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VoL. XIV, No. 1 CONTENTS JANUARY 1, 1935

Editorial Comment • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • .. .. • 3 Keeping the Banks Solvent.............. 6 Americanism .•.••••. Henry George Weiss 6 The Fight For Social Insurance. • • • . • • • • 8 One Year of the Weekly New Masses

A Statement to Our Readers and an Appeal • • ••••• ••••••. .• • • • . • • ••• 9

Father Coughlin's Army .••.. A. B. Magi! 11 Gagging The Guild •••• William Mangold 15 Life of the Mind, 1935

Genevieve Taggard 16 Will the Farmer Go Red?

5. The Dark Cloud ...... John Latham 17 Take This Hope .......•... Richard Giles 19 In the Nazis' Torture House

Karl Billinger 20 The Man at the Factory Gate

Charles Henry Newman 27 H. R. 7598-A Debate on Social Insurance

Mary Van Kleeck ,ys. I. M. Rubinow 28

Correspondence • . . • • . • • . • • . • • • • • • . • . . • • 34 Review and Comment

Revolutionary Literature of 1934 Granville Hicks 36

A Prospect for Edna Millay · Stanley Burnshaw 39

New Documents on the Bolshevik Revolution ...•..••.•.•• Sam Darcy 40

The Unheard Voice Isidor Schneider 41

Music .................... Ashley Pettis The Theatre

The Innocent Propaganda of Maxwell Anderson ••....• Michael Blankfort 44

Other Current Shows .•.••••.••••..•• 45 Disintegration of a Director ••. Peter Ellis 45 Between Ourselves • • • • • • • • . • • • . • • • • . • • . 46 Drawings by

William Sanderson, Mackey, Crockett Johnson, Phil Wolfe, Phil Bard.


Editorial Comment . . • . . . . . . . . • . . . . . . • • . 3 Betrayal by the N.A.A.C.P. •. • . . . . . . . . . • 6 Terror in "Liberal" Wisconsin........... 8 The Truth About the Crawford Case

Martha Gruening 9 Moscow Street. ....... Charles B. Strauss 15 The Auto Workers Face 1935

A. B. Magi! 16 Man on a Road ..••..••.... Albert Maltz 19 Bread Line ....•.•......•... Dee Vagrlen 21 Correspondence . • . • • • • • • • . • • • . . . . . . • • . • 22 Review and Comment

Material for a Note on Shakespeare Stanley Burnshaw 23

Arming the Masses .••.••••. Ben Field 25 American Decadence Mapped

.Samuel Levenson 25 Fire on the Andes •••... Frank Gordon 26 Brief Review ••••••••••••••• , • • • . • • 27 Book Notes •••••••••••••••.••.•••••• 27

Art Design for a Parasite Class

Stephen Alexander 28 Current Theatre .•••.•.••.••...•... S. B. 29 Between Ourselves .•.••..••..•..•.•••... 30 Drawings by

William Sanderson, Phil Bard, Russell T. Limbach.


Editorial Comment . . . . . . • • . • • . • • . . . • . • • 3 Roosevelt Tells Congress................ 8 The Fight for Bread. • . • • . • • • • . . • • • • . • • • 8 What Is Happening in the Saar

Ilya Ehrenbourg 9 Correspondence ........................ 15 Back of the Yards .•..•....•. Jane Benton 16 2,000 Workers Dying on a Job

Bernard Allen 18 White Guards of the World

Harold Ward 19 A Man· and a Woman ••..•. Ernst Toller 20 Review and Comment ••..•.••.••••••••• 23

A New Direction for Criticism •· Stanley Burnshaw 23

Lenin on Renegade Socialism L M. Lerner 24

What .Spies Are Made Of Isidor Schneider 25

An Incomplete Indictment Corliss Lamont 26

Sidetracking American Thought Maxwell Bodenheim 27

Brief Review • • • • • . • • • • • • • . . • • • • • • • . 27 Music:

A Music School for Workers Ashley Pettis 28

Not a Dry Eye .•.••••••. Robert Forsythe 29 Sweet LeRoy •••••••••..••.••. Peter Ellis 29 Ode to Liberty ••••.•.. Michael Blankfort 30 Between Ourselves ••••••.•..•••••••••••• 30 Drawings by

Russell T. Limbach, Crockett Johnson, John Arrow.

VOL, XIV, No. 4 CONTENTS JANUARY 22, 1935

Editorial Comment , .. , ..... , • . . . . . • • • • 3 The Saar Plebiscite. . . . . . . . . . . . .. .. .. .. • 6 Students in Revolt..................... 7 A Year of the Guild.................. 7 Our Congress and Theirs ... Michael Gold 8 The Sacramento Trials.,, .Jack Warnick 11 2,000 Dying on a Job .•.••. Bernard Allen 13 Hurrah for Mr. Goldstein ..... Sue Varna 14 Songs About Lenin .•.• , .. , ••.• , ••. , , • • • 15 Will the Farmer Go Red?

6: The Way Out ........ John Latham 16 Correspondence ••......... , ••.••.•..• , . 18 Review and Comment. . . . • . . . • • . • • . • . .. . 20

A Call for an American Writers' Congress ...................... , • 20

To Explain-or to Change? John Strachey 21

Inside Is the Wrong Side, Fallada John Norman 22

Pretty Pictures •••• Russell T. Limbach 24 Short Stories in America. , Alfred Hayes 24 Book Notes ••.••..•..•••...••.••..•• 24 Brief Review • . . • • . • • • . . • • • . • • • • . . • 25

Art: Murals by Burck and Laning Stephen Alexander 26

The Theatre •••.••.••. Michael Blankfort 28 The Dance .•..•••.•• , •• Horace Gregory 28 Chapayev Is Here ....... Robert Forsythe 29 Between Ourselves • . • • . . • . . . • . • • . • • . • • • 30 Drawings by

William Sanderson, Phil Bard, Hoff, paintings by Jacob Burck and Edward Laning, photographs by Margaret Bourke-White.


Editorial Comment..................... 3 Security-For Wall Street.............. 6 The Vets March Again................. 6 The Red Plot Thickens. • . . • . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Wall Street's Fascist Conspiracy

1. Testimony that the Dickstein Com-mittee Suppressed ... John L. Spivak 9

Aspects of Soviet Art ..... Louis Lozowick 16 Agnes Smedley in Danger. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Correspondence . . . • . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Review and Comment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • . 22

What is a Proletarian Writer? William Rollins, Jr. 22

Without Benefit of the A. F. of L. Robert Dunn 23

Vridar Hunter Betrayed .. Jack Conroy 25 Civilization Rampant

Bernhard J. Stern 25 Book Notes •....•.•.•.••.•••...•.•.. 26

Theatre Waiting for Lefty ... Stanley Burnshaw 27 Artef Presents "Dostigayev"

Joshua Kunitz 28 The British Are Coming, Boom!

Robert Forsythe 29 Between Ourselves .•...••.....••••...... 30 Drawings by

Russell T. Limbach; Paintings by Sergeyevich Petrov-Vodkin and Eugene Aleksandrovich Katzman.

VoL. XIV, No. 6 CONTENTS FEBRUARY 5, 1935

Editorial Comment . .. • . . . . . .. . . .. . . . . . . 3 Writers in Union Square................ 7 The Students Fight War ......... ·....... 7 Tanaka Still Talks..................... 8 Wall Street's Fascist Conspiracy

2. Morgan Pulls the Strings John L. Spivak ....... 10

Prospect for an Auto Strike .•. A. B. Magi I 15 The Greatest Story ..••.•.•• Nathan Asch 17 England "Revives" .....•.. Harold Ward 19

Mr. Knopf Makes a Sale George Simpson 20

Correspondence ..••.•.•.....••••....... 21

Review and Comment ................... 23 A Test for Critics ..•. Granville Hicks 23 Descent from Marx to Scott via Veblen

Addison T. Cutler 24 Still Waters-Still Hollow

Bernard Smith 26 Brief Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • . . • . 27

Music .•.......••......•.. Ashley Pettis 28 The Auvilles' Songs ...•... L. E. Swift 28

The Theatre: Intermission .......... Robert Forsythe 29

The Same Old Warner •.••.... Peter Ellis 30 Between Ourselves • . . . . . . . . . • • . . . . . . • • • 30


Editorial Comment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 The Picket Line Grows. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • . 6 California Justice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 A Prison in Russia .......... Lester Cohen 9 "Anarchy" in Arkansas .... Harold Preece 1+ Two Poems ..........•.... Martha Millet 15 Valentine Greetings

Drawn by Bernarda Bryson, Adolph Dehn, Mackey, Redfield, Anton Refregier, William Sanderson, Ben Shahn, Art ¥ oung; verse by Dan Shays 16

Minority Peoples in Two Worlds Langston Hughes 18

One Writer's Position ••.. Horace Gregory 20 Do You Hear? .•..••..•.. Mildred Gaims 2t Correspondence • . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Review and Comment ••.••...••.••..•.. 23 Thomas Boyd, Communist

