List of Communist publications

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  • The Daily Worker published by Freedom of the Press, Inc., New York City. Benjamin J. Davis, Jr., president; Howard Boldt, secretary-treasurer; John Gates, editor; Milton Howard, associate editor; Alan Max, managing editor; Robert F. Hall, Washington, D. C., editor; Bill Lawrence, general manager; and George C. Sandy, assistant manager. David Platt, film editor.
  • The Worker published only on Sunday, had the same management and publisher as the Daily Worker.
  • Political Affairs, a monthly publication, published by the New Century Publishers, New York, N. Y. The editor was Max Weiss; associate editors, V. J. Jerome, Alex Bittleman, Abner W. Berry, and Jack Stachel. Political Affairs is direct successor to The Communist.
  • Morning Freheit was published daily by the Morning Freiheit Association, Inc., New York, N. Y. The president wass Ben Gold; treasurer, J. Littinski; secretary, Alex Bittleman. Paul Novick, editor.
  • People's Daily World published by the Pacific Publishing Foundation, Inc., San Francisco, California. Branches located in Los Angeles, Oakland, San Diego, Seattle, and Washington, D.C. The executive editor was Al Richmond; assistant editor, Adam Lapin; Los Angeles editor, Sidney Burke; business manager, Harry Kramer; and circulation manager, Leo Baroway. Doug Ward, political editor. Tara Jean Pettit was the agent in Los Angeles.
  • Soviet Russia Today, a monthly magazine published by the Soviet Russia Today Publications, Inc., New York, N. Y. The editor was Jessica Smith; assistant editor, Andrew Voynow; business manager, Donald Schoalman; literary editor, Isadore Schneider; editorial board, Dorothy Brewster, Robert Dunn, Thyra Edwards, A. A. Heller, Langston Hughes, Dr. John Kingsbury, Corliss Lamont, George Marshall, Isobel Walker Soule, and Maxwell S. Stewart.
  • The Chart with offices in New York, N. Y., was issued by the National Organization and Education Commissions of the Communist Party of the United States. Jack Stachel was chairman of the education commission, and Henry Winston was chairman of the organization commission.
  • Masses & Mainstream was printed in New York, N. Y., by Mainstream Associates, Inc. The editor-in-chief was Samuel Sillen. The editors were Gwendolyn Bennett, Alvah Bessie, Milton Blau, Arnaud D 'Usseau, Howard Fast, Mike Gold, V. J. Jerome, Howard Lawson, Meridel LeSeuer, W. L. River, Dalton Trumbo, and Theodore Ward.
  • People's Voice (Glos Ludowy), with offices in Detroit, Mich., was a semi-monthly publication. It is a foreign-language paper as well, known as Glos Ludowy. The editor was Thomas Dombrowski; contributing editor, Jan Kujawa, San Francisco; contributing editors, Cornell Z. Zagodzinski, Casimir T. Nowacki, Irene Pietrowski, Grace Nowacki, Walter Bills, Stanley Perry, Blanche Glinski, John Piorkowski, Martin Darvin, Ted Pniewski, Katherine Giermanski, Jetka Dobrzynska, and Joseph S. Rabowski.
  • Railroad Worker's' Link was published by the Communist Party in New York, N. Y., as a monthly publication. The editor was Robert Wood.
  • District Champion was published by the city committee of the Communist Party of the District of Columbia, with offices located in Washington' D. C. It was published monthly. The editor was William C. Taylor; secretary, Elizabeth Searle.
  • Chicago Star was published weekly by the Chicago Star Publishing Co., Inc., Chicago, Ill. Members of the board of directors were Ernest De Maio, Frank Marshall Davis, William L. Patterson, Grant Oakes, and William Sennett. The executive editor was Frank M. Davis; managing editor, Carl Hirsch; and general manager, William Sennett. Howard Fastwas a columnist, and Rockwell Kent a contributing editor.
  • Teeners' Topics, published irregularly, was an American Youth for Democracy publication, with offices located in' New York, N. Y. Teen Life was published by New Age Publishers, Inc., in Meriden, Conn., for American Youth for Democracy.
  • Crisis was the organ of the East Pittsburgh section of the Commmunist Party.
  • Jewish Life, New York, N. Y., was published monthly by the Morning Freiheit Association, Inc. The editorial board is composed of Alex Bittleman, Moses Miller, Paul Novick, Sam Pevzner, and Morris U. Schappes. Managing editor was Samuel Barron.
  • Woman Power was published monthly by the Congress of American Women in New York, N. Y. Members of the editor board are Edna Moss, Bert Sigred, and Eleanor Vaughn. The president was Gene Weltfish; executive vice president, Muriel Draper; treasurer, Helen Phillips; and secretary, Josephine Timms.
  • Facts for Farmers was published monthly by the Farm Research, New York, N. Y. The editor was Robert J. Coe. Harold Ware was its founder.[1]Robert Coe was president of Farm Research Incorporated and wrote for the Political Affairs under the pseudonym Robert Digby.[2]
  • Facts for Women was published monthly by Facts for Women, Los Angeles, California. The editor was Mary Inman.
  • Among Friends was published monthly by Friends of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, New York, N. Y. The editor was David McKelvy White; editor, Rex Pitkin. Contributors include Louis Fischer, Dorothy Parker, Ernest Hemingway, Grace Field, Lini Fuhr, Sam Kornblatt, Milly Bennett, and Herbert Hunter.
  • Congress View was published monthly by the National Negro Congress, New York, N. Y. The president was Max Yergen; executive secretary, Edward E. Strong; treasurer, Ferdinand C. Smith; secretary, Thelma Dale; labor and legislation director, Dorothy K. Funn; director of publicity, Mayme Brown; editorial board, W. Alphaeus Hunton, Frederick V. Field, Mayme Brown, and Elizabeth Catlett.

References

  1. Sam Tanenhaus, Whittaker Chambers: A Biography (Modern Library, 1998), ISBN 0-375-75145-9 [1]
  2. John Earl Haynes annotations to "Adolf Berle’s Notes on his Meeting with Whittaker Chambers.