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NEW MASSES, VOL. XXX, No, 2 January 3, 1939 Covering Up for Coster by Paul G. McManus . 3 To the Dead of the International Brigade A Poem by S. Funaroff . • • 4 Juanita and Dolores by Winifred Bates . 5 They Still Draw Pictures 7 Goosestep in Hungary? by I. Gibson Ziegler 8 Maritime Wages • 8 A Catholic's View . 9 Editorial Comment • . 11 Weeping Is Not Enough by Robert Forsythe 14 Vicente Lombardo Toledano by Hu Williamson 15 At Least the Children A Short Story by Marjorie Brace . 18 In the Depot ••. Refugees A Poem by Nancy Cardozo 19 Readers' Forum 21 REVIEW AND COMMENT Proletarian Short Stories by Arnold Shukotoff . 22 Social Poet by Willard Maas 23 Voltairean History by William Blake . 24 New York Panorama by Richard H. Rovere . 24 Santa Fe by Norman ~!acleod . 26 SIGHTS AND SOUNDS From Spirituals to Swing by John Sebastian 27 A Year off My Life by James Dugan • • 28 Art work by B. V alloton (cover), Fred Ellis, Mischa Richter, William Gropper, Ad Reinhardt, A. Redfield, Ben Yomen, D. Connelly, Charles Martin, Saul Baizerman, Stanley DeGraff, Frank Davidson. NEW MASSES, VOL. XXX, No. S January 10, 1939 Tom Mooney's Day by Michael Gold . 3 Offensive in Spain by Sam Russell • 7 What Can the Jews Do? by Bertrand E. Pollans 8 Nazi Lullaby A Poem by Arthur M. .Saxe . 10 The Student Convention by Richard H. Rovere 11 Editorial Comment . 13 Their Last Refuge by Robert Forsythe 16 Note for the Superintendent A Poem by Marshall Schacht 16 Faster, Farther, Higher by Lucien Zacharoff . 17 Salvation Home A Short Story by M eridel LeSueur 19 Hearst Strike by Jay Thomas 20 Readers' Forum 21 REVIEW AND COMMENT Why Read the Old Writers? by Clarence Weinstock 22 America's Stake in the Far East by Theodore Draper 23 Anti-Slavery Leader by Herbert A pth~ker 24 Terror in Majorca by Robert Terral! . 26 SIGHTS AND SOUNDS Revolution in the Caucasus by James Dugan 27 Half a Great Play by H. M. 27 Vaudeville Again by J. C. 31 Dedication to Democracy by Owen Burke 31 Art work by Hugo Gellert (cover), Robert Minor, Boardman Robinson, Victor Szucs, William Gropper, Soriano, Mischa Richter, Fred Ellis, J. Bartlett, Adolf Dehn, Chet La More, Charles Martin, Lena Gurr. NEW MASSES, VOL. XXX, No. 4 January 17, 1939 Plotting Another Munich by Richard Goodman 3 Meet the Italians by Sam Russell . 5 Arms and the People by Theodore Draper 6 War and the Press by Carl Macauley • 9 Editorial Comment . 11 Gimme the Old Wood-Burners! by Robert Forsythe 14 Mooney on Market Street by A l Richmond . 15 Pan-American Program by Samuel Putnam . 17 Primer for a Young Fink A Short Story by Benjamin Appel 19 Slum Street A Poem by Raphael Hayes 20 Readers' Forum 22 REVIEW AND COMMENT Technicians Turn to Life by Upton Sinclair 23 Jim Farley by John Stuart . 24 Generals Without Brains by Robert Terrall 25 Deserter's Plea by Arthur .P . ogt . 26 Enlightened Capitalism by Joseph Hastings . 27 SIGHTS AND SOUNDS What Is an Anti-War Movie? by James Dugan 28 Gentle People in Trouble by H. M. • 29 Pink Slip, Pinocchio, etc. by Owen Burke • . 