VoL. X. No.1 CONTENTS JANUARY 2, 19:34 No Rights for Lynchers. • . • 6 The New Republic vs. the Farmers •••••• 22 Roosevelt Tries Silver. 6 Books . .. .. • . • . • 24 Christmas Sell·Out ••••.......••..•.•••• , 7 An Open Letter by Granville Hicks ; Fascism in America, ••..• by John Strachey 8 Reviews by Bill Dunne, Stanley Burn­ shaw, Scott Nearing, Jack Conroy. The Reichstag Trial •• by Leonard L Mins 12 Doves in the Bull Ring .. by John Dos Passos 13 ·John Reed Club Art Exhibition ......... ' by Louis Lozowick 27 Is Pacifism Counter-Revolutionary ••••••• by J, B. Matthews 14 The Theatre •.•••... by William Gardener 28 The Big Hold~Up •••••••••••••••••••.•• 15 The Screen ••••••••••••• by Nathan Adler 28 Who Owns Congress •• by Marguerite Young 16 Music .................. by Ashley Pettis 29 Tom Mooney Walks at Midnight ••.••.•• Cover •••••• , ••••••• by William Gropper by Michael Gold 19 Other Drawinp by Art Young, Adolph The Farmen Form a United Front •••••• Dehn, Louis Ferstadt, Phil Bard, Mardi by Josephine Herbst 20 Gasner, Jacob Burck, Simeon Braguin. ......1'11 VOL, X, No.2 CONTENTS 1934 The Second Five~ Year Plan ........... , • 8 Books •••.•.••.••.•••••••••••••••••.••• 25 Writing and War ........ Henri Barbusse 10 A Letter to the Author of a First Book, by Michael Gold; Of the World Poisons for People ••••••••• Arthur Kallet 12 Revolution, by Granville Hicks; The Union Buttons in Philly ••••• Daniel Allen 14 Will Durant of Criticism, by Philip Rahv; Upton Sinclair's EPIC Dream, "Zafra Libre I" ••.••••..•• Harry Gannes 15 by William P. Mangold. A New Deal in Trusts .••• David Ramsey 17 End and Beginning .• Maxwell Bodenheim 27 Music • , • , •••••••••••••••. Ashley Pettis 28 The House on 16th Street .............. The Theatre ••••••••• William Gardener 29 Marguerite Young 19 The Screen .............. Nathan Adler 29 Storm Warning .••••••••••.• James Daly 20 Art Calendar • • • • • • • • . • • • • • • . • • • • • • • • • . 30 Letters from America. , • , •. , , , , .• , •• , . • • 22 Cover •••• , .••...••..••• by Jacob Burck Other Drawings by Bernarda Bryson, Letters from a Princess .•••.•••••••••• , . 23 Hyman Warsager, Limbach, Georges Comrade Lunacharsky •• Moissaye J. OJgin 24 Schreiber, Julius Bloch, Adolf Dehn. VoL. X, No.3 CONTENTS JANUARY 1934 Budgeting for War..................... 8 Correspondence • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 24 The Hundred Greediest Cases .• Bill Smith 9 Books ...•........•.............•.••.•• 26 Der Schone Archibald, by Margaret The War Lords Go "Left" .•.••••••••••• Wright Mather; Unhistorical Novel, Glass 10 G. Frank by Gilbert Douglas ; The Steel Heel, Red Messengers ••..••••••••. Jim Waters 12 by James Steele; Fog in the Mountains, A Story That Got Lost •• Erskine Caldwell 13 by Obed Brooks; Notes on Pamphlets. The Milk Racket's Sick ••••• Carl Haessler U The Theatre ••.••.•••• William Gardener 29 Miner's Funeral. ••••••• , ••• Emery Balint 16 The Screen •••••••••••.•••. Irving Lerner 30 Letters from America. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 20 The Drawings are by Esther Kriger, J. Vogel, William Sanderson, Myra Mor· The Students Learn ••••••• Carl A. Bristel 21 row, William Gropper, Art Young, Entering the Blind Alley ••• David Ramsey 22 Adolf Dehn and Jacob Burck. VoL, No.4 CONTENTS 1934 Half J?ollars to Live on ........ ,........ 7 On the Move ••••••••••.••• M. Shulimson 22 The Immediate Task. • • . • • • • • • • • • • . • • . • 8 Athletes Can Win but They Don't •••••• A Handbook for Poisoners .• Arthur Kallet 10 Edward Newhouse 23 .Blood on the Lettuce. 0. 0., .Michael Quin 11 In the Money ••.....••.. Market Follower 25 Van der Lubbe's Head •••••• Alfred Hayes 12 Books ......•..•..•••••••••.••••••••••• 26 Lenin the Social Scientist .•••..••.••..••• The Lenin Heritage, by Eugene Gor­ don; Dixie Idyll, by James S. Allen; Moissaye J. Olgin 13 Dialectical Materialism in Action, by His Place in History ••... James Burnham 15 Milton Howard; Beauty Patch, by "Parties Unknown" in Georgia •• , ••••••• Michael Blankfort; Eugenics and Fas .. Erskine Caldwell 16 cism, by Donald R. Charles. Communes in America? ••• Robert Gessner 18 The Screen •••••.•••..••• ,. • Nathan Adler 29 "You, Sir, Being an Author-" •••.••.•• , Music ••.•••••••••••••••••• Ashley Pettis. 29 Edwin Seaver 19 Cover ...................... by Phil Bard Happy Birthday to You I. ............. 0. Other drawings by Georges Schreiber, Margaret Wright Mather 20 Jacob Burck, Julius Bloch, Louis Fer­ Correspondence •••••••• , •••••••••••• , • • 21 stadt, William Gropper, Hugo Gellert. VoL. X, No.5 CONTENTS J ANUAllY 30, War by Spring? •••• , .•••.•• ,.......... 8 Books •..••.••....••..•.••.•••••••••••• 25 Firing Four Million •• , • , .•• , • • . • • • • • . • • • 8 The Artful Dodger, by Granville by Virgil Red Cards for Yellow................... 9 Hicks; O'Casey as Mystic, Geddes; Journalist ln Russia, by Corliss The Threat to Railro.ad Labor Feathers and Apple Martha Andrews 10 Lamont; Horse Sauce, by David Ramsey; No Social Mansions in the Sky ....... David Ramsey 12 Credit, by Charles D. Fletcher; Song Pitfalls for Prophets, ••.••. Joshua Kunitz 13 of Bitterness, by Clifton Cuthbert. Toward an American Anthology Cold City Square ••.... Stanley Burnshaw 27 M. Shulimson 1S Theatre ••••••.••. William Gardener 28 Dynamite and Scabs ••. Mary Heaton Vorse 16 The Nightgown Riders of America The Screen ••.••..••••• , •• Nathan Adler 29 Edward Dahlberg 17 Fanfaronade ....•.••.•••.••. Audrey Linn 30 Voices from Germany. • . • • • • • • • • • • • . • . 19 Drawings . Correspondence • • • • • • • • • • • • • • . • • • • . • • • • 20 by William Gropper, Hoff, Art Young, Delancey Street Bus •.••.•.. Arthur Pense 22 Louis Lozowick, Bernarda ·Bryson VoL. X, No.6 CONTENTS FEBRUARY 6, '1934 N.R.A. Factory Slave Albert Dannenhirsch 6 Russia's Friends Meet ••....•. Myra Page 24 Stalin's Great Speech................... S Books •.•••••••••...••••• , •••••••••••• 25 The Fanners Help Themselves. • . • • • • 9 A Nest of Reviewers, by Granville "It ·Breaks Where It's Thin" Hicks; Go to Hell with Art Young, Ilya Ehrenbourg 10 by Michael Gold; Whose American Fine and Dandy •••••.•• Otis C. Ferguson 12 Wealth? by Charles D. Fletcher; The End of O'Neill, by Virgil Geddes. Mr. Blanshard Yawns ••... Sender Garlin 14 In the Money .•..•.••••. Market Follower 28 Lewis Sits on the Lid .•••.