The New Masses. Vol. 15 No. 4. April 23, 1935.

Contents: Editorial Comment, Socialists Hedge Again, Letters From America, Coughlin Crusades Against Labor by A.B. Magil, Wildcat Coal by Necho Allen, Soviet Asia Sings by Joshua Kunitz, Strike Sweeps the Campus by James Wechsler, Correspondence, Review and Comment, Waldo Frank and the Left by Edward Dahlberg, The Path of Regeneration by John Howard Lawson, Agrarianism, Whose United States? by Ed Newhouse, Recent Magazines by Stephen Alexander, Current Theatre by Allen Chumley, Art by Stephen Alexander, Movies by Peter Ellis, The Dance by Stanley Burnshaw, The Book Union, Between Ourselves, Drawings by Russell T. Limbach, Louis Lozowick, Martin, Mackey, Hainsley.

The New Masses was the continuation of Workers Monthly which began publishing in 1924 as a merger of the ‘Liberator’, the Trade Union Educational League magazine ‘Labor Herald’, and Friends of Soviet Russia’s monthly ‘Soviet Russia Pictorial’ as an explicitly Communist Party publication, but drawing in a wide range of contributors and sympathizers. In 1927 Workers Monthly ceased and The New Masses began. A major left cultural magazine of the late 1920s and early 1940s, the early editors of The New Masses included Hugo Gellert, John F. Sloan, Max Eastman, Mike Gold, and Joseph Freeman. Writers included William Carlos Williams, Theodore Dreiser, John Dos Passos, Upton Sinclair, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, Dorothy Parker, Dorothy Day, John Breecher, Langston Hughes, Eugene O’Neill, Rex Stout and Ernest Hemingway. Artists included Hugo Gellert, Stuart Davis, Boardman Robinson, Wanda Gag, William Gropper and Otto Soglow. Over time, the New Masses became narrower politically and the articles more commentary than comment. However, particularly in it first years, New Masses was the epitome of the era’s finest revolutionary cultural and artistic traditions.

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