Granville Hicks 23 Portraits of Two Liberals

Edwin Berry Burgum 24 Reluctant Eyes on China

Isidor Schneider 26 A Sitwell Unconfirmed

Muriel Rukeyser 26 Brief Review . . . • . • . . . . . • . • • . . • . . 27

The Theatre: God's in His Heaven Michael Blankfort 28

Land of Sweet Lorgnettes Robert Forsythe 29

Between Ourselves •..................•• 30 Drawings by: Phil Bard, R. T. Limbach


Editorial Comment • • • • . . . • • . • . • • • • • • • • 3 Seventh Soviet Congress • • • . . . . • . • • • . . . . 6 Columbus Circle .•••••.•.. Will Lawrence 8 Trial by Vigilantes .••••••. Bruce Minton 9 Btown Shirts in Zion ...•. Robert Gessner 11 Women and Communism •.. Rebecca Pitts 14 Biscuits and Blackjacks .• Edward Newhouse 18 Correspondence ••••••••....••....• ~. • . • • 20 Review and Comment ..•.•••...••.....• 21

Another Writer's Position Edwin Seaver 21

Day Dreams in Life ••... Leon Dennen 22 Shadow of Philanthropy .. Loren Miller 23

Brief Review • . • • . • • . • • . • • . . . • • • • • • 24 Art ..•.......••.•.••. Stephen Alexander 26 The Theatre

International Theatre Week Mark Marvin 27

Helen Howe ...•••.•••.. Orrick Johns 27 The Gilded Lily ..••....•••.. Peter Ellis 27 Lady Macbeth of Mzensk ... Ashley Pettis 28 Five Star Final. •..•••••. Robert Forsythe 29 Between Ourselves . . . • • • . . . . . • • . • • . . . • 30 Drawings by Russell T. Limbach, Richard

Correll, Ned Hilton, William Sanderson, Mackey; reproduction of a painting by Lydia Gibson.

VoL. XVI, No. 9 CONTENTS FEBRUARY 26, 1935

Editorial Comment • • . • • . . . . . . . . . • . . . • . 3 The Dickstein Report................... 6 Official Soviet-Baiting . . . . . • . • . • • . • • • . . . 7 What the Gold Clause Means

John Irving 9 Seventy-five Thousand Captive Miners

Amy Schechter 10 Notes from the Road ....••• John Strachey 14 Opium-For the People ..•. Harold Ward 15 Letters from America: ...••••.•..••.•.. 16

How They Gyp the Teachers, by Boyd Wolff; Stretch-out in the Army, by J. Arnold-Williams, Organizing Wall Street, · by John Stone.

Eisler: Maker of Red Songs .. Ashley Pettis 18 Three Southern Sketches .••••• Boris Israel 19 Correspondence ...••.••.•.....••••••.••• 21

Review and Comment. . . . . . . . . . • . • • . • • . 22 The Fetish of Being Outside

Mericle! LeSueur 22 New Form and New Content

Isidor Schneider 23 Dead Flowers in Lovely Vases

Obed Brooks 24 A Holy Wafer for the Starving

Sylvia Glass 25 The Theatre .••••••••• Michael Blankfort 26 The Dance ••.••••.••.. Stanley Burnshaw 27 Art ••.••.••••.••..••• Stephen Alexander 28 Stuff of Life ...•.......•. Robert Forsythe 29 Hollywood Makes "History" .•. Peter Ellis 29 Between Ourselves ..........•••.•.••.•. 30 Drawings by: Limbach, Eugene Chodrow,

William Sanderson, Philip Reisman.

VoL. XVI, No. 10 CONTENTS MARCH 5, 1935

Editorial Comment..................... 3 The One Busy Industry.. .. .. .. .. .. .. • 6 Fascism Moves on Africa............... 7 Minnesota's Ramsay MacDonald

John Strachey 9 Doctors in the Red .••... Martha Andrews 11 The Fight for Thaelmann ... Albert Viton 13 I Handed Out Relief ....... Tom Johnson 14 Hunger and Revolt

Drawings by Jacob Burck 16 Strikes in the Skyscrapers

Edward Newhouse 18 Correspondence . . . • • . . . . • • . . . . • • . • • . . . . 19 Review and Comment .................. 21

And a Great Personality W. T. Massey 22

Brave New Historians .. Henry Cooper 23 Pain Without Finish

Norman MacLeod 23 Worship at Dusk

Charles B. Hatchard 24 Jacob Burck's America

Stephen Alexander 25 The Dance .................. Edna Ocko 26 Music .•.•..•...••........ Max Margulis 27 The Theatre:

Awake and Sing!. .. Michael Blankfort 28 The Soviet Film .............. Peter Ellis 29 Between Ourselves • . . . • . . . . . . • • . • . . . . • • 30 Drawings by

Russell T. Limbach, Jacob Burck.

VoL. XIV, No. 10 CONTENTS MARCH 12, 1935

Editorial Comment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Two Years of the New Deal............ 6 Mellon and His Millions................ 6 The Macaulay Ruling.................. 7 Thomas: Prince of Straddlers

. James S. Allen 9 Whose National Guard? ....... Ben Engineers on the Scrap Heap

Martha Andrews 12 Letters from Prison:

Sacramento County, Calif. Donald Bigham and Martin \Vilson 16

Sebastian County, Arkansas Horace Bryan 16

Ellis Island, New York .. Christ Popoff 16 Peat-Bog Soldiers .......... Hanns Eisler 18 I, Jim Rogers .......... STanley Burnshaw 19

Poet and Revolutionist ... Isidor Schneider 20 Correspondence. . . . . . . . • . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Review and Comment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

The Consumer Consumed Matthew Josephson 22

Approach and Arrival. .Edwin Seaver 23 The Communist Answer

Corliss Lamont 24 \Vhy Wait? ....... Edward Newhouse 25 Our Scientific Heritage

David Ramsey 25 The Eisler Concert ......... Ashley Pettis 27 Art. ................. Stephen Alexander 28 The Well of Insanity .... Robert Forsythe 29 Between Ourselves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Drawings by William Gropper, Russell T.

Limbach, Raphael Sayer, Dan Rico.

VoL. XIV, No. 11 C 0 N T E N T S MARCH 19, 1935 -------------------------------------------------------Editorial Comment • • • • • • • . • • • • • • • • . • • • 3 Civil War In Greece................... 8 Thieves Falling Out ............... ,... 8 The Soviet in Cuba .•.•. Josephine H-erbst 9 Saboteurs of Education ... Frank Harrison 12 Detroit's Labor Candidate .... A. B. Magi! H For an Unborn Child .•... Willard Maas 15 Cartoons from the Foreign Press. . . . . . . . 16 Let 'Em Eat Horsepower ... Harold Ward 18 Can You Tell Us Apart in a Crowd?

Saul Leavitt 19 Friends of McCormick ..... Richard Giles 20 Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • . . . . 21 Review and Comment

The Negro Writer and the Congress E. Clay 22

Formula for a Best Seller James T. Farrell 23

The Side-Step Philosophy Theodore Draper 24

Goethe and the Jews ... Kenneth Burke 25 Vision Without Vision .. Isidor Schneider 26 Brief Review . . . . • . . . . . • . • . . . . . . . . . 26

The Dance ........... Stanley Burnshaw 28 Art ....••...•....... Stephen Alexander 29 Movies ..................... Peter Ellis 29 Between Ourselves ....•.•.....•...••..• 30 Drawings by

Russell T. Limbach, William Gropper; photograph by Grace Abbott; reproduction of cartoons by foreign artists.

VoL. XIV, No. 12 CONTENTS MARCH 26, 1935

Editorial Comment • . . • . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Der Tag Again........................ 8 The Strachey Case. . . . • . . . . . . . . . . • . . . . . 9 The N.A.A.C.P. "Denies"............... 9 Kingfish Huey:

Expose and Interview ... Sender Gar lin 10 Order in the Court! ........ Iris Hamilton 14 Teaching-A Peon Profession

Martha Andrews 16 Fremont Older .....•.....• Michael Gold 19 Bertrand Russell ......•.. Robert Schuman 20 Correspondence • . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • . . . 21 Review and Comment

Strachey and the Pundits Addison T. Cutler 22

Malraux's Sketch Book Isidor Schneider 23

From \Yar to War •. Charles Hatchard 24 "Rediscovering America" Fascist .Style

Ben Goldstein 26 Brief Review . • • . . . . • . . . . . • . • • . . . • . 26

The Theatre: "Awake and Sing!"-A Protest by Abner Biberman; a Reply by Michael Blank fort . . . • . . . • . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Art .................. Stephen Alexander 28 Movies ....................... Peter Ellis 28 Between Ourselves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • . . 30 Drawings by

William Sanderson, William Gropper, Ned Hilton, Russell T. Limbach.

VoL. XV, No. 1 CONTENTS APRIL 2, 1935

Editorial Comment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Strachey Testifies. . . . . . . . • . . . . . . . . . . . . . • 6 Hunger in Harlem..................... 8 The March toward Moscow. . . . . . . . . . . . 9 I Escaped from Cuba

Pablo de Ia Torriente-Brau 11 Keep Them from Thinking!

James Wechsler 12 Fight the Gag Bills ...... Roger Baldwin 13 Two Poems ...•..........•.. A. B. Magi! 14 What Happened in Harlem

Louise Thompson 15 Cuba-Sick for Freedom

Josephine Herbst 17 Can We Pay for H. R. 2827?

