===================================== Vol. X, No.1 CONTENTS January 2, 1934 ===================================== 06 No Rights for Lynchers 06 Roosevelt Tries Silver 07 Christmas Sell-Out 08 Fascism in America by John Strachey 12 The Reichstag Trial by Leonard L Mins 13 Doves in the Bull Ring by John Dos Passos 14 Is Pacifism Counter-Revolutionary by J. B. Matthews 15 The Big Hold-Up 16 Who Owns Congress by Marguerite Young 19 Tom Mooney Walks at Midnight by Michael Gold 20 The Farmers Form a United Front by Josephine Herbst 22 The New Republic vs. the Farmers 24 Books: An Open Letter by Granville Hicks; Reviews by Bill Dunne, Stanley Burnshaw, Scott Nearing, Jack Conroy. 27 John Reed Club Art Exhibition by Louis Lozowick 28 The Theatre by William Gardener 28 The Screen by Nathan Adler 29 Music by Ashley Pettis Cover by William Gropper Other Drawings by Art Young, Adolph Dehn, Louis Ferstadt, Phil Bard, Mordi Gasner, Jacob Burck, Simeon Braguin. ===================================== Vol. X, No.2 CONTENTS January 9, 1934 ===================================== 08 The Second Five-Year Plan 10 Writing and War by Henri Barbusse 12 Poisons for People by Arthur Kallet 14 Union Buttons in Philly by Daniel Allen 15 "Zafra Libre!" by Harry Gannes 17 A New Deal in Trusts by David Ramsey 19 The House on 16th Street by Marguerite Young 20 Storm Warning by James Daly 20 22 Letters from America 23 Letters from a Princess 24 Comrade Lunacharsky by Moissaye J. Olgin 25 Books: A Letter to the Author of a First Book, by Michael Gold; Of the World Revolution, by Granville Hicks; The Will Durant of Criticism, by Philip Rahv; Upton Sinclair's EPIC Dream, by William P. Mangold. End and Beginning by Maxwell Bodenheim 28 Music by Ashley Pettis 29 The Theatre by William Gardener 29 The Screen by Nathan Adler 30 Art Calendar Cover by Jacob Burck Other Drawings by: Bernarda Bryson, Hyman Warsager, Limbach, Georges Schreiber, Julius Bloch, Adolf Dehn. ====================================== Vol. X, No.3 CONTENTS January 16, 1934 ====================================== 08 Budgeting for War 09 The Hundred Greediest Cases by Bill Smith 10 The War Lords Go "Left" by G. Frank Glass 12 Red Messengers by Jim Waters 13 A Story That Got Lost by Erskine Caldwell 13 The Milk Racket's Sick by Carl Haessler 16 Miner's Funeral by Emery Balint 20 Letters from America 21 The Students Learn by Carl A. Bristel 21 Entering the Blind Alley by David Ramsey 24 Correspondence 26 Books: Der Schone Archibald, by Margaret Wright Mather; Unhistorical Novel, by Gilbert Douglas; The Steel Heel, by James Steele; Fog in the Mountains, by Obed Brooks; Notes on Pamphlets. 29 The Theatre by William Gardener 30 The Screen by Irving Lerner The Drawings are by: Esther Kriger, J. Vogel, William Sanderson, Myra Morrow, William Gropper, Art Young, Adolf Dehn and Jacob Burc ====================================== Vol. X, No.4 CONTENTS January 23, 1934 ====================================== 07 Half Dollars to Live on 08 The Immediate Task 10 A Handbook for Poisoners by Arthur Kallet 11 Blood on the Lettuce by Michael Quin 12 Van der Lubbe's Head by Alfred Hayes 13 Lenin the Social Scientist by Moissaye J. Olgin 15 His Place in History by James Burnham 16 "Parties Unknown" in Georgia by Erskine Caldwell 18 Communes in America? by Robert Gessner 19 "You, Sir, Being an Author-" by Edwin Seaver 20 Happy Birthday to You! by Margaret Wright Mather 21 Correspondence 22 On the Move by M. Shulimson 23 Athletes Can Win but They Don't by Edward Newhouse 25 In the Money by Market Follower 26 Books: The Lenin Heritage, by Eugene Gordon; Dixie Idyll, by James S. Allen; Dialectical Materialism in Action, by Milton Howard; Beauty Patch, by Michael Blankfort; Eugenics and Fascism, by Donald R. Charles. 