The New Masses. Vol. 24 No. 3. July 13, 1937.

Contents: What’s Going On in the Soviet Union? by Sam Darcy, Steel’s Soldiers of Fortune by William B. Smith, Editorial Comment, Trotsky’s Agents in Spain by James Hawthorne, Under the Bright, Bright Moon by Charles Bradford, Union Square A Poem by Alfred Hayes, Three Letters, Readers’ Forum, The Mind and Face of German Fascism by William Dean, European Workers by C. D. Manchester, Ethereal Weapon by Lucien Zacharoff, The Vital Spark by Andreas Wist, Brief Reviews, Recently Recommended Books, The Screen by Peter Ellis, Phonograph Music by John Hammond, The Fine Arts by Charmion von Wiegand, Forthcoming Broadcasts, Recently Recommended Movies and Plays, ART BY Hugo Gellert (cover), Louis Lozowick, Arthur Getz, Hyman Warsager, Joseph Serrano, Scott Johnston, Crockett Johnson, A. Birnbaum, William Sanderson, William Jacobs, John Heliker, Herb Kruckman, Robert Joyce, George Zaetz, John Mackey.

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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