Dr. Joseph Gillman 20 Jailbreak .....•...•........ Tom Johnson 22 The Red Stick Brigade ..... Joshua Kunitz 26 The Origin of Music .. ,Sergei Tchemodanov 30 Stuffed Bird ............. Isidor Schneider 31 Review and Comment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Toward Marxist Criticism Norbert Guterman 32

Heavenly Visitation .• James T. Farrell 32 Greenwood's Second Novel

Granville Hicks 33 Our Greatest Mural Art

Charmion von Wiegand 34 The Big News .... Herman Michelson 35 Feeble Verity and False Wonder

Clarence Hill 37 Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 8 A Task for the Writers' Congress

Robert Gessner 39 The Theatre

Theatre Union's "Black Pit," by Joseph North; Archibald MacLeish's "Panic," by V. J. Jerome .................... 42

Art ................. Stephen Alexander 45

Between Ourselves ..................... 46

Drawings by William Gropper, Russell T. Limbach, Jacob Burck, Louis Lozowick, Reginald Marsh, William Sanderson.


Editorial Comment..................... 3 Slow Starvation. . . . • • • . . • . . • . . • . . . . • . • . 6 The Campus Strikes! • • • . • . . . . . . • • • . . • . 6 Inflation-What It Is................... 7 Heil Hitler ..•.......•.. William Randorf 9 Southern Mill Workers Framed

Dan Shays 13 The Rape of Abyssinia .... Bruce Minton 14 Acorns: Short Story .• • Marie Teresa Leon 16 Letters from a Farm Organizer

David Lurie 17 Uncle Sam-Farm Mortgagor

Robert F. Hall 18 Correspondence . . . . . . • • • . . • • • • • • . . • • • • . 20

Review and Comment Only One Subject ..•..... Dale Curran 21 Billinger's Fatherland .. Joseph Freeman 22 The English Poets .••.... Orrick Johns 23 Sympathy is not Enough

Gilbert Douglas 24 Brief Review. • . . . . . . . . . • • . . . • • . . • • . 25

The Theatre Two Red Plays on Broadway

Stanley Burnshaw 27 Art ...............•.• Stephen Alexander 28 Raining No More .....•.. Robert Forsythe 29 Between Ourselves ...••.....•...•...... 30 To Our Readers 0 • 0 o •••••• o o o o • o o o •••• o o 30 Drawings by

William Gropper, Scheel, Boris Gorelik, RusseJI T. Limbach.

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VoLt_xv, No. 3 CONTENTS APRIL 16, 1935

Editorial Comment . . . . • . • • . • . • • • • . • • . • • 3 Statistics of Hunger.. .. . . . .. . . . . .. • . .. • 8 The Students Teach.................... 9 Mail-Order Dictatorship .•.•. Loren Miller 10 Palm Springs, Calif ••.... Irene Kilbourne 12 Coming: "A Damn Big Strike"

Amy Schechter 13 Heard at Dnieprestroi. .... Robert Gessner 15 Why I Quit Liberalism ••. Bruce Crawford 16 When Counter-Revolution Wins

Henry Cooper 17 Correspondence • • . • • . . • . • . . . • • . . . . . . . • • 20 Review and Comment

Required Reading for Writers George Dimitrov 21

The Hunted and Booted .•. Jack Conroy 21 S.hallow Deeps ..•••• , . Granville Hicks 22 Analysis of Communication

Norbert Guterman 23 Too Many Sonnets •• , ••• Clarence Hill 25

The Theatre .•.•.• , .••. ,,,, ••. Ben Blake 26 Movies: Moscow Laughs •••••• Peter Ellis 28 Down with the Novel

Robert Forsythe 29 Between Ourselves •.•• , . • • • . • . • • • • . • • • 30 Drawings by

Russell T. Limbach, William Sanderson, Mackey, William Gropper.


Editorial Comment . . . . .. . . . . . .. . . . . .. • 3 Socialists Hedge Again..... . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Letters From America. .. . .. . . . . . . . . • .. . . 8 Coughlin Crusades Against Labor

A. B. Magil 10 Wildcat Coal. .............. Necho Allen 13 Soviet Asia Sings ......... Joshua Kunitz 15 Strike Sweeps the Campus

James Wechsler 19 Correspondence ......................... 21 Review and Comment

Waldo Frank and the Left Edward Dahlberg 22

The Path of Regeneration John Howard Lawson 23

Agrarianism •................. Rob Hall 24 Whose United States? ... Ed Newhouse 25 Recent Magazines .. Stephen Alexander

Isidor Schneider 25 Brief Review • . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Current Theatre ......... Allen Chumley 27 Art .................. Stephen Alexander 28 Movies ...................... Peter Ellis 28 The Dance ............ Stanley Burnshaw 29 The Book Union ....................... 30 Between Ourselves ............• , ••.... 30

, Drawings by , Russell T. Limbach, Louis Lozowick,

Martin, Mackey, Hainsley.

EDITORS: SLATER BROWN, MlcHABL GoLD, EuGENE GoRDON, GRANVILLE H1co, ORRICK JOHNS,

JOSHUA KUNITZ, RuSSELL T, LIMBACH, HERMAN MICHELION, JOIEPH NORTH, ASHLEY PETTIS, WILLIAM RANDORF,

WILLIAM BROWDER, Busine11 Ma1Ul{Jer. ALLAN TAUB, Mid-Western RepresenUJi"e. Published weekly by the NEW MA8BBS, INC., at 81 East 27th Street, New York City. Copyright, 1935, NBW MAssES, INC., Reg. U. S. Patent Office. Drawings and text may not be reprinted without permiBBion. Entered aa second-class matter, June 24, 1926, at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 8, 1879. Single copies, 10 cents. Subscription, $8.50 a year in U. S. and Colonies and :Mexico. Sb: months $2 : three months $1 : Foreign $4.60 a year: six months $2.50 : three montbs $1.25. Subscribera are notified that no change of address can be effeeted In less than 2 weeks. THE NEw :MASSES 178 welcomes the work of new writers, In prose and verae, and of artists. :MSS must be accom- --panled by return postage. THE NEW MAssES pays for contributions. •• ~ , •


Editorial Comment . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . .. .. . 3 Red Leaves of Red Books .. Richard Wright 6 The "Security" Bill......... . . . . . . . . . . .. 8 Our First Writers' Congress............ 9 Dreiser Denies He is Anti-Semitic...... 10

Trying to Lock Up a Union Walter S. Pickard 11

Earl Browder: A Profile .... Joseph North 13

The Lecture ••.••........ Jose Mancisidor 15 May Day Song, Words by Robert Gessner,

Music by L. E. Swift ............... 16 Middle-Ground Writers

Stanley Burnshaw 19

Correspondence ........ , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Review and Comment For a Literary United Front

Matthew Josephson 22 There are Adventures and Adventures

Otis Ferguson 23 Soviet Penology .. Victor A. Yakhontoff 24 Masterpieces .......... Corliss Lamont 25

When Lefty Came to Boston Charles Hatchard 27

"The Whites of Their Eyes" Robert Forsythe 29

Pie in the Sky ............. Orrick Johns 29 Between Ourselves ..................... 30 Drawings by

Art Young, William Gropper, Jacob Burck, Redfield, Limbach.

EDITORS: SLATER BROWN, MICHAEL GoLD, EuGENE GoRDON, GRANVILLE HICKS, ORRICK }OHNI,

JosHuA KuNITZ, RussELL T. LIMBACH, HERHAN MICHELSON, JOSEPH NoRTH, ASHLEY PETTIS, WILLIAM RANDORF.

WILLIAM BROWDER, Business Ma111Jget'. ALLAN TAus, Mid-Western Repreunuti"e. Published weekly by the NEW MAssES, INC., at 81 East 27th Street, New York City. Copyright, 1985, NBW MAssES, INc., Reg. U. S. Patent Office. Drawings and text may not be reprinted without permission. Entered as second-class matter, June 24, 1926, at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the aet of March S, 1879. Single copies, 10 cents. Subscription, $3.50 a year in U. S. and Colonies and Mexico. Sb: months $2 : three months $1 : Foreign $4.50 a year: six months $2.50 : three months $1.25. Subscribera are notitl.ed that no change of address can be effected in less than 2 weeks. THE NEW MASSES ' 171 welcomes the work of new writers, ln prose and verse, and of artists. MSS must be acoom· ,..,_ panted by return postage. THE NEW MAssES pa:ya for contributions. • . :- _

VoL. XV, No 6 CONTENTS MAY 7, 1935

Editorial Comment • . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 3 To the Trade ..•......... James Neugass 6 The League of American Writers....... 7 What Is Communism?

1: General Johnson Proves It Earl Browder 9

Georgia Work ,Song Collected by Lawrence Gellert 10

Letters from America. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 May Day, 1886: The Haymarket Struggle

Eight Drawings., ••.. Mitchell Siporin 12 The Gun Is Loaded, Dreiser

Michael Gold 14

Caricatures Made at the Writers' Congress William Gropper, Phil Wolfe, Limbach 16

Values of the Revolutionary Writer Waldo Frank 18

What the Revolutionary Movement Can Do for a Writer ••.. Malcolm Cowley 20

The Tradition of American Revolutionary Literature .•..•••. Joseph Freeman 22

Correspondence . . . • • . • . . . • • • . . . . • • . • • . . 26 Art: The White-Haired Boy of the Crisis

Stephen Alexander 28 Movies: The Youth of Maxim

Peter Ellis 29 Between Ourselves ......•.••...••.•..• 30

EDITORS: SLATER BROWN, MICHAEL GoLD, EUGENE GORDON, GRANVILLE HICKS, ORRICK JOHNS,

JosHUA KUNITZ, RUSSELL T. LIMBACH, HERMAN MICHELSON, JOSEPH NORTH, AsHLEY PETTIS, WILLIAM RANDORF.

