenn and express petulance with
America, stating that it was the
chief gamer. He justified British
and French ornaments by pointing
out the existence of Americas arnla-
ments Vandervelde referred to the
German danger declaring that the
fears of the allies we're understand
able because Germany's capacities
for war is greater and would be tre-
increased by secret al
meaning the Soviet Union.
At the conclusion Of his speech he
INDUCED in the usual anti-war
phrases declaring that the next war
would not break the International.
After weak applause, the socialist"
mayor of Vienna, Seitz, followed.
Bored delegates left the hall in
droves resulting in hardly quorum
present to vote on the alteration Of
the agenda whose second point now
reads: the situation in Germany and
Central Europe and the struggle of
the workers for democracy. The
speaker remains Otto Bauer.
DeBrouckere will speak on disarm-
ament. Commission sessions will be
held Sunday and Monday morning.
The next plenary session opens Mon
day at p. m.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-27
POLICE ATTACK
BRONX ANTI-WAR
STREET PARADE
500 In Line of the
March Prepare for
August First

BRONX, N. Y.-Rallying 500 work.
ers in the line of march, Bronx
workers held an anti-war demonstra-
ton here Saturday, July rs, at 1888
Brooks Ave.
Assembling at 18TH ST., the pa
rade wound up Prospect ST., with
many following on the sidewalks.
When a Negro worker commenced
TO open the meeting at its stopping
point, a police sergeant gave the
signal for an attack upon the work.
ers, Lets start some fun and kill
a couple of them"
This brutal attack was met by the
resistance of the workers. One
woman worker had IL teeth knocked
out when she resisted an attack upon
herself.
Meetings to rally the Bronx work
ers for anti-war Gay, Aug. 1, will be
held at six places. Another meeting
will be held at 1870 Brook Ave.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-27
Hillquit Trial
to Show Role of
the Socialists"
Aid I.2perialist War
Mongers Against the
Workers. Republic

NEW YORK. - Morris Hillquit,
chairman of the American socialist
party, will be put on trial before a
jury of workers of New York by the
Communist Pa .ty at Central Opera
House, 9th 81 and Third Avenue.
on Thursday, July 30, at 7:3O p. m.
The crime for w1:ch Hillquit is be-
iag put on trial b. the Communist
ty is his GerGning the lawyer
for the Russian white guards, former
owners of the Baku oil fields. Hill
quit declared, before leaving for Eu-
rope, that is was purely a business
matter" This is lie - it is a po-
liticaI matter of the highest signif-
icance. 1t is the lining up Of the So
cialist party with the imperialists
for war on the Soviet Union. The
brief that Hillquit prepared for the
Russian white guards declares that
the Soviet Government "forcibly seiz-
ed and maintains" control of the oil
neldS, ana demandS Jnelr return.
Aid War Mongers
Hillquit is on trial not only as a
person, but as a leader of the So
cialist party and of the Second In
ternational, which is now in session
in Vienna, forging further war plans
against the Soviet Union and the
working class of the world. The
leadership of the American social
list party, Thomas. O'Neal and others,
apologize for Hillquit In the Bronx,
where motion at socialist party
branch was made for Hillquit's ex-
pulsion from the S. p, the entire
petty-bourgeois leadership joined the
fight to protect Hillquit. The So
cialist party is on trial in this trial
of Hillquit, and no left wingers" in
the socialist party will be able to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-27

Washington to demand that
the government and the oper-
ators recognize these repre-
sentatives of the rank and file
miners and not the strike
breaking machinery of the operators,
the United Mine Workers of Amer
lea. The representatives of the min
ers will serve notice on the operators
and the Hoover-Mellon government
at the joint conference of operators
and UNIV. bureaucrats which Presi-
dent Hoover has now authorized his
secretaries of Labor and of Com
merce to call, that the miners will
never recognize the Lewis controlled,
operator controlled UM.W.A as their
spokesman, that they will never rec
cgnize any agreement that the Lewis
gang and the operators put forth,
that they will meet any such agree
nnent with the greatest resistance.
The delegations sent by the miners
will come from the picket lines of
the struck area, from the United
Front Committees now rapidly
springing up in all parts of the coal
fields, and the National Unity Com
mittee of Action invites all rank and
file groups, even though not affili-
ated with Unity Committees yet. to
CONTINUED ON FACE THREEi
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-27
BULLETIN.

