The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-22
By Joseph Freeman

= RETURN1No ecturing
and organizing find that magazine called The Modern Monthly
publishing attacks revolutionary arts and letters
= IN the Soviet Union and this country.
i During the this of professional
ontaned entitled artists in Uniform consisted of the usual
charges alleged reign OF terror
by literature and art.
AS analysed Artists in Uniform became obvious that the
uOnary grinding political axe
airing personal remarkable the annals bohemian
"a L myself
e 1ed the by p he ge54 that we have not written anything
idyuic
Uniform" has been living for the past ten But it matter Of
both published
countries have read with Mixes Jews Without Money
published Diplomacy" collaboration
land The Soviet Worker on my own account All three these books
received good notices here and abroad and have been read by many
people During the past ten have also published much prose and
Indeed Modern Monthly the last publication in the world
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cd with this magazine they have not only found my pieces published
little too WELL one might
HOWEVER unworthy
@ would have ignored but for another article which appeared in the
piece too full of transformation and personal malice But it is worth
through them to illuminate problems of general interest
The auhorpehaps should nvnoof Stains Literary In
having said few months ago that have written nothing in
7 past ten years worth reading suddenly finds it worth his while to
read first chapter Voices of October which appeared 1890 How
that he his
best that Voices October terrible
general interest
the scribe speaks in the of and lofty political ideals the
and method he employs to his thesis Here is how the
Monhs Soviet literature charactees Voices of
Voices published Literary
to deatae How much OF the real truth was be found In its
documentary opand in general what trust can be
official
information life
paradise creative life the
ended described the officials themselves vetab DEATH
The author and inventor of stains Literary 1nquaon to be
Congratulated Imagination,
excellence his literary style good style one in which an author
most in the least space our Scribe has it. In two sentences he has
packed in truly remarkable number OF lies
Take example that subordinate which Scribe charges
euine ofHc done from, Moscow which "passed out as first
hand information about life the Soviet Union Surely even rabd
DOTH Joshua Kunz and Louis ozowck speak,
80 fun They have made visits to the Soviet Union They have
travelled Siberia They have worked the
wide
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wasg gathered in the Soviet
knowledge the Russian language Soviet and literature
" Kuntz
lived
have been in contact with Soviet nteectuals
THAT went into chapters in Voices of October
AS readily imagine Union from
study
the literature,
in helping me to gather material and what was more
3
aons with members of the poetarn Ma Postu like
Dnamov and
like Mayakovky Brick with the film
knew many travellers and even talked with and learned from
that victim of Stains Literary Inquiston the crc-edtor vyache
sav Poons Nor did confn my Investigations to Moscow talked
parts o RsFsR, n Ieningrad.
49, andI
Union official dope
to
depths either of intellectual moral responsibility
And that great pity For the author Of these peperous charges
anding the Soviet Union he think of nothing better than
exception to the rule that attacks the Soviet Union
shah take up another phase of the Modern Monthlys
attack revolutionary
j Helpipp the Dailv Worker tbroupb Michael Gold