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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-12

peel
 Remove the seeds from the dates and boil dates. sugar, water. or- ange juice and grated orange peel until soft paste is formed.
 cup shortening
 1 cup brown sugar
 Sh cups flour
 2 teaspoons baking powder
 H teaspoon salt
 x cup water
 2 cups corn flakes
 Cream the shortening, add the sugar and beat thoroughly. Add the flour, which has been sifted with the baking powder and salt, then the water and last the corn flakes. Roll the cookie dough thin (about 3-16 inch thick) and cut into rounds. Spread one round with the date mixture and put a second round on top, pressing the edges together. Bake on greased baking sheet in moderate oven (375 degrees F.) for 15 to 20 min- utcs. Provides three dozen F. inch cookies.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-12
SATURDAY

Oysters Baked with Macaroni
 Cook 1 pint macaroni broken in small pieces in boiling salted water for 15 minutes. Drain and blanch. Drain 1 pint oys- ters. In buttered baking dish place layer of macaroni. dot with salt, pepper. dot with but ter and add Ia cup top milk or cream: cover with a layer of oysters. season. r peat with macaroni and oyster until dish is filled. using cup of milk or cream for the dish. Sprinkle with buttered crumbs and bake covered for 1-2 hour; uncover and brown.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-12
A Treat For Each Day
MONDAY

A delicious Mixed Fruit Cock tail made with teaspoons pine apple juice, teaspoons cherry juice. l. teaspoon lemon juice and orange juice to fill cup. Chill thoroughly: garnish with halves of red. white and purple graeps from which the seeds have been removed. Serve with this cup tiny cheese clSps or cheese logs.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-12

are well supplied with the correct food for renewed energy that will carry them on through the rest of their school day.
 The noon-day luncheon for chill dren under teen age is tremen- dously important. It need not De lavish, but should be ample, wellA balanced, nourishing. Such dishes as these are inexpensive, yet filled with elements needed:
 Tomato Delight
 Slice large ripe, fire tomatoes, dice 1 ripe pepper, roll F cup of coarse cracker crumbs, grate A
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-12
FRIDAY
Hot Ginger Bread Iced with
 Cream Cheese

Hot Ginger Bread Iced with
 Cream Cheese
 Cream together 1-2 cup sugar and 1-3 cup butter; add 1 cup molasses and l beaten egg. Sift twice 3 cups pastry flour. 4 tea spoons baking powder. 1-2 tea spoon soda. 1-2 teaspoon salt. l-2 teaspoon each of cloves and cinnamon. Add to first. mixture alternately with 1 cup milk. Bake in 2 shallow pans in moderate oven for 80 to 40 min utes. While still warm. spread with cream cheese and send al once to table.
 SUNDAY ,~
 Arabian Cream for Dessert: Have ready made l-2 cups of fresh strong coffee. Pour in dou- -ble boiler and in 1t dissolve 2 tablespoons granulated gelatin. Beat 2 eggs yollis with 3 table spoons sugar and add 1-2 cup milk. stir into hot coffee and cook until it forms soft cus- tard. Remove from fire and fold sin stifflv beaten egg whites; flavor with 1-2 teaspoon vanilla. Beat well and set away until half congea1ed: beat again and " let harden. Serve. with whipped cream sprinkled with chopped nuts.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-12
THURSDAY

Shrimp and Celery Soup. Scala cups rich milk: dissolve chicken bouillon cubes in 1 cup boiling water, add cup diced celery and 1-2 cup diced potato and cook 5 minutes. Add to hot milk, together with cup diced shrimp: simmer for minutes, season with salt, cayenne and slightly thicken with 3 table spoons butter and ? tablespoons flour. blended. Sprinkle with minced parsley. and serve with hard crackers floating on top.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-12
TUESDAY