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VoL. XV, No. 7 CONTENTS MAY 14, 1935

Editorial Comment . • . . . . • • . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 · Smash the Dunckel Biii. . . . . . . . • • . . . . . . . 6 Tel. and Tel. "Celebrates". • . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Washington-Jim-Crow Capital

Marguerite Young 9 What Is Communism?

2: Questions About the Movement Earl Browder 13

The Kidnaping in Gallup Philip Stevenson 16

Biiiionaire on Trial. •........ Carl Reeve 17 Mike Tighe Expels the Majority

Amy Schechter 19 Correspondence ••....•................. 21

Review and Comment From Dada to Red Front. .Louis Aragon 23 Melodrama .........•. Granviiie Hicks 25 Old Man's Dim Eyes ..... Dale Curran 25 Health for Workers ... Isidor Schneider 26

Art: Primitive Negro Sculpture Stephen Alexander 26

Dramatist in the Coalfields ... Albert Maltz 27 Movies ..•....••.....•....... Peter Ellis 28 Willie the Weeper .•...•. Robert Forsythe 29 Between Ourselves. . . . . . . . • . . . . . . . . . • . . . 30 Drawings by

Wiiiiam Gropper, Redfield, Phil Bard, Russell T. Limbach.

EDITORS: SLATER BROWN, MICHAEL GoLD, EUGENE GoRDON, GRANVILLE HICKS, ORRICK JOHNS,

JOSHUA KUNITZ, RUSSELL T. LIMBACH, HERMAN MICHELSON, JOSEPH NORTH,

AsHLEY PETTIS, WILLIAM RANDORF.

WILLIAM BROWDER, Business Manager. ALLAN TAus, Mid-Western Representati'Ve.

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Editorial Comment • • . • • . • . • . . . . . . . . . . . • 3 Sabotaging the Bonus................... 6 The Supreme Court Says "No". • • • . • • . . • • 7 Housing i)l the Sky:

The Collapse of the Roosevelt Program Sidney Hill 9

The Frameup in Gallup .•...• A. L. Wirin 12 Prisoners of the Class War .........••... 14 Fraternity Minus the Bunk .. Bruce Minton 15 Self-Criticism in Soviet Cartoons •....... 16 What Is Communism?

3: Who Will Lead the Revolution? Earl Browder 18

Washington-Jim-Crow Capital 2: "Friends of the Negro"

Marguerite Young 20

Correspondence • . . • . . • • . • • . . • • • • . • • . • • . 23 Review and Comment

Kenneth Fearing: A Poet for Workers Edward Dahlberg 24

Studs Lonigan in Conclusion Josephine Herbst 25

Thunder Over the Pacific Donald Hemsley 26

He Didn't Die in Bed ... Bruce Minton 27 The Dance ..........•. Stanley Burnshaw 28 The Pulitzer Prizes .••... Robert Forsythe 29 Between Ourselves ...••..•.••.......... 30 Drawings by

William Gropper, Mackey, Redfield.


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Editorial Comment... . . • . . • • . . . . . . . • . . • • 3 Wagner's Anti-Labor Bill............... 6 Farmers in Washington................. 6 Youth in Action........................ 7 John Reed's Portrait. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 "Mrs. Roosevelt Will Not Speak"

A Report on the Fascist Youth Con-ference in Louisville .•.. James King 9

Sea-Safety for Fascism ...•.. Hays Jones .. 12 Why They Lost in Toledo .. Alfred Hirsch 13 Decoration Day ......... Philip Cornwall 14 What Is Communism?

4. Your Wages and Revolution Earl Browder 16

Afternoon of a Realtor ..... Edwin Seaver 19 Correspondence • . . • • . . . • • . • . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Review and Comment Louis D. Brandeis: Why Liberalism

Failed ....••••••.•••. Roger Brooks 22 Two Worlds ......•.. lsidor Schneider 24 A South-American Classic

Frank L. Gordon 24 Mansion and Mill ..... Grace Lumpkin 25

Brief Review ..•.••••..•.•••••.•••• ,,.,, 26 Parade in Boston .•....... Robert Forsythe 27 The Theatre ..........•... Herbert Kline 28 The Screen ................... Peter Ellis 29 Art. ................... Stephen Alexander 30 Between Ourselves ...••.............•... 30 Drawings by

Redfield, Mackey, Crockett Johnson; reproductions of paintings by Joe Jones.


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VoL. XV, No. 10 CONTENTS JUNE 4, 1935

Editorial Comment..................... 3 The Guild Convention.... . . . .. .. . . . . .. • 6 Racketeering in Hospitals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 The Forced Work Program............. 7 Fired for Being a Communist

Granville Hicks 9 Hicks-The Man They "Could Spare"

Bruce Minton 10 Heil, Blue and Gold .•.•....... Vera Cox 13 Toward a National Negro Congress

Eleanor Ryan 14 Now We~ll Tell You Something

William Gropper 16 \Vhat Is Cummunism?

What the Middle Class Can Gain from the Revolution ....... Earl Browder 18

Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Review and Comment A Study in National Liberation

Moissaye J. Olgin 2~ Marianne Moore and Eliot .. Orrick Johns 24

Nazi Work of Art .•... Bernard Smith 25 The Theatre:

"The Young Go First" Michael Blankfort 27

Sklar's and Peters' "Parade" Stanley Burnshaw 28

The National Negro Theatre ........• 28 Reviewing the Press

Margaret Wright Mather 29 Between Ourselves . . . . . . . . . . . • . . . . . . . . 30 Drawings by

Russell T. Limbach, Jacob Burck, Crockett Johnson.

EDITORS: MICHAEL GoLD, EUGENE GoRDON, GRANVILLE HICKS, ORRICK JOHNS, JOSHUA KUNITZ, RUSSELL T. LIMBACH, HERMAN MICHELSON, JOSEPH NORTH,

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VOL. XV, No. 11 CONTENTS JUNE 11, 1935

Editorial Comment . . . . . . • . • • . • . • . . . . • • 3 -But the Patient Will Die............. 6 Four Billion Dollars-for Whom?

Maynard Boyer and Sidney Hill 9 Britain Backs Hitler ..•..• R. Palme Dutt 13 Between Wars on the Coast.Bruce Minton 15 What is Communism?

Sunny South •..•••... Hamilton Basso 25 Soviet Tempo in an American Novel

Alice Withrow Field 26 The Theatre . . . . . . • . . • • • • . . • • . . . . . . . • • 27 Jonas Lie, Red-Baiter

Stephen Alexander 28

6.-Communism and Religion Earl Browder 18

Cyanide for Lunch ...•...•. Tom Johnson 21

The Screen •••..•••.......•. Peter Ellis 29 Between Ourselves . . • • • • . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Correspondence •. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • . . 22 Review and Comment

The Work of Friedrich Wolf Erwin Piscator 23

Drawings by Russell T. Limbach, William Sanderson, Andrew Redfield, William Gropper.

EDITORS: MICHAEL GoLD, EUGENE GoRDON, GRANVILLE HICKS, ORRICK JOHNS,

JoSHUA KUNITZ, RUSSELL T. LIMBACH, HERMAN MICHELSON, JOSEPH NORTH,


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VoL. XV, No. 12 CONTENTS JuNE 18, 1935

Editorial Comment . • . . • • • • • • • . • • • • • • • • 3 Blacklist in The High Schools. . . • . . • • . . . 6 Chiang Kai-Shek Sells China........... 7 What Kind of a Third Party

John Broman 9 What Is Communism?

7: How the Communist Party Works Earl Browder 11

The Timid Profession .••. Granville Hicks 14 Red Belt Around Paris ..... Andre Ribard 16 Revolt of the Hous~twives •••. Ann Barton 18 A Letter from America

Slavery in the Virgin Islands G. D'Marcy O'Brien 19

Correspondence . . . • . . . • • • • . . . • • . . . . . • • . 21

Review and Comment Chamberlin's "History" .. Joshua Kunitz 22 Poetry of the Season •••. Moishe Nadir 25 The New Lenin Edition .•. Henry Hart 26 Brief Review ••.. ~ ••..•.•••..••..•••. 27

Art: Frank Lloyd Wright's Utopia

Stephen Alexander 28 Theatre Notes .......................... 28 Confessions of an Opium ,Sitter

Robert Forsythe 29 Between Ourselves •..•.•••••••.••.•••.•• 30 Drawings by

Jacob Burck, Russell T. Limbach, Mackey.

EDITORS: MICHAEL GoLD, EUGENE GoRDON, GRANVILLE HICKS, ORRICK JOHNS, JosHuA KuNnz, RussELL T. LIMBACH, HERMAN MICHELSON, JOSEPH NoRTH,


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VoL. XV, No. 13 CONTENTS }UNE 25, 1935

Editorial Comment . . • . . . . . . • . . . . . . . . • . 3 The Glory of R.P.I.................... 6 Let 'Em Eat Grass Roots. . . . • . . . . . . • • • • 6 Where Life Is Good. . • • . . . • . . . . . . . • • . . . 7 Why Japan Risks War:

New Markets: Tokyo's Lifeline...... 9 Famine in the Countryside

Soma Haruta 11 Buick Strikes Back ........ Adam Smythe 12 What Is Communism?

