The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-27
Periodicals
and Bulletins
THE NEW ORDER-Internati0nal
Workers Order-NOvember, 1884
Five cents.
Reviewed by
MURIEL RUKEYSER

Reviewed by
MURIEL RUKEYSER
THE New Order has become one Of
1 the most ambitious of magazines,
attempting to touch on the fields
Of number Of others, tying them
up through the International Work
ers Order. It proves, with this
latest number, what it can do COM
pletely on its own. Last month it
relied on cuts from the New Masses,
this time it illustrates its own arti-
cles and stories. Turning the pages
the reader will recognize what this
sort Of ambition has done for a
publication which might easily have
remained confined to organizational
news and still would have been
strong.
The New Order ranges now from
an effective piece of reportage by
Grace Lumpkin, through poems and
articles on Scottsboro and the at
tack in the South on the I. w. o.,
to large well-made youth section.
1t takes over the material of the
Working Woman, the Labor De-
fender, the Young Worker, and the
New Masses, profiting by its organi-
rational outlook.
The suggestion is that fresh ma
terial be used-that organizational
news need not repeat the history
of ScottSboro in each issue, that
every discovery need not be that of
new Fascist step. In the last two
issues of the New Order, the arti-
cles, with the exception of those on
workers insurance. determinations
and on the raids in Georgia, have
been blanket news reports of fam
Gus or obvious material. But this
has been Offset by features like the
excellent correspondence columns
and the women's page, balancing
the magazine as a strong, growing
expression.
THE MONTHLY REVIEW De-
cember, 1934-Fifteen cents.
OF, HOWEVER, I am required to
make an additional declaration,
it means that I am requested to
make a patriotic demonstration, a
patriotic gesture, and this I refuse
to do" Moissaye Olgin made
this statement to the New School
for Social Research when he was
required to sign the "Oath of Al
legiance." He has not heard from
them since, and his interview is
featured in this fifth issue of The
Monthly Review.
With its emphasis on culture and
all the struggles of culture today,
The Monthly Review reports the
librarians strike, the PWAP. in
w ashin gton, and includes a
monthly economic survey by the
Labor Research Association. On
the literary side, there is an IN
employment Council story by Clara
Severn, story by Fred Miller, and
poems by Kenneth Fearing and
Philip Cornwall Isidor Schneider
continues the who's Who in JAIL
paragraphs that used to appear in
Political Prisoners, and which is an
excellent news-digest form in the
fight for the defense of those
readers behind bars" Short,
cracking summaries, reviews, analy-
ses, have the virtue of being able
to stand up separately.
The Monthly Review, as con-
trasted with magazine like The
New Order, points the situation of
the extra organizational publica-
ton. Here we lack the strength
of movement to drive home its
literature like a driven wedge; but
here additional care has been taken
editorially to make each item stand
on its own feet, not depending on
the organization to back it up.
Frankly a white collar magazine
with white-collar appeal, having
as its aim the unification of all
white-collar workers against CAPT.
talism, The Monthly Review sup
plments the workers publications.
1t has good chance of reaching
offices and homes where workers
magazines have not yet penetrated
and of opening those doors for the
others; and, on the basis of its
platform, it is impossible for it to
fall into the mucilage liberalism
which impedes many magazines of
the same form and a parallel ap-
peal.
Such news article as Lebanon
Hospital Workers Organize" by
Mildred Stock, is the immediate,
factual sort of news story that the
organizations need to publish in their
magazines. Their part here is to
follow up the work among the pro-
feSsionals that The Monthly Re-
view proposes, to come into the
place made by this magazine, fore
ing the attention of professionals
and white-collar workers on the
unions, clubs, and organizations
ready for them. In the meantime
The Monthly Review makes a
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