31 Art work by B. Valloton (cover), Lou Hirshman, A. Ajay, Ad Reinhardt, William Gropper, Mischa Richter, A. H. Small, Colin Allen, Gregory, Frank Davidson, Ben Yomen, John Heliker, Eastwood. NEW MASSES, VOL. XXX, No. 5 January 24, 1939 Let 'em Eat Pink Slips by Adam Lapin 3 Success Story A Poem by A !fred Hayes . 4 Chicago Strikes Hearst by Thomas Ryan 5 Editorial Comment . 9 Some Remarks on Race Hatred by Robert Forsythe 12 Peace Grows 85 Percent by Samuel Sillen 13 Don't Burn the Books! A Survey on the WPA Arts Projects 15 United American Sculptors' Show . 17 Solo Flight A Short Story by Alvah C. Bessie 18 Reader's Forum 20 REVIEW AND COMMENT A Literary Pogrom by Samuel Putnam 22 Marxist Theory by D. 1. Struik 23 Negroes Against the Confederacy by Stephen Peabody 24 The Real Don Juan by Barbara Giles . 25 Bronte Sisters by Millen Brand . 25 A Magazine for Progressives by 1 oseph Starobin 26 Brief Review by Milton Meltzer 26 SIGHTS AND SOUNDS Church of and for the People by Ruth McKenney 27 Roots of Treason by lames Dugan 27 Szigeti, Petri, and Goodman by 1 ohn Sebastian 29 Dancer's Return by Owen Burke . 31 Art work by Soriano (cover), Ad Reinhardt, Getz, William Gropper, Mischa Richter, Louis Ferstadt, Fred Ellis, Charles Martin, Chet La More, Malman. NEW MASSES, VOL. XXX, No. 6 January 31, 1939 Mobilization Notice! An Editorial 3 Forecast to 1940 by David Ramsey 4 Where Murder Is Safe by Robert Ange and Richard H. Rovere • • • • • • • . • • • • • 7 We Shall Love A Poem by Alexander F. Bergman 8 Why Kluckhohn Left by Hu Williamson • . 9 Editorial Comment . • • . • • • • • • • 11 Is the Theater a Waste of Time? by Robert Forsythe 14 The Itch by r. I. Lenin • • • • • • • 15 Cancer and Economics by J. B. S. Haldane 18 American Artists Congress Show 19 Readers' Forum • • • • 20 REVIEW AND COMMENT Karel Capek by F. C. Weiskopf • • • • 21 Revolutionary Artist by Louis Lozowick • • 22 Expatriate's Autobiography by Granville Hicks 23 APpro-ach to Music by R. D. Darrell • 24 About Spain by Joy Davidman • • • 24 The Refugee Problem by Charles Recht 25 Cheap Fake by Robert Terral/ 25 Brief Review by Helen Bur/in • 26 SIGHTS AND SOUNDS The New Movies by James Dugan • . 27 Noel Coward's New Offering by Ruth McKenney 28 Four Art Exhibitions by Elizabeth Noble 28 People's Music by John Sebastian 29 Dance Events by Owen Burke 31 Art work by Hugo Gellert (cover), Gardner Rea, Mischa Richter, A. Ajay, William Gropper, Charles Martin, Hirschfeld, Sid. Gotcliffe. NEW MASSES, VOL. XXX, No. 7 February 7, 1939 Strategy after Barcelona by Capt. Walter E. Williams 4 TIMEfascist Number One by Eustace Tilley 7 From This Confusion A Poem by Marshall Schacht 8 No Dies for Winrod by Robert Ange • • • • 9 Editorial Comment • . • . • . • 10 The Rake's Progress by S. J. Perelman (batting for Forsythe) 14 Road to the East by F. C. Weiskopf . • • . • 15 The Big Strike by Ruth McKenney • • • • • . 17 A Chinese Peasant Speaks A Poem by James Bertram 18 Readers' Forum • • • . • . 