8. Americanism-Who Are the Amer,icans? ...••......... Earl Browder 13

West Coast Labor on the March Dawn Lovelace 15

Murder in Manhattan .••... A. B. Shiffrin 17

Youth Leaves Schol. •.... Martha Thomas 19 Correspondence • • . . . • • . . . . . . • . . . • • . • . . . 21 Death of Y osl Cutler

Nathaniel Buchwald 23 Review and Comment

The Rise of the Nazis ... Karl Billinger 24 E (i. o. u.) Noncummings

Isidor Schneider 26 A Very Sad Young Man .. Tom Kromer 27

The Theatre ..••.•.•.•.•.... J. C. ,Seidel 29

Between Ourselves .•••••••••.........•.• 30

Drawings by William Gropper, Boris Gorelick, Yosl Cutler, Carl Fox, Crockett Johnson.

EDITORS: MICHAEL GoLD, GRANVILLE HICKS, ORRICK JOHNS, JoSHUA KUNITZ, RuSSELL T. LIMBACH, HERMAN MICHELSON, LoREN MILLER, JoSEPH NORTH,

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VoL. XVI, No. 1 CONTENTS JuLY 2, 1935

Editorial Comment .. • .. . .. . .. • .. . . • .. . . 3 The Crisis of the Middle Class. . . . . . . . . . 6 What Is Communism ?

9: Labor Party and Communist Party Earl Browder 9

Twilight of Mosley ..•.•. M. B. Schnapper 11 A Letter from Spain. .. .. .. • . .. . . .. . • .. 12 Chicago's Red-Baiting Comic Opera

Joel Eden 13 A New Angle in Humor .... Bruce Minton 16 Short Story Supplement:

The Proletarian Short Story Alan Calmer 17

The Rabbit ................ Ben Field 19 Big Hands .............. Len Zinberg 22 Case History .......... John Mortimer 23 A Lumpen •..••••...... Nelson Algren 25 Spread Your Sunrise .• Richard Wright 26 Guns ................... Peter Quince 27 A Trip to Uncle Joe's ...•.. Saul Levitt 29

Another Washington Circus James T. Farrell 33

Correspondence ....•...•...........•... 34 Review and Comment:

A Ticket for Tarkington Murray Godwin 36

History-Making Plays John Howard Lawson 37

Meet the Soviet Citizen Maxwell Stewart 40

New Issue of Art Front Stephen Alexander 41

A Novel About Automobile Workers Edwin Seaver 42

The Dance: Finale to a Brilliant Season

Stanley Burnshaw 43 The Screen:

Movies in Motley ..... Allen Chumley 44 Hooray, Etcetera .....•... Robert Forsythe 45 Between Ourselves .....•.......•........ 46 Drawings by

Jacob Burck, Gropper, Del, William Sanderson, Redfield, Mackey; photograph of a sculpture by Minna Harkavy.

EDITORS: MICHAEL GoLD, GRANVILLE HICKS, ORRICK JOHNS, JoSHUA KUNITZ, RUSSELL T. LIMBACH, HERMAN MICHELSON, LoREN MILLER, JOSEPH NORTH,

AsHLEY PETTIS, WILLIAM RANJ>ORF.

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VoL. XVI, No. 2 CONTENTS JULY 9, 1935

Editorial Comment • • • . • • . • • • .. • • • • • • • • 3 Two Kinds of Social Security •••••• , • • • 6 What Is Communism?

10: A Glimpse at Soviet America Earl Browder 9

Bread Winners •••••••• David Greenhood 11 Radio-The Great American Racket

Lucien Zacharoff 12 Be Careful, Mrs. Hopkins .•. Nathan Asch 14 Seed and Stubble .•..••.• Lola Pergament 14 Labor's Dividends Under the New Deal •• 15 The Depression Generation

M. B. Schnapper 18 Farm in Alaska ............ ,Sanora Babb 19 Correspondence ............ _ ........... , 20 Review and Comment

The Marxist Foundations of Humor Robert Briffault 22

Singer of the Gumbo •••••• Jack Balch 24 Join Hand and Brain.Meridel LeSueur 25 The Evidence for Soviet Russia

lsidor Schneider 26 An Important Study of Soviet Life

Grace Hutchins 27 The Theatre:

Toward a Genuine Negro Drama Stanley Burnshaw 29

The Screen: The March of Time ....... Peter Ellis 29

Other Current Films .................... 30 Between Ourselves • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 30

Drawings by Wiiliam Sanderson, William Gropper, Jacob Burck, E. Cooper.

VoL. XVI, No. 3 CONTENTS JULY 16, 1935

Editorial Comment . .. . .. . .. . . . . . . . . .. . 3 Scottsboro and Equality. . . . . . . . . . . . . . • . 6 An Exclusive Labor Party..... . . . . . . . . . 7 What Happened to Us in Cuba

Clifford Odets 9 A Passport from Realengo 18

Josephine Herbst 10 How "Left" Is the N.A.A.C.P?

Loren Miller 12 Poem .•.•.•.........•... Penina Chinitz 13 Our National Parks ....... Julia O'Connor 14 Greetings to John D ................... 15 Love in Two Worlds ........ Ella Winter 17 The Crisi·s in Italy .•....... Bruce Minton 19 Correspondence . . . • . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Review and Comment:

Proletarian· Mystery ... Granville Hicks 23

Graves without Glory ...• Dale Curran 23 Apologists for Capitalism .• Hy Kravif 25 Two Studies of Sex .... Emanual Glick 26 "Just-as-Good" Marxists

Jack Librome 27 Brief Review ••.................... 27

The Theatre: Influence of Ibsen

John Howard Lawson 28 The Screen:

No "Escape" for Negro Artists . Loren Miller 29

At the Cameo •.•.....•••. Peter Ellis 30 Between Ourselves • • . . • . . • . . . . . . • . . . • • 30 Drawings by

Redfield, Jacob Burck, William Gropper, Gardner Rea, Mackey.

Vol. XVI, No. 4 CONTENTS July 23, 1935

Editorial Comment..................... 3 Hearst's Hired Men.................... 6 How the Franco-Soviet Pact Works...... 7 The British Labor Party Surrenders

John Strachey 9 Ryan vs. Bridges

The Longshoremen's Battle, East and West ••..••....•.... Bruce Minton 11

Ten Yeal'S of the I.L.D .•..• Sasha Small 13 A Report on Harlan County

To the Governor of Kentucky........ 16 Comedy Cop ........... James T. Farrell 19 Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • . . • . . . . 23

Review and Comment Flight into the Past •.•... Victor Burtt 25 One of Ours ............... Ben Field 26 One Honest Report. ..... Albert Lewis 26 Ossification .......•...... Tony Clark 27 Brief Review . . . . . . . . . . • . . . . . • . . . . . . 27

Johnson-The Man Who Was Robert Forsythe 28

Hitlerites in Hollywood ........ Jay Rand 29 Between Ourselves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Drawings by

William Sanderson, Russell T. Limbach, William Gropper, Jacob Burck, Art Young, Pages, Esther Kriger.

Vol. XVI, No. 5 CONTENTS July 30, 1935

Editorial Comment..................... 3 Uncle Sam Forecloses................... 6 The Writers Meet in Paris .. Michael Gold 9 The Crisis in the SociaUst Party

Loren Miller 11 A Dialogue on the Piazza ... Alfred Hayes 13 ThoseTheyLeaveBehind .. Ann Rivington 14 Sugar is Not Sweet ....•... Harry Archer 15 Chin Up, Anna ....••.... Friedrich Wolf 18 Correspondence . . . . . . . . • • . . . . . . • . . . . . • . 21 Review and Comment

Poetry in the Modern Theatre John Howard Lawson 23

A Flight from Fact ..... Henry Cooper 24 The Making of a Riga Correspondent

Paul Novick 25 The Wreck of Good Lives •. John Drake 26 Two Pictures of Society

Jay Gerlando 27 Current Art ........... Sidney Alexander 27 Reductio Ad Mercurum ... Robert Forsythe 29 The Screen ........•......... Peter Ellis 30 Between Ourselves . . . . . . . . . . . . . • . . . . • . . 30 Drawings by

Reginald Marsh, Jacob Burck, William Gropper, Mackey, G a r d n e r Rea, Refregier.

VoL. XVI, No. 6 CONTENTS AUGUST 6, 1935

Editorial Comment • • • • . • • . • • . • . . . . . • . . . 3 The War Against War................ 6 Washington Cuts Wages. • • • . . • • . • • . . . . . 7 What Is Happening in Terre Haute

Joseph North 9 The United Front in France

Michael Gold 13 But the Swastika Fell .•... Wilfred Evans 15 From a Soviet Diary ••.. Harold Clurman l8 Deportation Special ...... Theodore Irwin 19 Correspondence . . . . . • . . • • • . . • . . . • . • . . . . 21

Review and Comment The One and Only .... Granville Hicks 23 Pamphlet Poetry ........ Joseph Kalar 24 Answered Sixty-Three Years ago

Sidney Hill 25 Old Russian Soul. •..... E. B. Burgum 26

As Benito Desires Me ..••.... Henry Hart 28 These Russians ..•.....•. Robert Forsythe 29 Between Ourselves • • . . . . . . • • . . . . . . • • • • . 30 Drawings by

Russell T. Limbach, William Gropper, Jacob Burck, Adolph Dehn.