29 The Screen by Nathan Adler 29 Music by Ashley Pettis Cover by Phil Bard; Other drawings by: Georges Schreiber, Jacob Burck, Julius Bloch, Louis Ferstadt, William Gropper, Hugo Gellert. ====================================== Vol. X, No.5 CONTENTS January 30, 1934 ====================================== 08 War by Spring? 08 Firing Four Million 09 Red Cards for Yellow 10 The Threat to Railroad Labor by Martha Andrews 12 Mansions in the Sky by David Ramsey 13 Pitfalls for Prophets by Joshua Kunitz 13 Toward an American Anthology by M. Shulimson 16 Dynamite and Scabs by Mary Heaton Vorse 17 Nightgown Riders of America by Edward Dahlberg 19 Voices from Germany 20 Correspondence 22 Delancey Street Bus by Arthur Pense 25 Books: The - Artful Dodger, by Granville Hicks; O'Casey as Mystic, by Virgil Geddes; Journalist in Russia, by Corliss Lamont; Horse Feathers and Apple Sauce, by David Ramsey; No Social Credit, by Charles D. Fletcher; Song of Bitterness, by Clifton Cuthbert. 27 Cold City Square by Stanley Burnshaw 27 28 The Theatre by William Gardener 29 The Screen by Nathan Adler 30 Fanfaronade by Audrey Linn Drawings by: William Gropper, Hoff, Art Young, Louis Lozowick, Bemarda Bryson ====================================== Vol. X, No.6 CONTENTS February 6, 1934 ====================================== 06 N.R.A. Factory Slave Albert Dannenhirsch 08 Stalin's Great Speech 09 The Fanners Help Themselves 10 "It Breaks Where It's Thin" by Ilya Ehrenbourg 12 Fine and Dandy by Otis C. Ferguson 14 Mr. Blanshard Yawns by Sender Garlin 15 Lewis Sits on the Lid by Jack Stachel 16 The Hotel Workers Revolt by Jeremiah Kelly 19 Rose Water for a Sewer by Daniel Allen 20 America, America! by Alfred Kreymborg 22 Letters from America 23 Correspondence 24 Russia's Friends Meet 25 Books A Nest of Reviewers, by Granville Hicks; Go to Hell with Art Young, by Michael Gold; Whose American Wealth? by Charles D. Fletcher; The End of O'Neill, by Virgil Geddes. 28 In the Money by Market Follower 29 Music by Ashley Pettis 30 The Screen by Nathan Adler Cover by William Gropper, Other drawings by: Del, Jacob Burck, Reginald Marsh, Herb Kruckman, Adolf Dehn, Jose Clemente Orozco, Kabat and Fox. ======================================= Vol. X, No.7 CONTENTS February 13, 1934 ======================================= 06 Three Who Died by Edwin Rolfe 08 Green's Cash Register Tinkles by Nathaniel Honig 09 77 Cents a Week for Food by John Strachey 11 The Unemployed Report by John Dos Passos 12 Cash, or Jobs! by Robert Whitcomb 14 The N.R.A. in the Tropics by Josephine Garwood and K. G. D. Little 15 P. S. He Got the Job 16 Red Front, Comrade Renn by A. B. Magil 18 Suicide in the Jungle by Horace Gregory 20 Voice from Germany by Hans Schnitter 21 Correspondence 21 Tenderly by Maxwell Bodenheim 23 Three-Day Soldiers by Eishi Tanaka 26 Books: Liberalism and Tragedy, by Granville Hicks; No Gold Diggers, by Ella Winter; What America Needs, by Robert Forsythe; The Man on Top, by Isidor Schneider; Pianist and Patriot, by Ashley Pettis 29 Valentines by Margaret Wright Mather 29 29 The Theatre by William Gardener 29 Cover by Hugo Gellert, Other drawings by: F. Mayo, Correll, Jacob Burck, Louis Ferstadt, Georges Schreiber, Stuyvesant Van Veen, William Sanderson, Reginald Marsh, Adolf Dehn. ======================================= Vol. X, No.8 CONTENTS February 20, 1934 ======================================= 06 Ivan to the Dnieper by Myra Page 07 Disguised as Marxists 08 Lying About Labor 11 Preachers, Be Still! by Isidor Schneider 11 The Little King by Robert Forsythe 13 How Russia Treats Crime-Joshua Kunitz 15 Letters from America 18 Blue Heaven by John L. Spivak 19 A Lynching? We're Too Busy 20 Notes on Revolutionary Poetry by Stanley Burnshaw 22 Correspondence 24 Books: Portrait of a Gangster, by Edward Dahlberg; Yugoslavia Awakes, by Leon Dennen; A New Pioneering Realism, by Oakley Johnson; The Methods of Joyce, by Wallace Phelps; Upstate Decay, by Edwin Rolfe; A Wise Virgin, by Howard N. Doughty, Jr.; Notes on Pamphlets. 