A Surprise Dessert of vanilla ice cream in cubes served with hot chocolate waffles. Quick waffle recipe: Beat together 2 eggs. 1 tablespoon sugar. 1 ta- blespoon melted butter: add Ia cup evaporated milk and 2-3 cup water. Sift together 1 1-2 cups pastry flour. teaspoons baking powder. 1-2 teaspoon salt. Add to first mixture and fold in 2 tablespoons melted sweet chocolate. Bake on hot waffle iron.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-12

rious fiavors and textures to pro- duce a new re- suit.
 We resort to t more frequently in the : prepara- tion of vegetables than ip any other group; and mo- where is it more c e arly needed. For all our pre- tentions a b o,u t being 5 i m p l e. straight = forward souls, our appe- tite betrays us. The plain" dish soon h e co m Q q
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-12

truly appreciate their appearance r e g u l ly at b r e a k f a s t or l u n cheon. And though they seem acceptabl eenough in their more us- usual forms, it is when some new
 combination or new method of cooking them is discovered that we are most fa- vorably impressed hIy fhA~a
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-12
TABLE DECORATIONS

Use dark blue glass bowl for scarlet peoples from your gar-. den as centerpiece for, an all- white table. Spears of blue del- phinium will increase the beau ty and grace of this decoration.
 Wild red tiger lilies, g pale grey linen cloth and yellow glass or pottery make a striking com bination for an informal dinner or luncheon, &E ,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-12
WEDNESDAY

A New Salad Dessert. Have already prepared a baked apple for each person: slightly hollow out top part and fill with little balls of cream cheese rolled in ground nuts. Place each apple in a nest of lettuce: serve with a creamy boiled dressing to which has been added. a little chopped candied gnger. (Note. Apples will not split their skins while baking if an incision is made all around them at the halfway point. using a sharp fruit knife.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-12

SCHOOL WOrk, ana must constantly be T epl e nished by food that sup plies the need of the hour.
 Mothers whose c h i l d r e n may ocme home from school for lunch are e s p e c i ally fortunate in that
 they have in this hour an in- valuable oppor- tunity to see that Ar reALf '
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-12

5ss Of all the different methods to 1 achieve distinction in recipes and
 menus, the easiest and most elastic
 is perhaps that of combining va
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-12
AT THE CHILDREN'S TABLE
AT THE CHILDREN'S TABLE E---- GOOD LUNCHEON DISHES
 FOR ACTIVE LITTLE FOLKS
By MARY HOPE NORRIS -
 Founder-Mothers' Radio Round Table

pound of snappy cheese. Tn but tered baking dish place 1 row of a sprinkling of the cracker crumbs and cheese. Season well with pep per, salt and little sugar. Repeat until the dish is filled. Pour cup of rich milk, sprinkle top with but tered crumbs and place in the oven to bake.
 LIMA BEAN CHOWDER
 cup dried limas
 6 cups cold water
 2 tablespoons butter
 15 cup sliced carrots
 # cup sliced onions
 N cup sliced potatoes
 4 cup rice
 1 pint milk ii
 salt and pepper to taste
 Soak lima beans in cold watel over night; drain and add 3 quartz cold water. Reserve l cup beansS put the rest through colander or sieve, and return to liquor. Add carrots and onions and when these are cooked, add potatoes, rice and butter. When rice is well cookeds season with pepper and salt and the whole lima beans. Bring to boiling point and serve. If you are making chowder for the children,s lunch only, half the amounts given will be sufficient for four.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-12

Eggs are, of course, one of the steadiest of the year-round foods, and enjoy perpetual season. But we ned cool weather to make us
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-12

Every waking moment of the pre-school and school child is filled with activity. Energy is law IshIy expended in play and in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-25
BY a Worker Correspondent

DETROIT, Mich. - In Detroit,
frank x. (double-crossD Martel, the
local president of the A. F. of L.
made the following statement in the
Dec. 7 issue of the Detroit Labor
News (exemplifying how these So
called labor papers are generally
propaganda sheets for the big
shots:
THE A. F. of L. Trade Union
Conference for Unemployment In
surance and Relief, of Detroit, is the
brain child of one, R. M. Kron, erst-
while trade-unionist, who was re-
moved from his Office in a local
union, and rejected as a delegate to
the Central Labor body because Of
his proven Communistic activities" "
The facts are that R. M. Kroon,
Secretary Of the Detroit Committee,
WAS ELECTED SECRETARY OF
HIS LOCAL UNION LAST JAN
URAY WITHOUT OPPOSITION
and is still in Office. He was NOT
rejected from the Central Labor
body in the manner Martels state
ment implies but was arbitrarily de-
MED a seat by Car Martel AFTER
Martel had been instrumental in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-25