21 REVIEW AND COMMENT Cheer Up, Forsythe by Samuel Sillen 22 Faulkner's New Novel by Edwin Berry Burgum 23 Folk Literature by David Silver • • 24 Spokesman for Unity by George Speyer 25 Kansas Poet by Joy DaviJman 26 Books and Authors • • • • 27 SIGHTS AND SOUNDS Lenin, Stalin, and Ivan by James Dugan • 28 Written in Anger by Ruth McKenney • . 29 "A Song about America" by Garret Conarty 30 Charles Ives at Last by John Sebastian • • 30 Art work by B. Valloton (cover), Ad Reinhardt, William Grop per, Mischa Richter, Crockett Johnson, Joe Bartlett, Ned Hilton, A. Ajay, A. Walkowitz, Shiro Miyazaki, Charles Martin. NEW MASSES, VOL. XXX, NO. 8 February 14, 1939 On the American Dead in Spain, by Ernest Hemingway 3 The Lincoln Battalion in Pictures, with story by Joseph North . • . • . 4 The Political Commissar in Spain-! by R. Luc . 12 What's Happening on the Embargo by Paul G. McManus 14 Jericho A Poem by Alexander F. Bergman 15 Banta Grins by Will Rivers . 16 Intellectual Freedom by Franz Boas 17 Editorial Comment 19 Readers' Forum 22 REVIEW AND COMMENT Old Abe Lincoln in 1939 by Samuel Sillen 23 "Sirocco" by Granville Hicks . 25 "Air Raid," by Richard H. Rovere 27 Books and Authors . 27 SIGHTS AND SOUNDS Housing Goes to Town by lames Dugan 28 "Jeremiah" by Garret Conarty . 30 King Hal by Ruth McKenney . 31 Cover design by I. N. Steinberg. Art work by William Gropper, Mischa Richter, S. F. Ramsey, Ad Reinhardt, Scheel. NEW MASSES, VOL. XXX, NO. 9 February 21, 1939 Why the British Labor Party Expelled Me by Sir Stafford Cripps • • • . • . 3 How to Wreck a Union by Smith F. Bixler 5 The Hunters A Poem by Sidney Alexander . 7 Dachau: Foundation of the Third Reich by Martin Ander- sen Nexo 8 This Is Station AFRA by Milton Meltzer 11 The Political Commissar in Spain by R. Luc 12 A Brave Man is Dead by Granville Hicks . 14 Thanks for the Brickbats by Robert Forsythe 15 Editorial Comment 17 Front-Page Liars 21 Reader's Forum 22 REVIEW AND COMMENT Gay Rhymes for the People by C. Day Lewis 23 Max Lerner's Credo by A. B. Magi! . 25 Fearing's New Poems by Kenneth Burke . 27 SIGHTS AND SOUNDS Child Labor Movie by James Dugan 29 Bad Week on Broadway by Ruth McKenney 30 Dancers and Society by Owen Burke • . 31 Art work by Mischa Richter, Gardner Rea, William Gropper, AI Hirschfeld, Ad Reinhardt, Nils Berg, Georges Schreiber, John Lonergan. NEW MASSES, VOL. XXX. NO. 10 February 28, 1939 Hitler Woke Me Up by J. B.S. Haldane • . 3 A Nazi Agent at Work by Erskine Caldwell 5 Dear American Citizen by Lene Reiner • • . • . 7 Spring Song Before Its Season A Poem by Norman Rosten 8 When Franco Comes to Town by Roberto Miro . • 10 Fascist Lament by Prudencio de Pereda • . 11 Thou Shall Not Bear False Witness by D. R. Taft 12 William Gropper's Mural and Show 14 Bill Green's Boomerang by Paul G. McManus 15 Moving, A Short Story by Millen BranJ • • 16 Granville Hicks Nails a Lie • . 16 Night of Freedom A Poem by Michael Wilson 17 Editorial Comment . • . 19 Reader's Forum . • . • . • . 22 llEVII!W AND COMMENT Ruth McKenney's "Industrial Valley" by Albert Maltz 23 Gedye's Report by Theodore Draper • • 24 Labor Relations by Bruce Minton • • • 25 Fascist Apologia by David Ramsey • .