28 In the Money by Market Follower 28 Revolution by Langston Hughes 29 New Scenery for New Audiences by Mordecai Gorelik 30 The Screen by Nathan Adler Cover by Lou, Other drawings by: William Gropper, Kabat, Reginald Marsh, Jacob Burck, Georges Schreiber, Pearl Binder, Chon Day, Theodore Scheel. ======================================= Vol. X, No.9 CONTENTS February 27, 1934 ======================================= Editorials 06 Self Portrait of a Socialist Leader 08 The Lesson of Madison Square Garden 10 Listen to the Speaker by Boris Israel 11 We're Back in Sing Sing by Stanley Burnshaw 12 The Little Poison Flower by Marguerite Young 15 The Chief Task Now by R. Palme Dutt 16 Nazi Plague Spots of Europe by Aibert Allen 20 "Like Them Bahlsheviks" by John L. Spivak 21 War on the Railway Unions by James Steele 23 The Hands of Old Man Martin by Miguel Otero Silvo 24 Correspondence 25 Books: Symbol of Revolution, by Granville Hicks; Russians at Home, by Alice Withrow Field; Renegade's Progress, by Mark Marvin; A Classic in Pictures, by Frank; Notes on Pamphlets. 29 Still-Birth as Epitaph by Stearns Morse 29 29 Art Notes by M. K. B. 29 30 The Screen by David Platt Cover by Jacob Burck, Other drawings by: William Gropper, Louis Arena, Esther Kriger, Carl Fox, Adolf Dehn, Phil Bard and Kabat. ====================================== Vol. X, No. 10 CONTENTS March 6, 1934 Park Bench ..•••.•• , •••. Langston Hughes 6 To John Dos Passos-An Editorial...... 8 . Dear Beatrice Fairfax ... Kenneth Fearing 9 Hitler's Rivals Get the Idea .. John Strachey 10 One Year of the New Deal •.... Bill Dunne 11 Open Letter •..••...••.•••. Willard Maas 14 War on the Waterfront .•. Eugene Gordo11 15 An American Tradition ..•. Nathan Adler 16 Short-Sighted Millionaires Margaret Wright Mather 18 A Veteran Looks at His Cards John L. Spivak 19 Princeton Revisited ••• , Michael Blankfort 20 Correspondence • , ••••••.• , .••. , • , , •.. , • 21 Titans of Literature ••. Edward Newhouse 22 Books .. , ..................•...•. ~ ...•. 23 Mr. Jekyll and Comrade Hyde, by Philip Rahv; What Liberals Can't Learn ,by Liston N. Oak; Thinkers of the Twilight, by Murray Godwin; Revolution in China, by G. F. Willison; Comfort for Mr. Babbitt, by James Steele. In the Money ..... , .... Market Follower 27 St. Louis Artists Win .....•. Orrick Johns 28 Voices from Germany. • . . • . . • . . • . • . . • . . 29 Music ..................... Ashley Pettis 30 Drawings by Mogen, Carl Fox, Jacob Burck, Dan Rico, Jose Clemente Orozco Mabel Dwight. ======================================= Vol. X, No. 11 CONTENTS March 13, 1934 -. Editorials F. D. R. Leads; The Banks Follow.... 8 A Fascist on Parade................. 9 Farthest North in Race Hatred........ 10 Soviet Republic No. 2 ........... ; .... 11 Dimitroff ...••.••..••..•. George Severny 11 Something to Believe in ..••. Rebecca Pitts 14 Wildcat Williams ..•••...• John L. Spivak 17 Talking Treachery "Away .. Joshua Kunitz 19 I'll Say! .................... H. H. Lewis 20 The Golden Key to Snobbery Carl Haessler 21 Cubes ......•..••..••... Langston Hughes 22 "Onward Christian Soldiers" Albert Maltz 23 Correspondence ......••.•..•.•......•.. 24 Breadline .•..•..•....••..•. Elsa Gidlow 24 Books ..•.•..•...•.••.•.•••......•..... 25 A Study in Hangovers, by Granville Hicks ; Russian Models, by Lucian Zacharoff; These British, by Robert Forsythe; One Man's World, by Jack Conroy; Symbol of Frustration, by Walter Snow Music and the Crisis •••••• Ashley Pettis 28 The Theatre ...••...••.••.•••••.