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.
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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
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.
VoL. XIV, No. 2 CONTENTS JANUARY 8, 1935
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.
VoL. XIV, No. 3 CONTENTS JANUARY 15, 1935
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
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.
VoL. XIV, No. 5 CONTENTS JANUARY 29, 1935
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
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
VoL. XIV, No. 8 CONTENTS FEBRUARY 19, 1935
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.
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
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 Page 11 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
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?
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.
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
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
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,
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. •• ~ , •
VoL. XV, No. 5 CONTENTS APRIL 30, 1934
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
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
JosHUA KUNITZ, RUSSELL T. LIMBACH, HERMAN MICHELSON, JOSEPH NORTH, AsHLEY PETTIS, WILLIAM RANDORF.
WILLIAM BROWDER, Business Manager. ALLAN TAUB, Mid-Tf/estern Representative. Published weekly by the NEW MASSES, INC., at 81 East 27th Street, New York City. Copyright, 1936, NEW 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 act of March 3, I879. Single copies, 10 cents. Subscription, $3.50 a year in U. S. and Colonies and Mexioo. Six months $2 ; three months $1 : Foreign $4.50 a year : six months $2.50 : three months $1.26. Subaeribera are notified that no change of address can be effected in less than 2 weeks. THE NEW MASSES 171 welcomes the work of new writers, in prose and verse, and of artists. MSS must be accom- ~ panled by return postage. THE NEW MAssES pays for contributions.
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.
JOSHUA KUNITZ, RUSSELL T. LIMBACH, HERMAN MICHELSON, JOSEPH NORTH,
AsHLEY PETTIS, WILLIAM RANDORF.
WILLIAM BROWDER, Business Manager. ALLAN TAus, Mid-Western Representati'Ve.
Published weekly by the NEW MAI!BES, INC., at 81 East 27th Street, New York City. Copyright, 1936, NBW MAIIBEB, INC., Reg, U. S. Patent Office. Drawings and text may not be reprinted without permission. Entered aa second-clasa matter, June 24, 1926, at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. Single copies, 10 cents. Subscription, $3.60 a year In U. S. and Colonies and Mexloo. Sb: months $2 : three months $1 ; Foreign $4.60 a year : six months $2.60 ; three months $1.26. Subscribers are notified that no ehange of address can be effected In lesa than 2 weeks. THE NEW MASSES 17~ welcomes the work of new writers, In prose and verse, and of artists. MSS must be accom- ,..,.. panled by return POstage. THE NEW MAssES pay• for contributio!lll. ' . '
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"
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
JOSHUA KUNITZ, RUSSELL T. LIMBACH, HERMAN MICHELSON, JOSEPH NORTH, ASHLEY PETTIS, WILLIAM RANDORF,
WILLIAM BROWDER, Business Manager 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 8, 1879. Single copies, 10 cents. Subscription, $3.50 a year In U. S. and Colonies and Mexioo. Sb: montha $2 ; three months $1 ; Foreign $4.60 a year; six months $2.50 ; three months $1.26. Subscriber& are notified that no change of address can be effected in less than 2 weeks. THI! NEW MASSES 171 weloomes the work of new writers, In proae and verae, and of artists. MSS must be accom- ..... panied by return postage. THE NEW MASSES I>BYI for contributions. • ~ :--
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?
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.
JOSHUA KUNITZ, RUSSELL T. LIMBACH, HERMAN MICHELSON, JOSEPH NORTH, ASHLEY PETTIS, WILLIAM RANDORF.
WILLIAM BROWDER, Business Manager Published weekly by the NEW MASSES, INC., at 81 East 27th Street, New York City. Copyright, 1935, NEW MASSES, INc., Reg. U. S. Patent Office. Drawings and text may not be reprinted without permiBSion. 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, $3.60 a year in U. S. and Colonies and Mexioo. Sh months $2 ; three months $1 ; Foreign $4.60 a year; aix months $2.50 ; three months $1.26. Subscrihen ar<- notified that no change of addreaa can be effeeted in leas than 2 weeks. THE NEW MASSES 171 welcomes the work of new writers, in prose and verse, and of artists. MSS must be accom- ~ panied by return postage. THE NEW MASSES paya for contributions. ·
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
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,
ASHLEY PETTIS, WILLIAM RANDORF.
WILLIAM BROWDER, Business Manager Published weekly by the NEW MASSES, INC., at 31 East 27th Street, New York City. Mid West Bureau, 184 West Washington Street, Room 703, Chicago. Copyright, 1935, NEW MAssEs, INc., Reg. U. S. Patent Office. Drawings and text may not be reprinted without permission. Entered as second-class matter, June 24, i926, at the Post Office at New York, N.Y., under the aet of March 3, 1879. Single copies, 10 cents. Subscriptions, $3.50 a year in U. S. and Colonies and Mexico. Six months $2 ; three months $1 ; Foreign $4.50 a year ; six months $2.50 ; three months $1.26. Subscribers are notified that no change in address can be effeeted in less than two weeks. THE NEW MAssEs welcomes the work of new writers, in prose and verse, and of artists. Manuscripts and drawings must be accompanied by return pastage~ THE NEW MASSES pays for contributions.
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,
AsHLEY PETTIS, WILLIAM RANDORF.
WILLIAM BROWDER, Business Manager Published weekly by the NEW MASSES, INc., at 31 East 27th Street, New York City. Mid West Bureau, 184 West Washington Street, Room 703, Chicago. Copyright, 1935, NEW 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 act of March 3, 1879. Single copies, 10 cents. Subscriptions, $3.50 a year in U. S. and Colonies and Mexico. Six months $2 ; three months $1 ; Foreign $4.50 a year ; six months $2.50; three months $1.25. Subscribers are notified that no change in address can be etlected in less than two wee.ks. THE NEw MASSES welcomes the work of new writers, in prose and verse, and of artists. Manuscripts and drawings must be accompanied by return postage. THE NEW MASSES pays for contributions.
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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
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,
AsHLEY PETTIS, WILLIAM RANDORF.
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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,
AsHLEY PETIIS, WILLIAM RANDORF.
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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 Zacharofl' 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 Brifl'ault 22
Singer of the Gumbo •••••• Jack Balch 24 Join Hand and Brain.Meridel LeSueur 25 The Evidence for Soviet Russia
Isidor 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 William Sanderson, William Gropper, Jacob Burck, E. Cooper.
EDITORS: MICHAEL GoLD, GRANVILLE HICKS, ORRICK JOHNS, JOSHUA KUNITZ,
RUSSELL T. LIMBACH, HERMAN MICHELSON, LoREN MILLER, JOSEPH NORTH;
AsHLEY PETTIS, WILLIAM RANDORF.
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