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TO continue with the series
OF Russian dishes, here are
two more. The first is for
another kind of mushroom
soup-it was sent by Natalie c., and
she writes this apologize preface:
This is e more expensive dish and
I flayen's made it in long while"
Russian Mushroom Farley Soup
Put to soak overnight four or five
Russian dry mushrooms, and sep
arately half a pound or so (for small
family, quarter pound of dry coarse
barley.
Make stock as previously directed
for Stchee. (By boiling shin bone
cut Of meat and marrow bone, with a
Few black peppers, few leaves Of
bay, one onion cut in four, q sprig
parsley, leaves or stalks Of celery, two
potatoes, one carrot, last two diced,
z, turnip, leeks, or any similar as
sortnnent of available soup green's.
When meat is cooked, strain all
through colander. To the broth add
the soaked barley, which has been
washed and drained, also the mush-
rooms chopped very fine. The juice
IN which the mushrooms have soaked
should be strained through a cheese
cloth and also added to the soup.
Now season, and cook all very SLOW
III, stirring to prevent barley from
sticking, until barley is done,
PLAT
This is q dish made with lamb or
mutton. (Shoulder is okay for IT'D
Using about a pound and half, cut
the meat from bones. Boil the bones
In about pint of water, half an
hour or little less. Strain out bones.
Brown the pieces of meat in butter
or fat with small chopped onion.
season. Pour over this the broth
ulixed with about D fourth cup of
ce: cook very slowly without stir
ring until meat and rice are done.
Would suggest cooking over one Of
those asbestos mats, or baking, to
lessen danger of burning0
"A pilaf can also be made with
rocked leftover meat and cooked rice.
Cook or partly cook the rice, then
sook together with some meat stock.
Grown the meat (cut in pieces in
,utter or fat, with chopped onion:
.ut these into the middle of the pan
containing the rice. "a cupful Of
.teWcd tomatoes may be mixed with
Re rice.) Then stew or bake slowly
aatjl dry enough to turn out on
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-21

by Soviet Worker Correspondent
Dear Comrades:
I have only Just returned from the
| Tartar village Of T1merlik where l.
in my turn, spent my leave Of abb
sence. The Tartars, as you undoubt-
edly know. were one of the last peo-
pies to be made subject to the Tsars
regime.
A few years ago the inhabitants of
the village of Timerlik organized a
kolhoz which they dedicated in the
name of Karl Marx. When I arrived
there the members Of the kolhoz were
finishing up the last details of the
work of gathering in the harvest
And the harvest was fine one. The
workers associated in the Karl Marx
kolhozs harvested 80 pood 1920 lbs)
to the ilectare (312 acres).
Galiahnetov, in whose home ]
lived, an old man nearing the seven
ties, never remembers such q plentiful
harvest as this years. "I don't re-
member" he said to me, when our
earth has given so much grain. And
how could it have yielded such har-
vest in the past when the best earth
was owned by the big landlords? /.
"Out on the landlords fields the
labor was forced and slaviSh. In the
koIhoz each man works under his
own initiative In the time of the
landlord we titled with the old, out
Of date Russian plough, and we gath
cred in the harvest with the sickle.
"And now2 Eighty two-edged
ploughs plough up the land of the
kolhoz. Out on the fields are working
the seeding machine and the cutting
machines. Instead of in September, In
August now, the earth is turned over
and allowed to rest during the win
ter months, after wflach it is again
brought under cultivation in May
When the plan only called for 5000
the workers in the kolhoz brought
5000 carloads of manure to fer.
tilize the land.
Invest 1z5,O0O Rubles in Truck
Gardening
what tomatoes, cabbages and Gu
cumbers grew this yearl Cabbages
weighing from 10 to Is pounds, on.
ions the size Of ones fist, and to-
matoes from 30 to 20 on a bush
Twenty seven hectares were taker
up in truck gardens. From their reve.
nues the kolhoz workers were in 6
position TO invest 175,o0o rubles ir
truck gardening this year."
Old Galiahmetov led me to Ga.
lev Gassan, a former day 1aborer ir
the fields of the landlords. Once he
Gassan, had been a poor orphan. Hi;
family had always lived on the border
of starvation. Gassan joined the kol.
lloz, began to work in the collective
and at new rate Of speed. And nov
you would not be able to recognize
the former laborer, Gassan.
From his income last year he wa.
able to build a good hut; and hi
painted the floors. He bought a COW
sheep, and geese. He even managed
a sewing machine, a looking glass anc
a clock. Gassan's wife, Mensafa
wears a new dress cut in the style o.
the latest city fashion.
In the evening Gassan drinks tex
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-21
Small Upstate
Milk Dealers
Hit by Crisis
By a Farmer Correspondent