••. J. K. 30 Drawings by Del, William Sanderson, Reginald Marsh, John Groth, Carl Fox, L. Arena!, Esther Kriger, Boris Gorelick ============================================== Vol. X, No. 12 CONTENTS March 20, 1934 Editorials A United Front-With Whom?...... 6 The C.W.A. Inquisition............. 9 A Letter from America ••• -.John L Spivak 9 Are Newspapermen Workers? Philip J. Corbin 12 British Labor Declines to Starve John Strachey 14 Broad-Minded Medici •. Stephen Alexander 15 My Approach to Communism Kenneth Burke 16 Correspondence • • . • • • • • . . • . . • . • • . • • • • • • 21 Books ••.••..••.•••••.•...•.••• ••.....•. 23 A Personal Record, by Arthur Heller; A Victorian Atheist, by Philip Sterling; Last Testament, by Gilbert Douglas; Stage Irish, by Morton Moriarty. Heresy Hunters at Work Theodore Draper 26 Singing Workers ..•.••.••.• Ashley Pettis 27 In the Money ••.•••..•• Market Follower 28 Lord's Prayer ••••••••...•• Michael Flynn 28 A Playwright Sees a Play ••• Claire Sifton 29 Blizzard, 1934 .•••••.•••••• Gardner Rea 30 Between Ourselves • • • • • • . . • • • • • • • • • • • • • 30 Cover Design ••.••••••• William Gropper Other drawings by Louis Bunin, Abbott, Theodore Scheel, Anton Refregier, Adolf Dehn, George, Herb Kruckman, Mayo, and Phil Bard. ============================================== Vol. X, No. 13 CONTENTS March 27, 1934 Editorial: "Unintelligent Fanaticism"........... 6 N.R.A.: The Crooked Referee Maurice Sugar 9 Who Leads the Veterans? .... H. E. Briggs 13 The Intelligentsia Under Fire Joshua Kunitz 16 The Crossing ...•..•..••. Joseph Freeman 18 The French Press and the Riots Norbert Guterman 19 Hex Woman .•••••••.••.... Joseph North 21 Correspondence • • • • • • • • • • • • . . • • • • • • • • • 24 Books ..•.•..••.•••..••...•.••..•....•• 25 The Aesthetics of Yesterday, by Louis Lozowick; Without an Answer, by Gilbert Douglas ; Our Troubled Liberals, by F. D. Cosloe; High and Dry, by Samuel Levenson; Penny Dreadful, by Myra Page; History for the Pious, by Donald Morrow. In a Movie ......•.••.••.•• Albert Lewis 28 The Stage No "Critic" Knows Michael Gold 29 Class Conscious Hollywood Edouard de Courva 30 Between Ourselves . . . • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 30 Drawings by: E. Kirk, Boris Gorelick, N, Cikovsky, Corell, Jack Kabat, John Groth, L. Arena!, Gardner Rea, Carl Fox. ================================ Vol. XI, No. 1 CONTENTS April 3, 1934 Editorial Comment..................... 3 The Safest Risk in the World Market Follower 8 Taxi Strike .•.•.•....•.•... Joseph North 9 Detroit Cries "Sell Out I" .. Jeremiah Kelly 11 A Letter from England ••.. John Strachey 13 Correspondence . . • • . • . • . . • . . . . . . • • . . . . • 14 A Night in the Million Dollar Slums Michael Gold 15 In New Kentucky ••••••.. Samuel Ornitz 17 Book Supplement: ..•. , •.••..••••..••••• 29 Revolution and the Novel Granville Hicks 29 Joyce and Irish Literature S. D. Mirsky 31 The Quarter's Books in Review. • . . • • 34 Motorman •••••••••• George Salvatore 34 Notes on a Review •••••• Earl Browder 35 The Many-Sided Epic of the Soviets Joshua Kunitz 36 To a Revolutionary Girl Maxwell Bodenheim 38 Kingdom of the Blind .. Robert Simmons 39 Rebels and Robbers •• Louis M. Hacker 40 A Five-Inch Shelf of Booklets Oakley Johnson 41 Poet Among Imagists Genevieve Taggard 43 Farmers and Fakers ........ Ben Field 44 Rugged Portraiture ....... Kenneth Burke 46 Between Ourselves • • . . . • • • . . . . . . • • • . • . • 46 Drawings By Johnson, Joseph Gower, Del, Pearl Binder, Phil Bard, William Siegel, Hugo Gellert, Anton Refregier, L. Arena!, Jacob Burck, William Gropper ==================================================== Vol. XI, No. 2 CONTENTS April 10, 1934 Editorial Comment. . • .. . . • . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 The Week's Papers.................... 6 Te,rror in the Imperial Valley ... Editorial 6 New Bullets for Old ........... Editorial 8 Silver Shirts Among the Gold John L. Spivak 10 Workers' Theatre ...