VoL, XVI, No.7 .CONTENTS AUGUST 13, 1935

Editorial Comment •.....•••••• , . . . • • • • • 3 The Peace Policies of Moscow. , . . . • • . • • . 6 Dickstein Gets a Biographer

John L Spivak 9 Southern Organizer •..•. Kenneth Patchen 10 Harlem Without Make-Up

Loren Miller 11 Coniressman Amlie Sees Red

Marguerite Young 16 A Love Letter for France ... Michael Gold 18 Correspondence •...•.•..••.••.• , • . • • • . • 21 Review and Comment

Mr. Jackson Sees It Through Arnold W. Bartell 23

The Peasant Poet .••• Rolfe Humphries 23 Burial of Immortality •••• Stuart Green 25 Literature for Use ...... Bruce Minton 26 Wood Pulpiteer ....... Wilson Waylett 27 Brief Review •• , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , .••• , 27

The Theatre: O'Neill's Technique and Social Phi-

losophy ...... John Howard Lawson 28 Shooting China ............... Mike Pell 29 The Screen ................... Peter Ellis 30 Between Ourselves . . • . • .. • . . .. • . .. .. • • • 30 Drawings by

William Gropper, Russell T. Limbach, Redfield, Mackey, William Sanderson.


Editorial Comment • • . . . . . • . • . • . . • • . . . . 3 Youth Gets Administered. . . . . . . . • . . . . • • 7 The Rise and Fall of Abraham Cahan

Paul Novick 9 Way Down South: • . • . . . . • . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Georgia Is Misunderstoood, by Sasha Small; On Behalf of Angelo Herndon, by Alfred Hirsch; Bloody Sunday, by Boris Israel

Walter Lippmann and Soviet Russia Corliss Lamont 15

On a Soviet Steamer ••.••.••..........• 16 "Our Great Mikado, Virtuous Man"

Mike Pell 18 Monte Allegre .•.••.••.•• Greta Corsman 19 Correspondence . • • . • • • . . • . • • . . • • • • . . • . . 21

Review and Comment From the Literature Without Uniforms

Isidor Schneider 22 Criticism with an Ax .... Angel Flores 23 For Young Revolutionists

R. and F. De Sola 24 Strength and Beauty ..•• Nelson Algren 25 Growth of Dead Soil. .• Louis Lerman 25 Anti-Negro Propaganda .. Loren Miller 26 Made in America ...... Ben Goldstein 26 Brief Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • . . . . • . . • 27

The World by the Tail. •. Robert Forsythe 29 Five Prizes for Playwrights ...••••••••• 30 Between Ourselves • • . • • . • • . • • • . • • • • • • • . 30 Drawings by

William Gropper, Russell T. Limbach, Boris Gorelick, Del, Gardner Rea, Mackey.


Editorial Comment • • • . . . . . . • . . • • . . . . • • 3 General Johnson, Enemy of Labor....... 6 Julius Streicher: Nazi King of Smut

N. Kornev 9 Four Poems: • • . • • . • • . . • • . • • . • • • • • • • • • • 13

Four Frescoes of the Future Genevieve Taggard

Names .•.....•. Gladys M. La Flamme American Etiquette ..•.... H. H. Lewis They Take Their Stand .... Don West

Capital's Fight for a Draft Law Walter Wilson 14

Southern Mother .•.••.... Emmett Gowen 18 Doctor's Dilemma, 1935

Nelson L. Barnett 20

Correspondence .. ·. . • . • • • • . • • • . . . . . . . . • • 21 Review and Comment

On Revolutionary Poetry .••. John Yost 23 Pareto: Apostle of Force and Deception . Hansu Chan 24 Spivak's Amedca ..•.•... Joseph North 25 "Rebellious Race" ••.... H. B. Wolcott 26 Nazi Economics .•.••.•• Arnold Bartell 27 Brief Review . • . . • . . . • . . . . • • • . . • . . . . 27

First Lesson •...•.....•.•• Bruce Minton 29 Between Ourselves . . • • • . • • • . . . . . . . . . . • 30 Drawings by

Russell T. Limbach, William Gropper, Mackey, Emerson Evans, Ned Hilton, Hantman.

VoL. XVI, No. 10 CONTENTS SEPTEMBER 3, 1935

Editorial Comment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Roosevelt Bows to Hearst ............. , 6 NEW MASSES Prize Novel Contest..... 7 My Father Is a Liar.Nancy Bedford-Jones 9 Toward the Mexican Crisis

Charles Wedger 11 Behind Closed Doors ...... Bruce Minton 15 Italy on the Brink ...... Alberto Padovani 17 The Tiff Strikers Win ..... Karl Pretshold 19 Correspu-ndence .. .. .. . • .. . . .. . . . . . . . . . . 21 Review and Comment:

Pareto: Apostle of Force and Deception Hansu Chan 23

Another Story .. , ...... Robert Briffault 25 New Heroes and Heroines.Jack Conroy 27 Stylish Miss Cather

Genevieve Taggard 27 The Theatre

Drama for Both Ears Stanley Burnshaw 28

Praying for Peace ...•... Robert Forsythe 29 The Screen

Fascism Marches On ..•..•. Peter Ellis 29 Between Ourselves .•................... 30 Drawings by

Russell T. Limbach, Jacob Burck. Photographs by Charles Wedger.


Editorial Comment . • • . • • . . • . • • . • . . • • . • . 3 Homage to Barbusse .•.••• Joseph Freeman 8 Cross, Crescent and Star, A Picture of

Palestine ••..•••••.••.... Lester Cohen 11 Work or Starve! ........... Bruce Minton 16 Shorty and Oscar .......... Nev Campbell 18 A Letter from Germany'. • . • • • . • • • • • • • . . 20 Correspondence • . . • • . • • • • . • • . . . • • • . . • . 21 Review and Comment

Reader's Report ••••••••. Alan Calmer 23

A Masterly Polemic .•. Isidor Schneider 25 Not All of Briffault .•. Granville Hicks 27 A Connecticut Valley .. James T. Farrell 28

"Peasants"-A Soviet Triumph Robert Forsythe 29

Between Ourselves . • . • . . . • • . . • • . • • . . . • • 30 Drawings by

Russell T. Limbach, Gardner Rea, Saul Raskin, Ned Hilton.


Editorial Comment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 A Breathing ,Spellbinder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Debate in Geneva. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • . . . . . . 7 Who Murdered the Vets?

Ernest Hemingway 9 Southern Holiday .......... Frank Mlakar 10 Consumers' Research on Strike

Arthur Kallet 12 The Not So-Timid Profession

Elizabeth Blake 13 Vigilantes and Cops:

The Cops Were Not There .......... 16 The Cops Were on the Job

George Martin 17 Two Years of Drought, One of Rust

Michael Blankfort 18

The Closing Session ...... Eugene Gordon 20 Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . • . . . . . . . . . . • 23 Review and Comment

Another View of Briffault Robert Forsythe 24

A Source Book on Corruption Alexander L. Crosby 25

"In the Genteel Tradition" Bernard Smith 26

No Crime and Plenty Punishment Edwin Seaver 27

Peddling Will Rogers' Body ...... Ed Ray 29 Between Ourselves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Drawings by

Russell T. Limbach, William Gropper, Gardner Rea, Mackey.


Editorial Comment • • • • • • • . • • • • • • • • • • • • 3 Labor in Action Again. • • • . • • • • • • • • • • • • 7 The World Gone Mad ••• Robert Forsythe 9 A Labor Party on the Way •••• Carl Reeve 11 Letters from America. • • • • • • • . • • • . • • • . • • 13

Alabama's Blood-Smeared Cotton Albert Jackson

Law and Order in Kansas City Lowell C. Chamberlain

Rain on Our Hands ••. Gladys LaFlamme 14 Last in Peace, Last in War .•• Loren Miller 16 Sacramento: 1935 ••••• Clement Greenberg 18 Americans in Mexico .•••. J. P. Harrigan 19 Hard Coal Law ••..•.•.. Isidor Schneider 20 Correspondence ••••.••••••.••••.••••••• 22 Review and Comment

On the Right We Have-A. B. Magil 23

Emptying the Melting Pot Harry Archer 24

Concealed Dynamite .•• Bernhard Stern 26 The School System Analyzed

Charles Wedger 26 Brief Review • • • • . • .. • .. • . • .. .. .. • • • 27

The Theatre: A Labor Theatre for Brooklyn

Stanley Burnshaw 28 The Screen: Peter Ellis. . . • • • • . .. . • • . .. • • 28 Charlie Chaplin's Next Film

B. ,Shumiatski 29 Between Ourselves • • • . • • • • • • • . • • . • • • . • • 30 Drawings by

Gardner Rea, Russell T. Limbach, Eugene Morley, Ned Hilton, L. Arena!, Eugene Cooper.

