New Masses. Vol. 17 No. 12. December 17, 1935. Anti-Fascist Number.

Contents: Editorial Comment, Christmas, 1935 by Sinclair Lewis, “Hail ye Heroes, Heav’n Born Band” by Franklin P. Adams, Blackmailing Ethiopia by John Strachey, La Madama Smiles by John L. Spivak, The Guild Cracks Down by Marguerite Young, Fred Bass and the Norman Case by Bruce Minton, United Front Opens Herndon’s Jail by Joseph North, Choral Ballade by Emanuel Eisenberg, Bill Smith’s Clinic by Bill Smith, “Shirley Temple, You Traitor!” by Arthur Kober, School Days by Arthur Beecher, The Green, White and Blue by George S. Kaufman, The German Girls! The German Girls! by Archibald MacLeish, John O’Hara’s Dilemma by John O’Hara, Passion and Prices in Nazi Land by J. Dickty, Clerical Crape by W.E. Farbstein, Red Nettles by Harry Thornton Moore, War Fever by Lawrence Lipton, Wall Street’s Prayer to Father Coughlin by Albert Raffi, “Thunder Over Alma Mater” by S.J. Perelman, John Reed in Czarist Russia by Granville Hicks, Correspondence, Review and Comment: A New Magazine by Alan Calmer, The Dilemma of the Middle Class by David Ramsey, The Eye and the Mind by Lynd Ward, The Theater by Bruce Minton, A Spoonful of History by James T. Farrell, Why I Am Not a Fascist by Robert Forsythe, Two Dostoyevskis by Peter Ellis, Between Ourselves, Drawings by Limbach, Morley, Gardner Rea, Chas. Addams, A. Redfield, Adolf Dehn, Ned Hilton, William Gropper, Robt Day, William Steig, Frank Stanley, Wolfe, Garrett Price, Art Young, Aime Gauvin, Franz Masereel, Ellison Hoover, Ernest W. Hainsly.

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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