•.......... Carl Fox 11 Housing and Jobs: A Four-Year Plan Leonard Sparks and Paul Salter 12 Ireland's Crisis Sharpens ... Brian O'Neill 16 Music: Verboten ....... Herbert F. Peyser 18 A Spring Song.: ...... Stanley Burnshaw 19 Two Letters from America. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Two Poems My South ................. Don West 21 American Heritage ... Kenneth Patchen 21 Corespondence . . . . ... . . . . • . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Revolution and the Novel: II: Complex and Coliective Novels Granville Hicks 23 Books ...........•..•....•....••....... 25 Weeds of Wall Street, by Anna Rochester; Lauren Gilfillan's Education, by Mary Heaton Vorse; Soldiers' Pay, by Walter Wilson; Kerensky's High Steeple, by J. Dunsmore Clarkson A Bourgeois Hamlet of Our Time Michael Gold 28 Cupid's Letter Box ........... Bill Smith 30 Between Ourselves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Drawings by L, Bunin, George, Pearl Binder, Gardner Rea, Jack Kabat, Philip Reisman ====================================== Vol. XI, No. 3 CONTENTS April 17, 1934 Editorial Comment. . • . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 The Week's Papers............. . . . . . . . 5 The Convention: 1-Personnel of Revolution Joseph North 6 Prelude to Terror: The Committee for the Nation S. J. Lenihan 9 Empire of the Sun ..•... Joseph Freeman 11 Self-Criticism in Soviet Cartoons... . . . . • 16 Correspondence • • • • . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Fantasy in Blue Eyes and Blond Hair Edward Dahlberg 19 Cheerful Liars ••..... Stephen J. Addison 21 The British Capitalists' Awakening John Strachey 23 Revolution and the Novel: 3-Drama and Biography as Models Granville Hicks 24 Snowfall in March Ended Robert Gessner 25 Books ................................. 26 The Feeling of a Strike, by Mary Heaton Vorse; A One-Sided Picture, by Victor Burtt; The Monstrous Provocation, by Addison T. Cutler; Who Can Free Ireland? by Martin Moriarty "Inner Conflict" in Proletarian Art: A Reply to Michael Gold John Howard Lawson 29 Between Ourselves • • . • • . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Drawings by Esther Kriger, Boris Gorelik, Del, Johnson, and Six Soviet Artists. ======================================= Vol. XI, No. 4 CONTENTS April 24, 1934 Editorial Comment .•.••.••..••••• , • • . • • 3 The Week's Papers..................... S ', Jewry at. the Crossroads................ 6 The Communist Party Convention: 2-"We Do Not Have Unlimited Time" Joseph North 8 The Lost Battalion ..•..• John L. Spivak 10 Education Under the Crisis: 1-The.Public Schools •. Oakley Johnson 12 The War Planes Stop ....• Harry Gannes 14 Now They Are Madmen Ilya Ehrenbourg 1S Different Spring ••••••••.••• Orrick Johns 18 Saints and Toreadors .••• Horace Gregory 19 Correspondence . . . . • • • • . • . • . • • • • • • • . • . . 21 Revolution and the Novel: 4--Characters and Classes Granville Hicks 23 Books .•..•...•.•.•••.•••••.•••••••.••• 2S That New England Human Nature, by John Irving; Notes of a Novelist, by Granville Hicks; It Pays to be Blind by Frederick L. Schuman; The Art of Last Things, by Alan Calmer· A "Sympathetic" Fiction, by M~nuel Gomez; Brief Reviews; Notes on Pamphlets. The Gilbert-Sullivan Cult .. Michael Gold 28 Ma and Blah .•••••••.•. Robert Forsythe 29 Between Ourselves . • • . • . • • • • • • • • • . • . • • • 30 Drawings by V. Khrapovsky, Jack Kabat, Williams, ltorhi Gorelick, Gardner Rea David Alfaro Sequeiros. =========================== Vol. XI, No. 5 CONTENTS May 1, 1934 Editorial Comment . • • . . . . • . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 The Week's Papers..................... 5 All Out of Step but Trotsky. . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Education Under the Crisis 2-The Colleges .