VoL. XIV, No. 1 CONTENTS JANUARY 1, 1935 Editorial Comment • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • .. ..• 3 Correspondence • . • • . • • . • • . • • • • • • . • . • • 34 Keeping the Banks Solvent.............. 6 Review and Comment Americanism .•.••••. Henry George Weiss 6 Revolutionary Literature of 1934 The Fight For Social Insurance. • • • . • • • • 8 Granville Hicks 36 One Year of the Weekly New Masses A Prospect for Edna Millay A Statement to Our Readers and an · Stanley Burnshaw 39 Appeal • • ••••• ••••••. .• • • • . • • ••• 9 New Documents on the Bolshevik Father Coughlin's Army .••.. A. B. Magi! 11 Revolution ...•..••.•.•• Sam Darcy 40 Gagging The Guild •••• William Mangold 15 The Unheard Voice Life of the Mind, 1935 Isidor Schneider 41 Genevieve Taggard 16 Music .................... Ashley Pettis Will the Farmer Go Red? The Theatre 5. The Dark Cloud ...... John Latham 17 The Innocent Propaganda of Maxwell Take This Hope .......•... Richard Giles 19 Anderson ••....• Michael Blankfort 44 In the Nazis' Torture House Other Current Shows .•.••••.••••..•• 45 Karl Billinger 20 Disintegration of a Director ••. Peter Ellis 45 The Man at the Factory Gate Between Ourselves • • • • • • • • . • • • . • • • • . • • . 46 Charles Henry Newman 27 Drawings by H. R. 7598-A Debate on Social Insurance William Sanderson, Mackey, Crockett Mary Van Kleeck ,ys. I. M. Rubinow 28 Johnson, Phil Wolfe, Phil Bard. VoL. XIV, No. 2 CONTENTS JANUARY 8, 1935 Editorial Comment . • . • . • • . 3 Arming the Masses .••.••••. Ben Field 25 Betrayal by the N.A.A.C.P. •. • . • 6 American Decadence Mapped Terror in "Liberal" Wisconsin........... 8 .Samuel Levenson 25 The Truth About the Crawford Case Fire on the Andes •••... Frank Gordon 26 Martha Gruening 9 Brief Review ••••••••••••••• , • • • . • • 27 Moscow Street. ....... Charles B. Strauss 15 Book Notes •••••••••••••••.••.•••••• 27 The Auto Workers Face 1935 Art A. B. Magi! 16 Design for a Parasite Class Man on a Road ..••..••.... Albert Maltz 19 Stephen Alexander 28 Bread Line ....•.•......•... Dee Vagrlen 21 Current Theatre .•••.•.••.••...•... S. B. 29 Correspondence . • . • • • • • • • . • • • . • • . • 22 Between Ourselves .•.••..••..•..•.•••... 30 Review and Comment Drawings by Material for a Note on Shakespeare William Sanderson, Phil Bard, Russell Stanley Burnshaw 23 T. Limbach. VoL. XIV, No. 3 CONTENTS JANUARY 15, 1935 Editorial Comment . • • . • • . • • . • . • • 3 What .Spies Are Made Of Roosevelt Tells Congress................ 8 Isidor Schneider 25 The Fight for Bread. • . • • . • • • • . • • • • . • • • 8 An Incomplete Indictment What Is Happening in the Saar Corliss Lamont 26 Ilya Ehrenbourg 9 Sidetracking American Thought Correspondence ........................ 15 Maxwell Bodenheim 27 Back of the Yards .•..•....•. Jane Benton 16 Brief Review • • • • • . • • • • • • • . • • • • • • • . 27 2,000 Workers Dying on a Job Music: Bernard Allen 18 A Music School for Workers White Guards of the World Ashley Pettis 28 Harold Ward 19 Not a Dry Eye .•.••••••. Robert Forsythe 29 A Man· and a Woman ••..•. Ernst Toller 20 Sweet LeRoy •••••••••..••.••. Peter Ellis 29 Review and Comment ••..•.••.••••••••• 23 Ode to Liberty ••••.