Red Rubber districts Of the Belgium
Congo, and no matter how low a
native was in the adobe shacks in
the city he would not leave for the
horrors of the rubber fields.
The only modern conditions"
that were left was for the white
man" that was sent out from the
States, and the occasional white
man" that the Ford agent got from
Para. The pay that they were Of
fering for white help who formed
the foreman class was 20 Milreas
per day, and if you think that living
in the jungles with fever and the
abnormal conditions that exist there
is fair wages then I can say that
the Americans and English that
were on the beach in the coast
cities did not. These plantations
are right on the Equator, the heat
being oppressive, the death toll
high, and the cost of imported ar
ticleS (Which include practically
everything for use) is also high.
So, unless the conditions have i'm
proved during the past two years
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-25
MdrteL Resorts to SANDER
In Fight on Workers. Bill

having charges preferred against
Kroon in his own local, which
charges were practically lanughed
out of court.
The local of which Kroon is sec
rotary is one Of the largest in the
state, and the president Of this local
is also a delegate to the above
named committee for Unemploy-
ment Insurance and Relief. The
local is large enough to have seven
teen delegates to the Central Body,
all Of whom threatened to withdraw
when Kroon was denied a seat Che
having been officially elected by his
local to represent them in the cen
trail Body.
Martel, like Green, would like to
expeI Kroon for fighting for non
contributory unemployment insur-
ance, but in some cases these
crooked gentlemen have to draw in
their horns and be content with
hoodWinking the rank and file
through such misleading sheets as
Labor, in connivance with the rail-
labor-misleader, who have also
played their part in sabotaging I'M
employment insurance and old age
pensions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-25

Editors note: The above letter is
fine picture of the oppression and
exploitation that the Negro people
in this country have to undergo.
Still, there are certain features of it
that require Qualification.
The terror and hatred directed
against the Negro people is not re-
suit of any natural inclination on
on the part of the whites, 1t is a
hatred that is fostered and Guilt
waited by certain section of the
white population in the interests of
that section-the white capitalists
and large landowners. They foster
the division between the Negro and
white workers because through it
they can maintain their super-rob-
berry of the Negro people and the
exploitation of both the Negro and
the white workers, and keep the
workers from uniting in a struggle
for better conditions. This must be
borne in mind. The hatred of the
Negro people must not be directed
against ALL whites, but together
with the white workers, it must be
directed against the white ruling
class, the enemy of the entire work.
ing class, Negro and white.
1t must be frankly admitted that
great sections of the white toiIers
have been taken in by the poison
propaganda of the white rulers
through the schools, press, movies,
radio and pulpit. The Communist
Party is the only party that con-
duets serious and consistent fight
against this poison In the ranks of
the white workers. 1t has made
great Roadway in this fight, and has
succeeded even in the South to raise
the banner of joint struggle of Ne
gro and white toilers against the
bosses and rich landlords. They
have gene even further than that,
and have all over the world involved
millions of white workers In the
struggle against lynching and OPP
preston of the Negro people. They
do this not on the grounds of
pure" humanitarianism, but be-
cause they realize that this unity is
necessary in the struggles of the
working class for better conditions
and the ultimate overthrow of the
present system of robbery and op-
preston.
The above letter was written by a
Negro worker who is but one month
in the Communist Party. Thousands
like him have come over to the
ranks of the revolutionary move
ment with the same misgivings, the
same mistrust of the white workers.
This is but natural outcome of
the century-old oppression and dis
elimination the Negro people have
undergone in this country. 1t places
upon the shoulders of the white
class conscious workers the great
responsibility of winning the con-
fidence of these Negro workers on
the basis of a determined struggle
for Negro rights, and thus win them
over as fighters in the ranks of the
great revolutionary army struggling
to liberate ALL the toilers from
the yoke of capitalism,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-25
Negro Replies to Hearst on Race Indictment