ALBANY, N. Y;-When, about 10
wars ago, Albany passed stricter
laws about pasteurization Of milk,
some OF the peddlers Of milk who were
not strong enough to erect plants
got their merchandise from bigger
concerns, and were able to make a
living. Conditions have been getting
harder and harder for these small
dealers. Last week, for instance, one
pasteurization plant took the bust
ness over of three of those small deal
ers, whose receipts were too small to
get along and pay their debts.
The city of Albany has nearly 5000
men on the list for work by the G.
w. A.. Only little more as 1000 are
working. The rest are waiting at
home, filled up with good promises.
My congratulations, with our new
press. May she find work till capa-
city. Our Daily" is the most trust
worthy paper I ever laid hands on
/ would not miss it. Only, under cir
cunstances as they are now, it Is
a great trouble to know where to get
the money to pay.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-21
Government Worker
Spurns Chest Drive;
Gives $50 to Daily
Washington, D. G.

Washington, D. G.
Daily Worker:
Dear Comrades:
They've been running the
Community Chest drive here, all
the government departments.
using all the high powered ora
tors from General johnson down
to bulldoze the workers in max
ing voluntary contributions OF
three days salary to the Com
munity chest. AL the unem-
ployed here are supposed to be
on relief or public works and
the money is supposedly used for
hospitals, orphanages, etc. The
community chest, however, does
not distribute 1t directly, but
turns 1t over to the American
Legion. the Salvation Army and
similar Charitable friends" Of
the working class. I prefer
choosing my own organization,
so here's thirty dollars for the
Daily Worker financial drive.
"A Government Employee.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-21

meetings, and tried to establish an
organization committee in order to
prepare for the strike. However,
these workers insisted that the Ex-
Servicenaen's League and the union
should give them fifty men TO go
around pulling workers off trucks,
declaring the strike in this way.
Naturally, this is not our policy,
which is that strikes must be pre-
pared through organization, and
that the workers at the proper time
must be the ones to decide the
strike. A number of these men also
worked in cne-man shops and Com
rade Laut informed then, that be-
fore these one-n,an shops could be
taken ont on strike and won, It
would be necessary to do organiza-
ton wor. In a few Of the larger
shops, so that the strike could be
effective
The reason that tbs workers went
to the A. r. Of L. Is because they fell
for the propaganda Of Thompson
who told them that the bosses would
sign with the A. r. Of L. without a
strike being necessary, and also be-
cause the bosses told them that they.
would sign with the A. F. Of L. and
picketing and other strike activity.
organizations, would have to do the
However Conrade Laut, at those
particular meetings, did not con-
vince the workers that they must be
the ones TO go with the union, to
participate in the organization work
and that they together with other
union members and workers of other
not with us. Not having been with
these workers for sufficient length
Of time, we were not In position
to influence them and those work
ers who demanded that the union
and the aEx-Servicemen should or
ganize a committee of fifty to pull
drivers off the trucks without any
previous work, took the workers to
the A. r.. of L., and naturally they
were sold out.
We even explained to them that
il was through such methods that
the bosses had succeeded in franz
ing up, on serious charges, twelve
Of our union workers only a few
months ago. However all Of this
was to no avail.
This does not mean that we have
given these workers up, by any
means. In fact at present we are
conducting some work amongst
these workers In Local 202 and one
shop has already been signed with
our unioT
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-21