•.•••. Oakley Johnson 8 Catholic Fascism in Austria .. Jan Timescu 10 Life Is Like a Mountain RR Y oohoo ! Emjo Basshe 12 A Letter from America ..•. Barney Conal 14 Marching With a Song ....•• Ashley Pettis 15 Into the Streets May First Alfred Hayes and Aaron Copland 16 David Alfaro Siqueiros Charmion Von Wiegand 18 Correspondence • . • • • . . . . . . • . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Books ••.•..••.......•... , ..........•.. 24 The Experts Help, by John Phillips; With Malice Toward None, by Norman Macleod ; The Church Whistles, by Peter Martin; Poets and Peasants, by Isidor Schneider; The Old Freeman, by Murray Godwin; Without Plan or Purpose, by Benjamin B. Goldstein; Recollections of Roumania, by Clift6n Cuthbert: The Methods of Madness, by Bernhard J. Stern. Stevedore ................. Michael Gold 28 Let's Show Our Teeth .... Robert Forsythe 29 Between Ourselves •....................• 30 Drawings- by William Sanderson, Barlow, Richard Correll, Jacob · Burck, J. Serrano, and reproductions of murals by David Alfaro Siqueiros. ================================================= Vol. XI, No. 6 CONTENTS May 8, 1934 Editorial Comment..................... 3 The Week's Papers.................... 5 Editorials The Silver-Tongued Orator.......... 6 What the Teachers Can Do. • • • • • • • • 7 The Big May Day ........ Joseph North 8 The Teachers' Struggle •• Martha Andrews 12 Killing in a Hurry ...... John L. Spivak 13 He's Got Rhythm .••••••.•• Henry Hart 15 Alabama Miners Smash the Color Line Myra Page 16 The Swastika Sterilizes •• Paul Amberson 18 Correspondence •••••••.• , .• , ••. , • • . • • • . 20 Present Arms!, •••••. , .••• Harold Ward 21 Revolution and the Novel 5-Selection and Emphasis Granville Hicks 22 A Note on Max Eastman •• Joshua Kunitz 24 Books ••..•.••..•..••.•••....••••••••.. 25 Surfaces and Realities, by Granville Hicks; A Dying Horse, by Ella Winter; Smirt's Nertz, by Robert Forsythe; The Next War, by Arthur Heller; Mrs. Turner's San Quentin, by Arnold B. Armstrong; Novels Are Made by Novelists, by Otis C. Ferguson; Brief Reviews. Workers' Theatre Marches Mark Marvin 29 An Anti-Semitic Film ... Robert Forsythe 20 Between Ourselves. . . . . . . • . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Drawings by Del, Limbach, Scheel, and Rea. ============================================ Vol. XI, No. 7 CONTENTS May 15, 1934 Editorial Comment..................... 3 The Week's Papers.................... 6 General Johnson's Private Code Anne Allen Barten.... 8 Glassford in the Imperial Valley Richard Bransten 10 Spring in Dearborn .... W. D. Trowbridge 12 Dillinger's Dilemma ...... Robert Forsythe 13 A Morning with the Doc .. Albert Halper 14 Coal Scars and Cold Cream Robert Gessner 16 "Slum Clearance" Under Capitalism John Strachey 19 Correspondence ••.••....••.••..•.•.•.... 21 Mother and Child ..••.. Langston Hughes 22 Revolution and the Novel 6-The Problem of Documentation Granville Hicks 23 Books ................••.•..•...••...... 25 More Marx de Luxe, by Addison T. Cutler ; Professional Fascism, by Lei£ Dahl; Emancipation and Exploitation, by Grace Lumpkin; Another Liberal Collapse, by Bernard Smith; The Machine Runs Down, by Obed Brooks; A Scotch Tragedy, by James Steele. Negro Revolutionary Music Richard Frank 29 Drawings by Kainen, Arenal, Limbach, Burck, Del, Esther Krieger, and Rea. ============================================ Vol. XI, No. 8 CONTENTS May 22, 1934 Editorial Comment ••.••.....••••....... Editorials • • . • • . • • . . • . . . . . . . • . . . . . . . . . . 6 Labor Takes the Offensive The Pulitzer Prize Business ' Brain Trust ..••..•••.••. John L. Spivak 8 Upton Sinclair: Reactionary Utopian Sender Gar lin 10 Letters from America. . . . . . . . . • • . . . . . . • . 