“Rough going had been encountered by the Masses in its efforts to remain a medium for free interpretation in a time of hysteria. Because of its pitiless reporting in trying to reveal true causes, its lack of respect for commercialized religion, and its attacks on sex taboos in art and literature, the magazine had earlier been barred from the reading rooms of many libraries, ousted from the subway and elevated news stands in New York, and refused by distributing companies of Boston and Philadelphia; and our right to use the mails in Canada had been revoked by the Dominion government” New YorkCanadaCensorshipBostonPhiladelphiaThe Masses Book:Art Young: His Life and Times Source: Art Young: His Life and Times
“For three months after the United States declared war on Germany the Masses kept on assailing the jingoists, the profiteers, and the capitalists who caused the beating and deportation of strikers, the Post Office censorship, and other evils which had been loosed in the campaign to silence all critics of the war administration.” WarGermanyCensorshipWorld War IPost OfficeWorld War 1Capitalists Book:Art Young: His Life and Times Source: Art Young: His Life and Times