The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-15

 crowd says they want the new shipyard; the other faction claims 1t will exhaust the labor supply and make 1t impossible for the submarine work to get help enough to continue In business on 8 profitable basis.
 In 6 letter to an editor, Q cer- tain citizen who lives near the Thames, cites Waterbury as an example of . town that attracts new industry and prospers there by. This writer claims that despite the several brass and metal-work- ing mills out here, we manage to extend the helping hand to any industry that cares to amble into the steaming valley of the Nau' gatuck, and that everyone seems to manage to get help enough to swing the job.
 The reason that Waterbury is such success as ail industrial center is that Q lot of small towns like South Britain grow first class laboring people and arc willing for them to drive over tho hill and grab off a weeks pay. We have an industry of our own, but we manage to help out the other fellows, too. When one of our trapmakers feels the urge to travel. nobody here sets up any howl about the loss. We go right back into the hills and get our- selves another man. If we cannot find him locally. we send out Of the State and bring over Q ship ment, because we know that he'll trade at McCarthy's Store and will add to the wealth of this village. We've tried to get folks around here interested in ship building. Down by the PWA bridge, the boat works is still operating and we feel that after the Ice jam at Pootatuck goes out, there should be an effort to start 0 few shipways down near Charley the Fishermaal's.
 Ships are going to win this war. Connecticut should build ships. If we cannot get the peo- ple over on the Thames to agree whether or not they want to grow up with the country and share the boom in ship building then we should send somebody to Wash. ingtOn and ask for . government shipyard right here on the Hou. satonic. We've got water deep enough to build anything in. Wv could lay the keels as good as any of those adxe hands over on the Thames. We could get out few OaIxen knees up here in the hills and provide lot of planking out of our own wOOdl0ts.
 This township has three rivers not just one. The Pomperaug and the Shepaug might develop into topnotch shipbuilding streams, with a little coaxing True, we'd have to arrange some way to get our ships over the Dam to the sea, but if we know Stevenson Dam and over Derby Yankees, that would also be 9 cinch. Hitler is sending subna- rines on flat cars to the Black Sea. Aren't Yankees heavier on planning than any square headst They always have been.
 Let's give this matter our whole hearted attention. We lest the shad fisheries because we were not awake. We lost thu fishing i'm the Naugatuck because we forgot that fishes like purt water. New, if we're quick or the trigger, maybe we can regain our lost maritime glory with 2 Housatonic shipyard that wlll curl hair. Anyway, we can prove that there's one community in Connecticut that win welcome 2 new industry and not shed salt tears when the hired men start fIocking toward . new payroll we just knew by experience shat the mere industry you have. the greater Che spread of the tax Sur den, Che easier the leaa fes all hamdn nM nknmMdl