••• Jack Stachel 1S Music .................... Ashley Pettis 29 The Hotel Workers Revolt Jeremiah Kelly 16 The Screen ••.••.•••.•••.. Nathan Adler 30 Rose Water for a Sewer .••• Daniel Allen 19 Cover ..•....••..••. by William Gropper Other drawings by Del, Jacob Burck, America, America I .•.. Alfred Kreymborg 20 Reginald Marsh, Herb Kruckman, Letters from America. • . • • .. .. • • .. .. 22 Adolf Dehn, Jose Clemen·te Orozco, Correspondence ••••••••• , • , • • . • . • . 23 Kabat and Fox. VoL. X, No.7 CONTENTS FEBRUARY 13, 1934 Three Who Died •••.••.•...• Edwin Rolfe . 6 Three~Day Soldiers .•..••.•• Eishi Tanaka 23 Green's Cash Register Tinkles Books ••••••.••••.•••••••••••••.••••••. 26 Nathaniel Honig .• 8 Liberalism and Tragedy, by Granville 77 Cents a Week for Food •• John Stracbey •• 9 Hicks; No Gold Diggers, by Ella Win· ter; What America Needs, by Robert The Unemployed Report. ,John Dos Passos 11 Forsythe; The Man on To\>, by Isidor Cash, or Jobs ! ..•...... Robert Whitcomb 12 Schneider; Pianist and Patr1ot, by Ash~ The N.R.A. in the Tropics ley Pettis. · Josephine Garwood and K. G. D. Little 14 Valentines ••..•. Margaret Wright Mather 29 P. S. He Got the Job ••.•••••••••....•• 15 The Theatre ...•...•.• William Gardener 29 Red Front, Comrade Renn ..•. A. B. Magil 16 Cover •.........•.•..••. by Hugo Gellert Suicide in the Jungle .•••• Horace Gregory 18 Other drawings by F. Mayo, Correll, Voice from Germany .•..•. Hans Schnitter 20 Jacob Burck, Louis Ferstadt, Georges Schreiber, Stuyvesant Van Veen, Wil· Correspondence • • • . • • • • • • • • . • • • • • • • • • . 21 liam Sanderson, Reginald Marsh, Tenderly ••.••.•.•... Maxwell Bodenheim 21 Adolf Dehn. VoL. X, No. 8 CONTENTS FEBRUARY 20, 1934 I van to the Dnieper .......••. Myra Page 6 Leon Dennen; A New Pioneering Disguised as Marxists................... 7 Realism, by Oakley Johnson ; The Lying About Labor. • . .. .. • .. .. .. .. .. 8 Methods of Joyce, by Wallace Phelps; Upstate Decay, by Edwin Rolfe; A Preachers, Be Still ! ...••• Isidor Schneider 11 Wise Virgin, by Howard N. Doughty, The Little King .•••••.•• Robert Forsythe 11 Jr.; Notes on Pamphlets. How Russia Treats Crime-Joshua Kunitz 13 In the Money ••..•••..•• Market Follower 28 Letters from America. • • . • • • • • • • • • • 1 S Revolution •••••.••••••. Langston Hughes 28 Blue Heaven .•.•.....•..• John L. Spivak 18 New Scenery for New Audiences A Lynching? We're Too Busy •.•••.•.••. 19 Mordecai .Gorelik 29 Notes on Revolutionary Poetry The Screen •••••••••••••••• Nathan Adler 30 Stanley Burnshaw 20 Cover ••••••••••••••••••••••••••. by I.ou Correspondence ••.•.••....••••••••••••• 22 Other drawings by William Gropper, Books ...••..•.•••••...••.....•...•.... 24 Kabat, Reginald Marsh, Jacob Burck, Portrait of a Gangster, by Edward Georges Schreiber, Pearl Binder, Chon Dahlberg; Yugoslavia Awakes, by Day, Theodore Scheel. VoL. X, No.9 CONTENTS FEBRUARY 27, 1934 Editorials Correspondence ••..••.•..••••.••••••••• 24 Self Portrait of a Socialist Leader. • • • 6 Books ••••••.•.....•....•..•••••.••.... 25 The Lesson of Madison Square Garden 8 Symbol of Revolution, by Granville Listen to the Speaker ......... Boris Israel 10 Hicks; Russians at Home, by Alice