Dec. 16 said Communist propaganda
is stirring up racial difference.
I will tell you some things that
happened in my life that the Com
munists didn't have to tell me
about.
Childhood Experiences
In the first place I was one of
the first poor unfortunates to be put
in the Pennsylvania Children's Aid
Society at the age of 7. I was bound
vat, that means slavery, until the
age of 81 in which time I was to
work for my board and clothes. I
ran away a couple of times, but they
caught me and brought me back,
and whipped me same as they did
the slaves.
At first I helped the madam who
was one of those lovable ladies from
the South, who was always ex-
planning to me the inferiority of the
colored race, and how they treated
the slaves in the South, which was
very inspiring to me. Well, I stood
her as long as I could, and then
rebelled. She said I was sassy and
ungrateful.
Then the boss put me to grinding
feed in the mill at the age of
eleven. He had me running the
mill till and 4 o'clock in the
morning, That saved him from hir-
ing man. All this time I was
supposed to go to school three
months year, but there was no.
body to check up on the boss.
Well, I was rescued from that
mess by mother. She put me to
work for wages at the age of Is on
a farm for the magnificent sum of
IS per month, which pay neither
nor my mother ever did get
chased me away with a revolver.
When I went after it, the boss
These are few of my childhood
experiences in free America. Since
I have grown up they have refused
to serve me in fifteen cent hash
house in New York. They also told
me in 1907 that it would cost me
dollar for a ten-cent glass of
whiskey, threw me out of a theatre
because I wanted to sit downstairs
AS union man in the American
Federation of Labor, I had a bunch
of white man offer to pay my way
back to Camden, N. j., rather than
let me work.
All of these things happened to
me because I was loyal colored
American that did not claim any
exemption in 1917, who would have
gladly given his life for America
although he knew that the cause
was unjust.
No, Mr.. Hearst, I do not agree
with you. You should indict the
Democratic and Republican Parties.
the parties that have always allowed
these things to go on, and still up
hold them
Speaking for myself, 1 think more
of the white man since 1884 than
did in the whole previous 50
years of my life. In the Commu-
mist Party l have found some real
white friends whom can trust.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-25
A. A. Member
Elected in Co.
Union Election
By a Steel Worker Correspondent

BY a Steel Worker Correspondent
STEUBENVILLE, Ohio. A week
ago we had the company union cleo
tons and we did a fairly good job
of it.
We elected one member of the
A. A. on the representative COM
mittee. One of the old set was re-
elected after doing some tall prom
Using that he will carry out our in
structions, or in plain English he
will fight for our demands just as
we ask him to do.
He already did a good thing for
us, by making the company put
up door so as to keep out the
draft on us.
The other one that was elected is
a real stool pigeon. He also was
elected on the promise that he will
try to get the tonnage rate back
for us. I have no illusion about
this committee, but by having one
of the A. A. members on it after
all the company did to keep the
workers from voting for him, and
trying to count him out of winning
the election, he surely will be able
to do some good work for us. After
the other two had pledged to do SC
much for us, we sure will call on
them to carry these promises out.
I also want to report that the
A. A. has started its organization
drive in Weirton, w. Va. and Steu-
benville, Ohio. Their meeting in
Steubenville was attended by about
fourty to fifty workers. The work
ers are not flocking like they did
in 1893.
There is every possibility of re-
organizing the workers just as soon
as they see some action from tbs
union. If they see that it really
means to organize them and to gel
them something, they will join the
union. 1, myself, expect to do some
organizing too.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-25