13 Steel Against Peace ...••.•. Harold Ward 16 Days in the Chinese Red Army Agnes Smedley 17 Correspondence • • . . . . . . . • . . . . . . . . . . . . . • 22 Revolution and the Novel 7-The Future of Proletarian Literature Granville Hicks 23 Books ••.••..•.••.••••••••••...••..•... 25 Covering the Retreat, by Scott Nearing; The Fool of Baltimore, by Hugh Cole; Engineers in Action, by Beatrice Kinkead; Certainly Not! by Philip Sterling; Another Para phrase of Ulysses, by Wallace Phelps; The Virtuosity of William Faulkner, by Muriel Rukeyser; Brief Reviews. Second Workers' Music Olympiad Ashley Pettis 28 The Screen ......••.••... Robert Forsythe 30 Between Ourselves . . . • • . • • . • • . . . . . . . . . • 30 Drawings by Kirk, L. Arena!, Esther Kriger, Jacob Burck, Phil Bard, Jack Kainen, and Richard Correll. =========================================== Vol. XI, No. 9 CONTENTS May 29, 1934 Editorial Comment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 The Week's Papers..................... 5 The Darrow Report.................... 6 "In Dixieland We Take Our Stand" John Howard Lawson 8 Down Among the Dead Men .. Merrill Root 10 Plaint of the Petit-Bourgeoisie in Santa Fe Norman Macleod 10 The Proletarian Physician Daniel Summer 11 Children of the Twilight James T. Farrell 13 Rivera's Counter-Revolutionary Road David Alfaro Siqueiros 16 English Communists and the Law Courts Joe Rivers 19 Culture and Fascism ..... Ilya Ehrenbourg 21 Correspondence ....... , . . . . . . . . . . . • . . . • 24 Books ...............•. _ ................ 25 Dr. Beard Straddles, by Carl Evans; Storm Over the Intellectuals, by Philip Rahv ; Stalin Reports, by Eugene Gordon; Blind Alleys in Economics, by Samuel Irving; Howl of Disgust, by Sylvia G. Glass; The Soft Brush of Pity, by Samuel Levenson; Brief Reviews. A Pro-War Film ......... Tom Brandon 29 Between Ourselves . . . . . . . . . • . . . . . . . . . • . 30 Drawings by Anton Refregier, Oscar Newman, Jack Kabat, L. Arenal. ============================================================= Vol. XI, No. 10 CONTENTS June 5, 1934 Editorial Comment • . . . • . . . . . . . • • . • . . • • • 3 The Week's Papers..................... 6 Announcing a Prize Novel Contest....... 7 Moley Attacks Communism............. 8 Picket Lines Across America ......•..••• 10 Automobile Workers in Toledo A. B. Magi! Truckmen in Minneapolis Sender Garlin Longshoremen on the Pacific Iris Hamilton Worker to his Baby ........... Don West 15 White Collar Workers and Students Swing Into Action . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • . . . . . . . . • 16 Harvard Learns about Law and Order Edwin Seaver The C.W.A. Workers Meet the Cops Margaret Wright Mather Early American Labor and Literature Alan Calmer 18 Critics in Mufti. .••...... Joseph Freeman 20 Textile Front ••..••.•...••. Harold Ward 22 Correspondence ...••.•..•....••.•... , • • 23 Books ••...••.••.......••••...••..•••. 24 Men of Iron, by Granville Hicks; People Without Work, by Grace Hutchins; Evolution of a Liberal, by 0. Frank; Politics and Fiction, by Edwin Seaver; Truth About Russia, by Liston Oak; A Mirror for the Bourgeoisie, by E. Y. Gilbert; A Lively Corpse, by Corliss Lamont; Study of a Child, by Robert Whitcomb. Workers Sing! ..•.•...•.. Aaron Copland 28 Eisenstein-to Goebbels An Open Letter. • • • • . • • . • . . . • . . • • • • 29 Between Ourselves . • . . . . . . . . . . • . . . • . . . • 30 Drawings by Burck, Mackey and Scheel ==================================================== Vol. XI, No. 11 CONTENTS June 12, 1934 Editorial Comment • • . . • . • . • • • • . . . . . • • • • 3 To the Men of the Fleet............... 6 The Week's Papers..................... .8 Columbia Fires Two Margaret Wright Mather 9 The Socialist Party Convention · A. B. Magi! 10 Working for the Government Jeremiah Kelly, Jr. 12 Literary Wars in the U.S.S.R. 1-From October to the NEP Joshua Kunitz 13 Four Wobblies .