BRIDGEPORT, Ohio, July &C.
Robert Sivert and Rompa of the
National Miners Union were arrest
ed on the highway yesterday
charged with criminal syndicalism.
Bail was set at $4,000 today.
, PITTSBURGH, Pa, July 26.-"This
is war Donald Hart. assistant dis
trict attorney of Washington County
told the International Labor Defense
representative Bloom, who protested
the high bail set for Alfred Wagon
knecht, relief head, as an attempt to
cripple relief and starve the miners
back to work.
Wagenknecht was arrested on Sat-
urday while speaking at the Meadow
lands National Miners Union con-
ference on the relation of relief to
the strengthening of the picket lines
when state troopers and detectives
invaded the hall. All delegates we're
forced to remain seated and the
meeting proceeded while state troop
ers blocked the doorway and began
questioning the miners near the
doorway Wagenknecht informed the
meeting generally that no delegate
need give information that might re-
suit in his arrest or break up the
conference.
Immediately the troopers swarmed
down the aisles. Robert kirkpatrick,
sergeant Of the troopers, showed his
club into Wagenknecht's stomach. A
Ions argument ensued over Wagon
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-27
UTW PLOTS TO
STAB SPREAD N J
SILK STRIKE
United Textile Work
ers, Associated Call for
Sham Stoppage, Tues.
Play Mayors G a m e
United Front Comm.
To Tackle Dye Houses
This Week
Play Mayors G. a m e

PATERSON, N. j., July 26. -
With more than ITS silk shops out
last Friday under the leadership of
the United Front General Strike
Committee and the National Textile
Workers Union, the Paterson silk
strike continues to spread with a
drive on the dye houses planned for
this week.
simultaneously the officials Of the
United Textile Workers Union and
the Associated Silk are working
feverishly to head off the general
strike movement by calling sham
stoppage. The purpose of this is to
confuse the workers and betray them
into the hands of the silk manu-
facturers and the Mayors Concila-
tory Committee, all of whom are
working hand in hand
Already in many of the mills the
bosses are singing out weaker ele-
n1ents and telling them to organize
United Textile Workers groups in
the shops, even offering them the
use of their office for this purpose.
u. T. w. Plans Sellout Meet
The United Textile Workers Off
Gals arc calling an indoor mass
meeting Monday to line UP the
workers for their betrayal program
The United Front Strike Committee
will organize demonstration to ex-
pose the alliance between the United
Textile Workers, the Associated, the
Mayors Committee and the bosses in
an effort to impede the genuine
strike called by the United Front
Conference.
The United Front J>rAt Commit
tee will center its a01bvftaes OH the
dye houses this week. Ahesdy sew
eral dye houses have sent commit
tees to the Strike Committee urging
that the strike be spread to their
section of the industry.
Mass Picketing Monday
Monday morning will see mass
picketing before the most strategic
mills and the spreading of the strike
to other mills where the workers are
set to be called out.
Six weeks ago when the Allentown
strikers delegation we're in Paterson
the United Textile Workers and As
ISOLATED silk officials told them that
the Allentown strikers can expect no
help from them, that the Paterson
workers were satisfied and were not
.rn NrrNrtrrn m rAEp TuREEl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-27

States Steel Corporation, in scath-
ing extemporaneous address at the
thirty ninth general meeting of the
American Iron and Steel Institute at
the Hotel Commodore yesterday
morning. Mr.. Farrell asserted that
it was pretty cheap business"
William Green, president of the
A. F. of L., has often praised Farrell
and the policy of the United States
Steel Corporation in squeezing profits
out of its workers without a general,
open wage cut Green has helped the
United States Steel Corporation in its
present plan of cutting the wages
of thousands of workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-27
Workers Held on Ellis
Island Send Aid for
Heroic Striking Miners

NEW YORK.-Sixteen workers,
held on Ellis Island for deportation,
took up collection for the starving
mine strikers. Destitute after being
exploited by American capitalism
they gave what little they could. The
total collection amounted to 49, This
they sent with letter of solidarity
for the miners to the Daily Worker:
editor Daily Worker:
Dear Sir: We. deportees from
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-27

The steel workers must plan
strike now. They must join forces
with the miners who are fighting
against the starvation policy of the
steel corporation.
Steel workers. Organize mill COM
mitteesl Prepare to strike! Strike
against wage cuts Line up with the
Metal Workers Industrial League,
affiliated to the revolutionary Trade
Union Unity League which is leading
the strike of the textile workers in
Paterson and Rhode Island, and
which leads the strike of the 10000
miners IN Pennsylvania, Ohio and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-27

here yesterday"
This recalls the lying statements
CT the President of the United States
Steel Corporation, James A. Farrell,
when on May 22nd, he said the
United States Steel Corporation would
not cut wages. At that time Farrell
berated other steel companies for
cutting wages. The New York Times
of May % reporting the incident as
follows:
Wage reductions on top of part
time employment by some of the
large companies in the iron and steel
industry were denounced by James
A. Farrell, president of the United
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-27

West Virginia. Act now against the
wage cut!
This wage cut will probably 20
into effect on August 1st, the day
the Communist Parties and revo-
lutiOnary unions throughout the
world are calling on the workers TO
join in a mighty demonstration
against the war preparations,
against wage cuts, hunger and
misery.
The steel workers should join
their forces In a protest against
wage cuts and the war prepare
tons of the steel masters. All out
on August list!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-27

NEW YORK.-Tens of thousands
Of workers in the United States Steel
Corporation, will get their wages
slashed, according to an announce
ment in the Journal of Commerce
last Saturday Around 100000 work
ers are directly affected.
The United States Steel Corpora
ton was represented through its
president, James A. Farrell at
Hoover's "Qn strike, no wage cut"
conference in November, 1929 and
declared it would not cut wages
during the present crisis Green
promised to keep the workers from
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-27