BY Marine Worker Correspondent
I have read Mike Colds column
in the Daily Worker in reference to
Henry Ford's plantation at the
Amazon River.
This is something that I am per-
sonally verSed in, and although !
have not been up to the plantation,
yet I can say that I know something
about the conditions that prevail
there.
I was on the beach at the Port of
Para, having been left behind from
ship, and there I became
acquainted with some of the "philan-
throphies' of Ford and his famous
plantation.
There are some Americans on the
beach down there, and there are
some of Ford's labor agents always
around looking for anybody that
could care to work on his rubber
fields. Now conditions in Para are
not so good for the natives, as they
are ruthlessley exploited by the
better class Portuguese and the
Catholic Church keeps then sub
missive, but believe me there are
none that would care to go to the
plantations up the river.
I spoke to many fellows who had
come down from there, and al
though Ford gives the white man
break by giving him an easy job,
yet the jungle conditions are such
that people would rather starve
than take a chance of the fever and
the primitive conditions that exist
there.
AS far as the natives go (they
are mostly Indians and some Ne
groes) the conditions are such that
it would be suicidal for them to
take the job so Ford has to rely
on the native labor that he can get
in the jungles. When Ford started
off he erected habitable shacks and
gave the workers 10 Milreas per day
tMilrea about cents and this was
about the average pay for a laborer
in Para. However, with the schem-
ing of his efficiency experts and by
collecting the most primitive class
Of laborers, and by the sly introduce
ton of that most infamous of all
South American drinks (Caxiax) he
began to justify himself with ruth
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-25
Double Tempo
Of Production
In Otis Plant
By a Metal Worker Correspondent

By a Metal Worker Correspondent
YONKERS, N. Yin the Otis
Elevator shops here the speed up
is getting to be something fierce.
In the tool room where I work
We have to get out the same amount
of work in half the time we did last
year. This goes for all the ma
chimes in the department and the
bench as well. The boys on the
bench are wondering when they are
going to get back that 10 per cent
wage cut they got last year. With
prices going up the way they are
the rest of us could stand a raise,
too.
There are 80 men working in the
tool room with l department boss,
straw bosses, and efficiency men,
making / watcher" to every 5
workers. It makes you feel like a
race horse with so many people
standing around with stop watches.
They even put the clock on us when
We are setting up jobs or grinding
tools. In the press room they only
give you IA minutes for setting dies.
Old man Jack Moore is supposed
to be the tool room foreman. The
only reason he keeps the job is be-
cause he is in thick with Rivers the
plant superintendent. We call him
Sitting Bull" because he doesn't
know anything about the depart
ment. If you start asking him ques-
tions, he hollers all over the place
so that you won't find out that he
doesn't know anything.
They've been selling Unemploy-
ment Insurance Reviews in front of
the gates. We sure would like to
see. the Washington Congress go
over big and are raising money to
send delegate from our depart
ment. We figure that if we fight
with the unemployed for Unem-
ployment Insurance they'll fight
with us when we go on strike. Be-
sides that, nowadays you can't tell
who is going to be laid off next, and
none of us like the idea of bucking
the Yonkers Relief Buro just be-
cause We can't get work.
We've been signing up for the
Steel and Metal Workers Industrial
Union and getting subscriptions for
the Steel & Metal Worker. Any
body working in Otis that reads
this should get in touch with Local
311, 90 Waverly St., Yonkers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-25
A DROUGHT OF LITERATURE
New York, N. Y.

"A OROOOhA OC Ia GIe1 OhL
New York, N. Y.
Dear Comrade Editor:
I would like you to publish this
interesting excerpt of a letter from
South Bend, Indiana:
Dear F.:
although South Bend is my
home town and I have been here
already for three weeks, find
have become a complete stranger
during almost ten years of absence.
THANK you very much for send
ing me the Daily Worker. I have
surely missed it. I have asked all
my relatives, friends and the news
stands but nobody, although many
workers and farmers live here, could
tell me where I could get it and
many never heard of it. I suspect
that the local news stands here are
bribed not to sell the Daily Worker,
because, you know, there are people
here who have good reason to hide
the truth from the working class.
names such as Studebaker, Notre
Dame, defaulted banks, etc, who are
losing their reputation among work.
ers and farmers.
To-day I visited L. and asked him
about the Daily Worker. He toe
claimed he had never heard of a
paper by that name, but when we
talked a while and I told him about
the terrible Reds in this country. he
said, Yes, the Reds seem to be the
only people who tell no lies. I be-
lieve in their program.
This shows us again, despite all
foul tricks and suppression OF
workers literature in the United
States, how deep the faith that the
Communist Party will lead the
masses is rootde in the American
working class.
ut would not be a bad idea tt
flood this town with revolutionary
literature. Back numbers of maya
zines, such as Soviet Russia Today
Labor Defender, etc, which some.
times lie idle in some corners