Vor.. XVII, No. 1 CONTENTS OCTOBER 1, 1935

Editorial Comment . . . • . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • 3 What Happens to "Unemployables"...... 6 How Good Is Hearst Stock? .. Bruce Minton 8 Farewell and a Promise to Barbusse

Josephine Herbst 11 Minneapolis Counts Its Victims

Meridel Le Sueur 12 Mussolini's Press .•....•••• James Carroll 15 Art Section:

Revolutionary Art Today Thomas S. Willison 17

Works by .•.• William Gropper, Peggy Bacon, Selma Freeman, Gilbert Wilson, Louis Ribak, William Siegel, George Picken, Joe Jones, Arnold Blanch, Russell Limbach, Reginald Marsh, Joseph Vogel, Gilbert Rocke, Jacob Burck, Lil Adelman, Anton Refregier, Eitaro lshigaki, Georges Schreiber, George Biddle, Raphael Soyer, Jim {iuy, Luis Arena!, Nicolai Cikovsky, Mabel

Dwight, Adolf Dehn, Peter Blume, Mitchell Siporin, Margaret Bourke-White ....•.......••.•.•..•..... 18 to 32

American Artists' Congress ..........•••. 33 Marching! Marching!. Clara Weatherwax 34 Correspondence ••.......•......••••..•• 36 Review and Comment

Journalism in a New World Isidor Schneider 38

Economists on the Way Out Marian Rubins Davis 39

There Can Be Laughter William Cunningham 40

Turmoil in the Middle Ground Stanley Burnshaw 41

Mr. Aiken at a Wake ••.. Simon Wells 42 In Defense of the Machine

Robert Forsythe 43 Hollywood as Strike Breaker ..... Ed Ray 44 The Screen ............... Jay Gerlando 45 The Theater ...••.••.......•.•••. H. M. 45 Between Ourselves . . . . . . . . . . . . • • • . • • . • . 46

VoL. XVII, No. 2 CONTENTS OCTOBER 8, 1935

Editorial Comment • • . . . . . . . . • • . . . . . . . . . 3 Mr. Gannett is Worried................ 7 Stay Out of the Olympics!

William Cunningham 9 Close Up This House ••.•. Joseph Bridges 10 A Revolution in Cotton

The Machine Picker Opens Up an Era of Greater Struggle .. Harold M. Ware 11

Lessons ........ : ............. Saul Green 16 Joe Louis Uncovers Dynamite

Richard Wright 18 Correspondence ........................ 19 The Artists Fight Hearst

Alfred H. Sinks 20

Reviews and Comment Sad Nonsense ........ Isidor Schneider 22 More About Mexico .. Charles Wedger 23 Lewis Carroll ...••..•. Louis Zukofsky 24 Texas Chain Gang and Finnish Prison

Norman MacLeod 24 Scien<;e at the Crossroads •.•. G. Gaard 25

Hearts of Gold, Heads of-Robert Forsythe 28

The Screen .•..•...••.. H. MacMurrough 29 Between Ourselves • • . • • • • . . . • . . . . . . . . • • 30 Drawings by

William Gropper, Russell T. Limbach, Eugene Morley, Julius Bloch.


Editorial Comment ................. , ... , 3 The Making of a Revolutionary •.•••.. , , 7 Earl Browder Reports.................. 8 A World War: Has It Begun?

Ilya Ehrenbourg 10 John Strachey 11

Hot Cargo on the Coast •••• Amy Schechter 12 The Legion Convenes .•••.. Samuel Leslie 13 Imitation of an Anti-Crime Drive

Sasha Small 15 America 1918 ................ John Reed 17 Enduring Bronze ••.••••• Heywood Broun 20 Correspondence • • • • • • • . . • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 22 Review and Comment

Proletarian Literature Robert Morss Lovett 23

Along the Oregon Trail James Hennessey 24

An Achievement in Two Arts Stephen Alexander 25

Working-Class Unity-Bulwark Against Fascism .......... Isidor Schneider 26

Music An Interview with Hanns Eisler

Tony Clark 27 The Theater

"Paths of Glory" Dramatized Stanley Burnshaw 28

Author Trouble at Warners' Robert Forsythe 29

Between Ourselves • • . • . . . . . • • . • • • • . . . . • 30 Drawings by Mackey, William Gropper,

Redfield, Lynd Ward.


Editorial Comment • • . • • . • • . • . . . . • . . . • . . 3 Imperialism, Not a Race War.......... 7 Ten Mooney Cases!. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 What Is Britain's Game? .. John Strachey 10 Europe's Crisis: Japan Prepares

Hansu Chan 11 Looking For Elmer .............. J. S. B. 14 Three Lynch Affidavits By Alabama

Sharecroppers • • .. • . . . • • . • • . • • . . • • . . 16 The A.F. of L. in Session ••.. Bill Dunne 18 Labor Trouble in Harlem ... Loren Miiler 20 "Number One Boy" ••••.... Alfred Hirsch 20 Cells ...........•••.•.•..... James King 21 Correspondence • • . • . . • • . • • • • . . • • . . • • . • • 22 Review and Comment:

Socialist Realism ....... Edwin Seaver 23 Empire of Death .... Harvey O'Connor 24

What Bosses Are Like Edwin Berry Burgum 25

Educating the Middle Class Granviiie Hicks 26

Tiny and Graceful. ...••. Obed Brooks 27 Another Professor Joke ... Simon Wells 27

The Theater: "New Theater Night''

Stanley Burnshaw 28 "The Reapers" ...•..•... Joseph North 28

The Screen: Here Comes Hollywood

Richard Hammer 29 Sell Entertainment .......•• Peter Ellis 30

Between Ourselves ••.•••..........••.•• 30 Drawings by

Wiiiiam Gropper, Russell T. Limbach, George Dickson, Mackey.

Photograph by Consuela Kanaga.

Vor.. XVII, No. 5 CONTENTS OC'fOBER 29, 1935

Editorial Comment • • . . • . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 The World This Week................. 6 The Gallup Verdict.................... 7 Capitalism Cannot Demobilize

John Strachey 9 Are Jews Communists?

James Waterman Wise 10 The Explosion in the A.F. of L.

Bill Dunne 11 Advertisement .•.•..•...... Oscar Byrnes 12 Canada Swings to the Left ... Robert Bruce 14 Pelzer: "Just Another of Those Damned

Strike Towns" ••.•.•••• Fielding Burke 16 Correspondence ••..•.•.••..•..••..••.••• 19 Shaw and Mussolini. ..... Joseph Freeman 20

Review and Comment Sinclair Lewis-Anti-Fascist

Granville Hicks 22 Let My People Go! ...... Loren Miller 23 Two Escapes ...•••••. Isidor Schneider 24 Within Such Walls .•...•. Boris Israel 25

Music: "Useful" Music ....••.. Henry Cowell 26

The Theater: A Letter to the Author of "Squaring

the Circle" ...... Stanley Burnshaw 27 The Wails of St. Mary's .. Robert Forsythe 29 Current Art . • . . . . • • • • . • . . . . . . . . • . • • . • • 30 Between Ourselves . . . • . . . . • • . . • • . • • . . . . 30 Drawings by

Russell T. Limbach, William Gropper, Boris Gorelick, Joe Jones.

VoL. XVII, No. 6 CONTENTS NovEMBER 5, 1935

Editorial Comment • • . • • • . . . • • . . • . • • . • • • 3 The Guild Girds for Battle............. 6 Mr. Baldwin's Lull ••...... John Strachey 8 Can Mussolini Win the• War?

David Ramsey 9 Marx in the Mountains .••. Eddy Gilmore 12 Our Olympics: Made in Germany

Bruce Minton 13 Angelo Herndon is Back in Atlanta

Joseph North 15 Poem •........••.•..... Kenneth Patchen 16 Seeing Is Believing •........ Meta Berger 17 Harvard Swears .•.......... Merle Colby 18 Clemency-Sixty Years! ...... Sue Adams 19 Ode to Walt Whitman ..... Michael Gold 21 Correspondence. • . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • 22 Review and Comment

I.M.P.-A Literary Casualty Dale Curran 23

A Yankee Tragedy ... Granville Hicks 24 Science-A Collective Enterprise

Harold Ward 24 Another Southern Novelist Falls in Line

E. Clay 25 An Artist Prescribes

Stephen Alexander 26 Middle-Class American Tragedy

James T. Farrell 27 Post-Mortem Million ......•. Leslie Reade 28 The Theater:

Porgy and Bess and Mulatto Loren Miller 29

Current Film~ ................•......•.. 30 Between Ourselves . . . • . • . • • . . . . . . . • . • . . 30 Drawings by

Mackey, Crockett Johnson, William Gropper.

VoL. XVII, No.7 CONTENTS NOVEMBER 12, 1935

Editorial Comment ....... , .. . . . . . .. . . . . 3 Eighteen Years-Two Countries, ...... ,. 6 On the Conveyor Belt to Death

John Strachey 8 Chain Gang Governor ...... Joseph North 9 Radio's Role as Red-Baiter .... J. R. Atkins 12 Where Smedley Butler Stands

Walter Wilson 15 Tompkins Square Park at 6 A. M.

Matthew Schaeffer 18 The Outlook for the Labor Party

" Carl Reeve 19 Correspondence ...... , ........ , ........ , 21 Review and Comment:

The Real South ....... Granville Hicks 23 Pirandello Didn't Know Him

Jay Gerlando 23 Lindbergh's Classmate ... Bruce Minton 24

Dream-World Art., ..... Jacob Kainen 25 A Marxist Looks at His Humanist

Past .......... , .... Samuel Putnam 26 Wells Shapes the Future

Walter Ralston 26 The Theater:

Announcing an American Peoples' Theater, , .. , , ..... , . Mark Marvin 27

Art: From Nat Turner to the Moscow Sub-

way ... , , , , .... , . , , , . Hugo Gellert 28 "The New Gulliver",,., .Robert Forsythe 29 Current Art .... , . , , . , , , . , . . . . . . . . . . . • . 30 Between Ourselves ....... , ..... ,, ....... 30 Drawings by

Russell T. Limbach, William Gropper, Emerson Evans, William Siegel.