eight hours per day for the miserable
food given them.
''They perform all the necessary
work, such as digging UP sugar beets,
loading, trucking, ETC., delivering the
product to the Michigan Sugar Co.
They do not receive one cent OF pay.
If they don't work fast enough, they
are kicked right out without any
ceremony.
''The Volunteers OF America are
known to receive S. per head for
each man thus furnished to the sugar
refinery"
II this is not slavery or forced
labor, what else could it be?
The capitalist press of this country
accuses the Soviet Union Of impos-
ing forced labor upon its people. This
is merely done to camouflage its own
inhuman, vicious practices upon the
helpless, starving populace.
The writer has spent one year in
the Soviet Union and found the people
happy and contented. Everybody has
Job there. In my extensive travels
have never seen or heard OF any
such thing as forced labor.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-21
- Doctor
LuHinqeh
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specialists than the habit of eating
must brought to those Of the list
generation.
The only people, besides the bran
manufacturers, who are advocating
and prescribing the indiscriminAte
use of bran, are amateur dieticiaps.
food faddists, ilaturopaths and plain
ignorant cranks.
In order to obWate the scientific
physicians objection to bran, Gen.
eral Foods are now advertising Posts
80 per cent Bran Flakes" This, Of
course, cuts down the roughness Of
the product to 40 per cent, but 1t Is
still liable to irritate sensitive storn-
achs particularly those who are al
ready suffering from indigestion, mild
gastritis or beginning gastric (ston-
ach) ulcers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-21
Half of Pear Crop Thrown to
Hogs While Jobless Starve
Owner of Farm Has to Work AS Laborer in
Orchard to Make Ends Meet

Pears are the principal fruit grown
here in commercial quantities. About
so per cent of the crop was culled
out to keep it off the market, con-
sequently the hogs of the Rogue River
valley enjoyed fruit by the carloads,
while the unemployed went without
The fruit pickers themselves will
feel the pinch of want.
The school teachers OF Medford
were hired for a four and half
month contract pending the outcome
Of the tax collections, and at that
the warrants are hard to cash.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-21
DOING PARTY WORK

In 1881 I came in contact with
OLA, who set me on the road to
correct living snd helped me to get
the most vital thing back, energy,
with which to carry on my work.
Through her I met B. A. And then
the discussions began!
Everytime We got together, 1t was
vital discussion. This has been going
on now for these last couple of years
(Which was interspersed with not
only their contributing, for instance
substantially to the Hunger March
to Washington, clothing and money:
but B. A. actually arguing and dis
tributing our Party pamphlets among
workers, friends and strang-
ers). On Friday, Dec. 8, 7 was asked
to be their guest without fail.
When I arrived there was room
full Of people to begin with. On the
wall was picture, covered up, OLA
said. mo doubt you are all wondering
just what it is" She unveils it and
we see before ourselves picture
syn1bolizing OUR ideasI This, in It.
oSAAy woo q H4CdCd1Ab OIL JllcC 1UI IilG
but then the next thing deeply
touched me. OLA. continued by say
ing that this picture is being pre-
sented to me as a gift from them in
appreciation for my courage On being
a Communist, this picture is pre-
sented to their friend, the Commu-
nistl
In that moment it flashed upon
me, that here, this worker had gone
not only to the exertion of doing
something, but spending money for
the material, inviting all his friends
that he may state, openly, frankly
that he is deeply sympathizing with
the leadership Of the Communist
Party, that he wished to align himself
Enthusiastically with the revolutionary
workers! Sari
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-21
HIMSELF FRAMED, CALLS FOR
MORE ENERGY TO FREE
SCOTTSBORo 9
Woodbury. County Jail.
Sioux City, Iowa.

woodbury. County jail.
Sioux City, Iowa.
Conrade Editor:
| would like to say that the Daily
Worker has improved greatly.
I would like very much to be out
at this time with every worker who
realizes the necessity Of and the
political Importance of the fight for
those nine Negro boys in Alabama,
and I appeal as worker in Jail,
charged with Criminal Syndical-
ism, to even use more energy and
effort and revolutionary action in
forcing the numbering masters Of
Alabama to release these nine inno-
cent boys.
Workers-colored and wnite-our
time is short If we allow this bar
barous Fascist plundering Of our
workers rights to continue. 1t is
our duty as workers to organize
with each other. Break the bonds of
slavery that this despotio capitalist
society now forces on US.
Workers would you want to be
electrocuted, legally 1ynched, for
riding freight trains.
Then, comrades, wake UP. Put on
your revolutionary banners of Marx
and Leiain and get out Of that shell.
Comrades, cease being afraid of be-
ing called Communists. Be proud
Of tt--but do not puff up over it
Being Communist Is organizing
and leading your fellow workers
paving the way to Soviet America
Workers, the Scottsboro Boys
must not diet
Norman Ha1eltigg.
(Stg. suthorized.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-21
Letters from Our
Readers
ONLY 30 PER CENT HAVE BANK
ACCOUNTS

