JOHN REED CLUBS
A National Secretariat of the
John Reed Clubs, consisting of
Joseph Freeman, Joshua Kunitz,
Phil Bard, William Siegel and
Alan Calmer,
was formed last
month. Reports dealing with the
work of the Clubs since their
regional conferences in the summer
of '33 indicate the development of
the revolutionary cultural move-
ment in this country.
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Leading members of the Chi-
cago JRC have been active among
local artists. They are members of
the Chicago Artists Equity, which,
to quote Gilbert Rocke, executive
secretary of the Club, "came into
existence as a united front of
protest against conditions under
which we are forced to live and
produce our art." Hundreds of
artists in the Equity protested
against an official reception of
Hans Wideman, Nazi painter and
Hitler representative to the World
Fair. Mass protests against the
Public "Vorks of Arts Project have
been led by JRC artists.
•
Harry Carlisle, one of the char-
ter members of the Hollywood
]RC came to Santa Fe late last
year to complete his second novel.
There he met Philip Stevenson,
author of an outstanding story
which appeared in the New Mas-
ses.
Together they organized a
local JRC. Members of the group
carry on work among the Mexican
and Spanish natives and among the
miners at Madrid. They are also
influencing the numerous painters
and authors who stop at the local
art colony.
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The Artists' Group of the New
York JRC is holding a memorial
exhibition of sculpture and draw-
ing by Jacob Dainoff. DainofI
( 1884-1933) was one of the few
artists in America whose iife was
an intrinsic part of the revolution-
ary struggle of the working class.
He was a professional revolutionist
in Czarist Russia even before the
1905 revolution. During his active
life as a labor organizer, Dainoff
created a genuine working class
art.
He experimented with new
media, doing his own casting in
cheap metals and working them
together with various woods.
A
catalogue containing reproductions
of his work,
together with a
lengthy biography, may be obtain-
ed from the Club at 430 Sixth
Avenue, New York. (lOc).
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An outstanding series of mural
paintings has just been completed
in the Daily Worker Builders'
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