•.. Michael Blankfort 30 A New Direction for Criticism Between Ourselves ••••••.•..•••••••••••• 30 •· Stanley Burnshaw 23 Drawings by Lenin on Renegade Socialism Russell T. Limbach, Crockett Johnson, L M. Lerner 24 John Arrow. VOL, XIV, No. 4 CONTENTS JANUARY 22, 1935 Editorial Comment , .. , ..... ., •. • • • • 3 Inside Is the Wrong Side, Fallada The Saar Plebiscite. .. .. .. ..• 6 John Norman 22 Students in Revolt..................... 7 Pretty Pictures •••• Russell T. Limbach 24 A Year of the Guild.................. 7 Short Stories in America. , Alfred Hayes 24 Our Congress and Theirs ... Michael Gold 8 Book Notes ••.••..•..•••...••.••..•• 24 The Sacramento Trials.,, .Jack Warnick 11 Brief Review • . • • . • • • . • • • . • • • • . • 25 2,000 Dying on a Job .•.••. Bernard Allen 13 Art: Murals by Burck and Laning Hurrah for Mr. Goldstein ..... Sue Varna 14 Stephen Alexander 26 Songs About Lenin .•.• , .. , ••.• , ••. , , • • • 15 The Theatre •••.••.••. Michael Blankfort 28 Will the Farmer Go Red? The Dance .•..•••.•• , •• Horace Gregory 28 6: The Way Out ........ John Latham 16 Chapayev Is Here ....... Robert Forsythe 29 Correspondence ••......... , ••.••.•..• , . 18 Between Ourselves • . • • . • . • . • • . • • . • • • 30 Review and Comment. • . • • . • • . • . .. 20 Drawings by A Call for an American Writers' William Sanderson, Phil Bard, Hoff, Congress ...................... , • 20 paintings by Jacob Burck and Edward To Explain-or to Change? Laning, photographs by Margaret John Strachey 21 Bourke-White. VoL. XIV, No. 5 CONTENTS JANUARY 29, 1935 Editorial Comment..................... 3 Vridar Hunter Betrayed .. Jack Conroy 25 Security-For Wall Street.............. 6 Civilization Rampant The Vets March Again................. 6 Bernhard J. Stern 25 The Red Plot Thickens. • . • . 8 Book Notes •....•.•.•.••.•••...•.•.. 26 Wall Street's Fascist Conspiracy Theatre 1. Testimony that the Dickstein Com- Waiting for Lefty ... Stanley Burnshaw 27 mittee Suppressed ... John L. Spivak 9 Artef Presents "Dostigayev" Aspects of Soviet Art ..... Louis Lozowick 16 Joshua Kunitz 28 Agnes Smedley in Danger. 20 The British Are Coming, Boom! Correspondence . • . 21 Robert Forsythe 29 Review and Comment. .• . 22 Between Ourselves .•...••.....••••...... 30 What is a Proletarian Writer? Drawings by William Rollins, Jr. 22 Russell T. Limbach; Paintings by Ser­ Without Benefit of the A. F. of L. geyevich Petrov-Vodkin and Eugene Robert Dunn 23 Aleksandrovich Katzman. VoL. XIV, No. 6 CONTENTS FEBRUARY 5, 1935 Editorial Comment . .. • . .. .. 3 Review and Comment ................... 23 Writers in Union Square................ 7 A Test for Critics ..•. Granville Hicks 23 The Students Fight War ......... ·....... 7 Descent from Marx to Scott via Veblen Tanaka Still Talks..................... 8 Addison T. Cutler 24 Wall Street's Fascist Conspiracy Still Waters-Still Hollow Bernard Smith 26 2. Morgan Pulls the Strings Brief Review . • . • . 27 John L. Spivak ....... 10 Music .•.......••......•.. Ashley Pettis 28 Prospect for an Auto Strike .•. A. B. Magi I 15 The Auvilles' Songs ...•... L. E. Swift 28 The Greatest Story ..••.•.•• Nathan Asch 17 England "Revives" .....