The New Masses. Vol. 21 No. 6. November 3, 1936.

Contents: That Man Marcantonio by Bruce Minton, Spain’s Famous Fifth by James Hawthorne, Somosierra Charge by Eugene Schachner, Conning the News, Terre Haute Second Round by Marguerite Young, Getting in Deeper by Joashua Kunitz, A Letter to My Parents by Willard Maas, How Not to Waste Your Ballot by Joseph Freeman, Pax Americana by Clyde O Hunter, Readers Forum, Editorial, Lincoln Steffan’s Last Book by Rockwell Kent, The Social Conscience by Milton Howard, Freedom for the Press Fakirs by George Seldes, Without Malice by Isidor Schneider, A Literary Event by Rolfe Humphries, Women’s Supplement by Marjorie Brace, Proletarian without Gloom by Leanne Zugsmith, Theater, Screen, Dance.

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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