•..••••.•••.••. Ben Field 16 "I Am Tortured" Thaelmann Cries .....• 19 The Trial. •...••...•... Muriel Rukeyser 20 Correspondence • . . • • . • . . . • • . • . • • . . . . . . • 21 Books .....••..•...••.•............•.. 23 The Profits of Murder, by Guy Endore; Librarian's Hawaii, by Samuel Weinman ; A Family of Reformers, by Elizabeth Blake; A Great Unknown, by Arthur Heller; A Voice from the Grave, by Bernard Smith; Rorty's Revenge, by Frank Thompson; The Ideas of Aldous, by Edwin Seaver; Towards Understanding, by Peter Martin; The Jews' Choice, by Victor Ullman. The Revolutionary Dance ..••• Edna Ocko 27 Movie . . . . . • • • . . . • • . Muriel Rukeyser 28 Hollywood-and Gorky ••. Robert Forsythe 29 Glorified Horse Opera .•.•• Irving Lerner 29 Between Ourselves • . • . . • • . • • • • . • • . . . . • . 30 Drawings: Cover by Jacob Burck; other drawings by Burck, Mackey, Del, Reginald Marsh, Aaron Sopher, Mac Garrity, Gardner Rea, and Roberto. ================================================ Vol. XI, No. 12 CONTENTS June 19, 1934 Editorial Comment • . .. . . . . . . . . .. . . . . .. . 3 X Prepares for War. .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 The Week's Papers..................... 8 On the White Collar Front. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Diary Notes from a Steel Strike John Mullen 10 A Challenge to a Misleader .. A. B. Magi! 12 Right Things to Write .................. 13 Housing in Two Worlds ...... Sidney Hill 14 Alabama Justice in New York Martin Fields 16 Last Night ....•.......... Martha Millet 17 Hunger Camps in the South Louise Preece 18 Literary Wars in the U.S.S.R. 11-Alignment of Literary Forces Under the NEP ..... Joshua Kunitz 20 Correspondence-. . • . . • . . . . . • . . • . . . . . . • . . 24 Books ...•..................•..•....... 25 The Magic Mountain's Mouse, by Granville Hicks; The Impending Crisis, by Edwin Seaver; Revolution and Mental Hygiene, by D. W. De Armand ; Confusion in Brookfield, by Paul Romaine; Dewey's Esthetics, by Wallace Phelps; The Southern Middle Class Replies, by James S. Allen. The Church and the Can-Can Robert Forsythe 28 A Dry Martini with Cyanide Irving Lerner 29 Between Ourselves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Drawings by Funk, Burck, Sopher, Harry Sternberg, William Hernandez. ================================== Vol. XI, No. 13 CONTENTS June 26, 1934 Editorial Comment • . . . • • . • • • • . • • • • . • • . • 3 Educating the Army. • . • • • . . • . . . . . . . . . . • 6 The Week's Papers..................... 8 Raymond Maley: Provocateur-in-Chief for the New Deal .. Wiiiiam Francis Dunne 9 A Balanced Diet ........................ 13 How to Become an Idol . Edward Newhouse 14 1400 People: One Water Faucet G. E. Barr 14 "Georgia Wants Me-Dead or Alive" Don West 15 I Have Seen Black Hands Richard Wright 16 Japan Rides the Tiger ..•.. Harold Ward 17 Literary Wars in the U.S.S.R. III-Smugglers of Reaction in Soviet Letters •..••.••••• Joshua Kunitz 18 The Jew as Fascist A Letter from Canada .•.• Ben Malkin 20 Correspondence • • . • . • • . • • . . . . • . . . . • . • • • 21 The Tombstone Swastika Edward Dahlberg 22 25 Books: The Devil and Mr. Eliot, by Obed Brooks; The Specialist, by Leon Dennen; Green Mountain Antique, by Thomas Boyd; The Drama of Scottsboro, by Ben Blake; Rabbit's Foot Rogers, by Scott Nearing; Lullaby of Leaves, by Murray Godwin. 28 Music of, by and for the Masses by Ashley Pettis "Epic of an Era" Samuel Brody and Tom Brandon 29 Between Ourselves • • . . • . . . • • . • • • • . • • • • . 30 Drawings by B. Limbach, Jacob Burck, Esther Kriger, Stephen Alexander, Hyman Warsager, Mabel Dwight, Mackey. ====================================================