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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,

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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.

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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.


JOSHUA KUNITZ, RUSSELL T. LIMBACH, HERMAN MICHELSON, JOSEPH NORTH, ASHLEY PETTIS, WILLIAM RANDORF,

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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.


JOSHUA KUNITZ, RUSSELL T. LIMBACH, HERMAN MICHELSON, JOSEPH NORTH, ASHLEY PETTIS, WILLIAM RANDORF.

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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,

ASHLEY PETTIS, WILLIAM RANDORF.

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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,

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;


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