ONLY ~ REh CHNI HAVE DAMN
ACCOUNTS
Brooklyn, N. Y.
Editor, Daily Worker;
On Dec. you printed the follow
ing item:
Since 1928 the number of savings
banks depositors has been declining,
so that today only 81 per cent Of the
population has any savings account
as compared with Al per cent four
years ago. The average account is
now $62 per person as compared with
1882 then.
AT no time did more than Al per
cent have any deposits at all"
1 agree with the value of the aver
age account but I cannot see how 81
per cent of the population have saw
Gngs accounts, because there are peo-
pie who have more than one bank
book. Even some workers who still
have little money have in certain
cases two accounts.
This does not mean that they have
so much money that they cannot
have this amount on one book instead
of two. The people have done this
during the last four or five years be-
cause one could never tell which
bank would close.
It was for this purpose that some
people divided their few dollars into
two accounts so in case one bank
closes they should at least have SO
per cent Of their savings left
But having two bank accounts to-
day is no longer security" especially
since the invention of bank holidays.
Now taking into consideration that
some people have from two to five
bank accounts the percentage of peo-
pie having savings accounts will fall
far below the "31 per cent" probably
to 20 per cent. B. N.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-21
Armed Guards Compel
so Strike Leaders to
Leave Camp
By PAUL STEELE

3N HAOA = AAEAAE
TUCSON, Ariz., Dec. 20.-RevoltIng
against unbearable conditions and
attempts at fascist prison discipline,
$50 youth. ranging in age from Is to
Z as. went on strike at the Federal
Transient Camp, three miles north OF
Tucson. They demanded recognition
OF their union, a minimum wage OF
SIS a week for campers, setting Up
of stoves in the barracks as protec-
ton against cold which made sleep
at night next to impossible, an res
ending of the order cutting down to-
bacco allowances from three times to
twice weekly.
They also demanded the resnstate-
ment OF the delegation which had
travelled to Nogales to investigate
conditions there and had been
busted" when it returned, and an
end to the discipline, which the d.
rector, an army man, was trying to
impose.
The resentment of the young work
ers, many of them homeless, against
q series of commands issued by the
camp director, resulted IN the for
nation OF a union.
The campers were young workers
who had been forced by the crisis to
leave home and take to the road.
They are gradually being forced into
these concentration camps, by propa-
ganda now, but after Jan. l, 1884,
according to those in charge, by force.
II Is claimed that the militia will be
called out if necessary to force young
workers into these camps now being
built throughout the country.
Although there we're stoves stored
IN the camp storeroom, the director,
Richardson. refused to let them be
set up in the barracks, although he
admitted that it was colder in the
barracks at night, than it was out
size.
No Pay
In most Of these concentration
camps. the magnificent N. r. A. sal
airy Of ninety cents a week is paid
But Richardson and his superior
State Director Murphy refuse to pay
q single cent to the workers. some
Of them working at skilled trades ten
hours daily, They evidently put the
money IN their own pockets.
When the campers began to run
away via the back fence route, Rich
ardson ordered the guards, campers
themselves, to take clubs and knock
them on the head If they try to es-
cape" Ru1nors began flying that the
camp was to be surrounded by cleo
trifled barbed-w1re. On Friday the
tobacco allowance was cut from three
TO two sacks weekly. The food, pre-
viously fair, due to militant protests
by the campers, began TO drop of
alarmingly in quantity and quality
The workers decided that something
mad to be done, and a meeting OF
the SPECIAL DUTY squad was called
in their separate barracks, which was
made of adobe and therefore fairly
warm at night.
The Special Duty squad are camp
! ers with special jobs: maintenance
men, doctors, kitchen squad, cooks
iishwashers, stenograp pliers, guards
and barracks captains, in short, al
the key men of the camp who were
given petty privileges which was sup.
posed to make them think themseIve,
better than the rank and file camper.
who did pick and shovel work. They
had their own barracks which Wert
warm, ate at their own table anc
we're about the only ones who wer,
2 sra1itted to leave the camp to gc
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-21
NOTE:

We publish letters from farmers,
agricultural workers, and cannnery
workers every Thursday. These
workers are urged to send us let
ters about their conditions Of work,
and their struggles to organize.
Please get these letters TO lis by
Monday Of each week.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-21
Forced Labor on
Plantations Of the
Michigan Sugar Co.
fBy a worker Correspondent

DETROIT, Mich.-Ihe Michigan
Sugar Co., Lansing, Mich, isobtain-
ing large numbers of men from the
Volunteers of America OF that city.
A man whom the Flint police ar
rested at Flint Jungle" related
his experiences in Lansing is as fol-
lows:
Starving men come to the Volun-
teers OF America for something to
eat and are sent In truckloads to the
beet fields and compelled 10 work
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-21

Send FIFTEEN CENTS (15c) in
coins or stamps (coins preferred) for
this Anne Adams pattern. Write
plainly name. address and style num-
Der. BE SURE TO STATE SIZE.
Address orders to Daily Worker
Pattern Department, 243 West nth
Street, New York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-21
lRY a Farnner Correspondentl

CENTRAL POINT, gon.-please
find enclosed so cents. Wish I could
make it $50, I live on fine five
acre farm. irrigated, on which have
not been able to pay the interest
and taxes this year.
The market for vegetables and
berries Is very poor. The hens just
about make their keep. By working
in the pear orchards I earned about
s95, and by trading produce for other
necessities we are trying to get along.
At that we are better off than those
who own large tracts of land.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-21
Can You Make 'em
Yourself?

Pattern 1877 is available In sizes
81, So, SO, 40, AZ, A, 46, 48 and so.
Size SO takes "a yards SO inch cloth.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-21
Helping the Daily Worker
Through DR.. Luttinger

Contributions received to the credit
OF DR.. Luttinger in his Socialist COM
petition with Michael Gold, Edward
Newhouse, Helen Luke, Jacob Burck
and Del to raise $1,000 in the $4,000
Daily Worker Drive:
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Farmers Conference
a Big Historical Event
By a Farmer Correspondent

LOUISVILLE, KY went to the
Chicago Conference and it was the
most wonderful meeting that had
ever attended because 1t was COM
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-21
A CHARGE AND A DEFENSE.

Daily Worker:
What kind Of an organizer Is Laut
OF the Food Workers Industrial Union
anyhow? When dairy drivers begged
him to organize them, they were told
by this supposed leader that they
must first show him demonstration
of their strength. Instead Of agitat-
ing among the workers who we're still
dubious as to the possible success OF
a union, he left all the organizational
work to the men who had come to
him asking for help. OF course, the
inevitable happened. The A. r. of
l.. got wind of the preparations and
published an ad calling for a general
meeting at the Forward Building I'M
der the leadership of Thompson who
is operating under the raoketeering
influence Of Local 202 of the Inter
national Brotherhood of Transfers.
Now all these drivers have joined this
famous sell-out urfon and another
splendid opportunity to form revo-
lutionary union was lost through the
nlisleadership of Laut. Comrades, we
must go forward and see that these
workers are not sold out Expose the
inisleaders who throw away chances
like these. "A Driver.
STATEMENT OF THE FOOD
WORKERS INDUSTRIAL UNION.
The letter Of the worker is not a
true statement of facts in the situ
alton. Comra6e Laut had a meet
ing with these workers, In fact two
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-21

posed Of real dirty farmers And
the welcome and the n,ingling Of
the workers OF Chicago, and the
farmers and their wives from 40
states was a historical event the
like OF which had never happened
before in this or any other country.
I hitch-hiked to Chicago after
being unable to get anyone from
Kentucky to go with me.
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The Daily Worker fights Faseisnn.
Fight for the Daily with yoar
dollars. Rush al funds to save the
Daily"