•.. Harold Ward 19 The Theatre: Mr. Knopf Makes a Sale Intermission .......... Robert Forsythe 29 George Simpson 20 The Same Old Warner •.••.... Peter Ellis 30 Correspondence ..••.•.•.....••••....... 21 Between Ourselves • . • • . • • • 30 VoL. XIV, No. 7 CONTENTS FEBRUARY 12, 1935 Editorial Comment. 3 Review and Comment ••.••...••.••..•.. 23 The Picket Line Grows. • . 6 Thomas Boyd, Communist California Justice . 7 Granville Hicks 23 A Prison in Russia .......... Lester Cohen 9 Portraits of Two Liberals "Anarchy" in Arkansas .... Harold Preece 1+ Edwin Berry Burgum 24 Two Poems ..........•.... Martha Millet 15 Reluctant Eyes on China Valentine Greetings Isidor Schneider 26 Drawn by Bernarda Bryson, Adolph A Sitwell Unconfirmed Dehn, Mackey, Redfield, Anton Ref­ Muriel Rukeyser 26 regier, William Sanderson, Ben Shahn, Brief Review . • . • . • . • • . • . 27 Art ¥ oung; verse by Dan Shays 16 The Theatre: God's in His Heaven Minority Peoples in Two Worlds Michael Blankfort 28 Langston Hughes 18 Land of Sweet Lorgnettes One Writer's Position ••.. Horace Gregory 20 Robert Forsythe 29 Do You Hear? .•..••..•.. Mildred Gaims 2t Between Ourselves •..................•• 30 Correspondence • . 22 Drawings by: Phil Bard, R. T. Limbach VoL. XIV, No. 8 CONTENTS FEBRUARY 19, 1935 Editorial Comment • • • • . • • . • . • • • • • • • • 3 Brief Review • . • • . • • . • • . • • . • • • • • • 24 Seventh Soviet Congress • • • . • . • • • . 6 Art ..•.......••.•.••. Stephen Alexander 26 Columbus Circle .•••••.•.. Will Lawrence 8 The Theatre Bruce Minton 9 International Theatre Week Trial by Vigilantes .••••••. Mark Marvin 27 Btown Shirts in Zion ...•. Robert Gessner 11 Helen Howe ...•••.•••.. Orrick Johns 27 Women and Communism •.. Rebecca Pitts 14 The Gilded Lily ..••....•••.. Peter Ellis 27 Biscuits and Blackjacks .• Edward Newhouse 18 Lady Macbeth of Mzensk ... Ashley Pettis 28 Correspondence ••••••••....••....•~. • . • • 20 Five Star Final. •..•••••. Robert Forsythe 29 Review and Comment ..•.•••...••.....• 21 Between Ourselves . • • • . • • . • • . • 30 Another Writer's Position Drawings by Russell T. Limbach, Richard Edwin Seaver 21 Correll, Ned Hilton, William Sander­ Day Dreams in Life ••... Leon Dennen 22 son, Mackey; reproduction of a paint­ Shadow of Philanthropy .. Loren Miller 23 ing by Lydia Gibson. VoL. XVI, No. 9 CONTENTS FEBRUARY 26, 1935 Editorial Comment • • . • • . • . • . 3 Review and Comment. • . • • . • • . 22 The Dickstein Report................... 6 The Fetish of Being Outside Official Soviet-Baiting . • . • . • • . • • • . 7 Mericle! LeSueur 22 What the Gold Clause Means New Form and New Content John Irving 9 Isidor Schneider 23 Seventy-five Thousand Captive Miners Dead Flowers in Lovely Vases Amy Schechter 10 Obed Brooks 24 Notes from the Road ....••• John Strachey 14 A Holy Wafer for the Starving Opium-For the People ..•. Harold Ward 15 Sylvia Glass 25 Letters from America: ...••••.•..••.•.. 16 The Theatre .••••••••• Michael Blankfort 26 How They Gyp the Teachers, by Boyd The Dance ••.••••.••.. Stanley Burnshaw 27 Wolff; Stretch-out in the Army, by Art ••.••.••••.••..••• Stephen Alexander 28 J. Arnold-Williams, Organizing Wall Stuff of Life ...•.......•.