VoL. XVII, No. 8 CONTENTS NOVEMBER 19, 1935

Editorial Comment • .. . .. . . . . . . . . . .. .. • 3 "Fats! Fats ! Fats ! " ......•. John Strachey 8 Major Bowes' Radio Racket .. Henry Cowell 9 Saturday Evening Liar ....... Bob Brown 10 There Lived a Man in Our Town

Ruth Crawford 13 The Women's Battalion •... Martin Russak 15 Two Poems ................. Irving Bard 18 Browder and Roosevelt .. Moissaye J. Olgin 19 Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Review and Comment Small Game Hunting .. Granville Hicks 23 A New World Seen Through One Man

Isidor Schneider 23

A Proprietarian Society Walter Ralston 25

America's Biggest Business Horace B. Davis 25

The Theater: Let Freedom Ring .•.• James T. Farrell 27

Art: Orozco's Lithographs Stephen Alexander 29

"We Make Stars" ...••....... J as par Gall 29 Mary Burns, Fugitive ......... Peter Ellis 30 Between Ourselves • . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Drawings by

Russell T. Limbach. Mackey, Gardner Rea, William Gropper, Jose Clemente Orozco, Hainsly.

VoL. XVII, No. 9 CONTENTS NOVEMBER 26, 1935

Editorial Comment •• , •••••• , , , , , , , • , , • 3 We "Free" the Filipinos................ 6 Conspiracy in Brooklyn., •• ,,,, •. ,., ••• , 8 The British Elections .•....• John Strachey 9 March of the Cripples ..••...• Bob Brown 10 U.S.S.R.: Land of Plenty ... Joshua Kunitz 12 John Reed and the World War

1: "This Is Not Our War" Granville Hicks 15

Correspondence . . • . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Review and Comment

Escape or ,Suicide .... Robert M. Coates 21 An Epic of Collectivization

Granville Hicks 22 Farmers in Rebellion .•. Karl Pretshold 23

The Bourgeois Revolution .. Tony Clark 24 SoTiet Art., •••.•• Russell T. Limbach 25

In the "Let Freedom Ring'' Country William F. Dunne 26

The Theater: Dead-End Social Order

Stanley Burnshaw 28 Art:

In Search of Truth Stephen Alexander 29

La Maternelle ..........••.... Peter Ellis 30 Between Ourselves . . . . . . . . . . . . • • . . • . . . . 30 Drawings by

Gropper, Limbach, Eby, Dixon, Joe Jones, Sanderson.

VoL. XVII, No. 10 CONTENTS DECEMBER 3, 1935

Editorial Comment , • . • • • • • • . . . • . . . . • . • • 3 The Battle of the Loans .... John Strachey 6 Who is General Sherrill?

Henry Cooper and Walter Wilson 8 Industrial Insurance, A Snare for Workers

Mort Gilbert and E. A. Gilbert 14 John Reed and Teddy Roosevelt

Granville Hicks 17 Correspondence . • • • • . • • . . . • • . . . . . . . • . . . 22 Review and Comment

Better . than "Call Home the Heart" Granville Hicks 23

May It Please the Court •• Loren Miller 23 Capitalism's Ally ••.••••. S. W. Gerson 24

The Moral Equivalent Isidor Schneider 25

Life Without Stint ••.. Josephine Herbst 26 The Theater:

The Theater Union Produces "Mother" Stanley Burnshaw 27

Boulevardier ••..•.••...•• Robert Forsythe 29 Art:

Kerr Eby .•.••.•••. Stephen Alexander 29 Between Ourselves . • • • • . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Drawings by

William Gropper, Vincent Van Gogh, Maurice Becker, Otto Dix, Russell T. Limbach, Adolf Dehn, Gus Peck.


Editorial Comment • • . • • • • . • • • • • • • • • • • • • 3

Revolt in Brazil........................ 6 ·

The Thomas-Browder Debate........... 7

Italy and Germany ........ John Strachey 9

The Nazis' Olympic Chief Talks John L. Spivak 10

Why Lewis Resigned .. William F. Dunne 12

The ·Klan Turns to Murder Bruce Minton 13

Blank College Revisited ..• Joseph Bridges 16

Battle of the Century Emanuel Eisenberg 18

Correspondence • • . • • • • • • • . • • • • • . . • . • • • • 21

Review and Comment: Caldwell Sees America •• Albert Halper 22 Marxist Literary History

Isidor Schneider 23 Thought-Ruled or Ruling?

Ruth Lechlitner 25 Hull House Reconsidered .• E. H. Nielson 26 Brief Rev.iew • • . • • • • • . • • • . . • • . • • . • • • 26

The Dance: Five Dancers in Fourteen New Works

Stanley Burnshaw 27 Current Theater. . . . . . • . . . . . . . . . . . . . • • • • 28 "So Red the Rose" ...••.•. Robert Forsythe 29 Between Ourselves • • . • • . • . • • . • • • • . • • • • . 30 Drawings by

William Gropper, Mendez, Russell T. Limbach, A. Redfield.


Editorial Comment •••••••••.••..•...••. Christmas, 1935 ••.••••.••. Sinclair Lewis "Hail ye Heroes, Heav'n Born Band"

Franklin P. Adams Blackmailing Ethiopia ••.•• John Strachey 7

La Madama Smiles ••.•.. John L. Spivak 8 The Guild Cracks Down

Marguerite Young 11 Fred Bass and the Norman Case

Bruce Minton 12 United Front Opens Herndon's Jail

Joseph North 15 Choral Ballade ••.•... Emanuel Eisenberg 16 Bill Smith's Clinic ....•.••.•.. Bill Smith 18 "Shirley Temple, You Traitor!"

Arthur Kober 20 School Days ......•...•.. Arthur Beecher 21 The Green, White and Blue

George S. Kaufman 22 The German Girls! The German Girls!

Archibald MacLeish 23 John O'Hara's Dilemma .•.. Jobn O'Hara 26 Passion and Prices in Nazi Land

J. Dickty 27 Clerical Crape ......•..•. W. E. Farbstein 27 Red Nettles .•.... Harry Thornton Moore 28 \Va r Fever .•....••.•.. Lawrence Lipton 29

Wall Street's Prayer to Father Coughlin Albert Raffi 30

"Thunder Over Alma Mater" S. J. Perelman 32

John Reed in Czarist Russia Granville Hicks 33

Correspondence • • . • . . . . . . . . . • • . . . . . . . • • 3 8 Review and Comment

A New Magazine .•.••.• Alan Calmer 39 The Dilemma of the Middle Class

David Ramsey 40 The Eye and the Mind .... Lynd Ward 42

The Theater No Tears for the Virgins

Bruce Minton 43 A Spoonful of History .. James T. Farrell 44

Why I Am Not a Fascist. .Robert Forsythe 45 Two Dostoyevskis •......... Peter Ellis 46

Between Ourselves .•.......••.......•... 46

Drawings by Limbach, Morley, Gardner Rea, Chas. Addams, A. Redfield, Adolf Dehn, Ned Hilton, William Gropper, Robt Day, William Steig, Frank t!anley, Wolfe, Garrett Price, Art Young, Aime Gauvin, Franz Masereel, Ellison Hoover, Ernest W. Hainsly.


Editorial Comment •...•••..••.•.••• , . • • 3 Tokio the Insatiable . • . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 The Split in Britain •..•... John Strachey 8 The U. S. Army Gets Its Orders

George Seldes 9 II Duce's Labor Racket .•.. John L. Spivak 11 The People Demand .... Mericle! Le Sueur 14 One of Us ............... Leane Zugsmith 16 What Do You See ........ Frank Rudnick 17 Along Came Stakhanov .... Joshua Kunitz 18 Correspondence . . . • . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • 21 Review and Comment

Which Books for Your Children? Jean Simon 23

Facts Is Facts ..•••..•. Walter Ralston 25 Two Jeffersonian Poets

Granville Hicks 26 Justice-For Millionaires

George Abrams 26 Art

Chicago's Art Show Wallace S. Baldinger 27

The Theater "Paradise Lost" ....•.. Robert Forsythe 28

Between Ourselves ....•.••...•.......... 30 Drawings by

Alexandre Hogue, Gardner Rea, Russell T. Limbach, William Gropper, Deni.

VoL. XVIII, No. 1 CONTENTS DECEMBER 31, 1935

Editorial Comment . . . . .. . . . .. . . . .. .. . .. 3 What Kind of Recovery?. .. . . . . .. .. • .. . . 6 What the Victory Means ...• John ,Strachey 8 The Assumption of Song

Norman Macleod 8 The Underground Speaks .• John L. Spivak 9 Storm ................. David Greenhood 12 Vermont People's Front, 1776-1936

Jack Wilgus 13 How "Under Fire" Was Published

Simone Tery 14 I Met a Man ............ Irving Fineman 14 Macaroni for Africa ..... Grace Flandrau 15 Perspective .•......•....... H. H. Lewis 16

· Rain in Virginia ........ Lester G. Cohen 17 John Reed and The Old Masses

Granville Hicks 18 Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Review and Comment Eliot, Auden, Isherwood, Cummings

Rolfe Humphries 23 The Chinese Revolution

Isidor Schneider 24 Prerequisites of Growth

Edward Newhouse 25 Sweet Impartiality •. Emanuel Eisenberg 26 Brief Review • . . . . . . . . . . . • • . . • . • • • • • 26

The Theater Principles of "Educational" Theater

Eva Goldbeck 21.1 Why I Created "Air City"

Alexander Dovjenko 29 Between Ourselves., ....•..••••.•..••.•• 30 Drawings by Russell T. Limbach, William

Gropper, George Picken. Photograph by Irving Lerner.