The United States Steel Corpora
ton has been starving thousands of
miners in the bituminous coal fields
and is now bringing the steel workers
down to the same level of starvation
on the job as we'll as by wholesale
layoffs.
The wage cut will be publicly an
nounced on Tuesday, after meeting
of the Board of Directors of the
US. Steel Corporation in Wall st.
Dividends will be considered and
and there will be cut in dividends.
On the excuse of this cut, the big
steel corporation will slash wages.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-27

& Co. concern, which is in close
connection with President Hoover, is
extremely important as 1t marks a
new wave of mass wage cuts in all
basic industries.
The Journal of Commerce in its
headline announcing this huge wage
cut says, "U. S. Steel Directors Agree
on Wage Cut" and then goes on to
say:
"a majority of the board of di-
rectors of the United States Steel
Corporation now believe that the
time has come to make a moderate
reduction in wage rates, it was
learned in a well-informed quarter
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-27
Torture Negro CHOPPERS in Jail;
Hearing Tues; Demonstrate Aug.

DADEVILLE, Ala, July 26.-Fifty-
five Negro troopers Jailed in con-
nection with the murderous attempt
of the big landowners and their
police to break up the Share Crop
pers' Union have been subjected to
the most brutal torture in an effort
to make them reveal the names of
the leaders and other members of
the union. The prisoners have re-
manned stsunch in defense of their
union. They have one and all re-
fused to give any information TO the
landowners authorities.
1t is now definitely established
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-27

were JOlo ABOUT Jle German enemy
and must get ready soon to enter
battle against the Union of Socialist
Soviet Republics.
Follows Stimson Line.
Though the most blatant, out
right call for war, addressed to SOL
diers and by a high official in this
United States Army, General Hol-
brooks speech was not. an isolated
instance. 1t follows the call for war
against the U.S.SR. by U. S. ambas-
sador to France, Edge. 1t takes placs
on the day that Secretary of State
Stimson arrives in Germany to bring
German capitalism into the active
war front against the Soviet Union
war Soon"
without mincing any words. Gen.
eral Holbrook told the soldiers that
they will soon be called for war. He
said Russia would be the enemy"
After stating that the coming war
will attempt to destroy the workers
fatherland, the general told of the
imperialist plans to unite all the cap
italist countries for this war. He said:
I'VE will face new alignment In
the next war. We will forget our
foes of the World War and well
come them as allies. This Is not an
aIarmist theory. Foes of the recent
conflict will work together against
CONTINUED OH PAGE THREE,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-27
Prisoners Stand Firm;
Refuse Reveal Names
Of Others

that the number of the troopers held
in Jail is S.. Arrested during the
reign of terror launched by the land
owners and their police on Thurs
day, July 16, when a meeting Of the
union was surrounded by deputies
and shot up, the troopers are facing
framed-up charges ranging from
conspiracy with intent to murder to
carrying concealed weapons.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-27

striking and has kept to his scabbing
policy. Now the U. S. Steel Cor
poration will cut wages, reducing the
standard of living of its thousands of
slaves to below the present starva-
ton level.
United States Steel Corporation
workers have already had their wages
cut in roundabout ways, through
intensive speed-up, increase in hours,
as well as the stagger system and
part time employment. Now there
will be direct wholesale wage
slashing
The present action of the United
States Steel Corporation, a Morgan
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-27
TRY TO DISRUPT
TAG DAY FOR
MINERS RELIEF
Police and socialists"
Attack Collectors

NEW YORK.-True to their anti
working class role, Tammany Hall
and it's ally, the socialist" party,
tried with every means yesterday
and Saturday to disrupt the Tag
Days for Miners Relief held by the
Pennsylvania Ohio Striking Miners
Relief Committee. 1893 Broadway,
near 18th st.
Scores of workers carrying collec-
ton boxes we're bounded and threat
ened by the police and at least ten
were arrested, including one young
worker who was sent to children's
detention home.
When group of workers with
Tag Day collection boxes entered
Ulmer Park, where the Socialists"
were having picnic. they were at
tackled by the socialists" and, out
numbered a hundred to one, had
their collection boxes taken away
from them.
1t is expected that the socialists"
will use the money they stole from
the class-conscious workers to buy a
bouquet of flowers for the arch be-
trayer of the miners, John L. Lewis.
Although hundreds of workers
evinced their determination to help
the miners in their fight against
starvation by collecting money dur
ing the two Tag Days, these work.
ers must not think that they can
now afford to rest in their efforts.
The money collected during the
Tag Days is but drop in the bucket
compared to what the 10000 miners
and their families need to keep them
from starving
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-27
Jail Wagenknecht; Try to
End Strike by Blocking Relief

knecht's right to inform the strikers
of this legal right. When he got the
worst of the argument, the sergeant
of the state troopers terminated it
by arresting Wagenkencht on the
charge of obstructing legal procedure,
but the miners refused to allow the
conference to be broken up and bust
ness proceeded.
With the united front movement to
CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE)