"Contributors to The Anvil, successor to The Rebel Poet, and members of the Proletarian Writers' League, successor to The Rebel Poets, need not be Communists, of course. My associate editors and I are going to try to present vital, vigorous material drawn from the farms, mines, mills, factories and offices of America. We'll not devote much space to theoretical problems. For theoretical guidance, we refer you to The New Masses and International Literature."
--Jack Conroy, The Anvil, May 1933

"A National Organizational Committee of Nineteen headed by Jack Conroy, editor-in-chief of THE ANVIL, is forming branches of two associations [to help save THE ANVIL]. The first is THE ANVIL LEAGUE OF WRITERS, organized in District Locals and Units, with membership limited exclusively to short story authors and poets. The League will seek to raise the $600 minimum needed annually for the publication on an enlarged scale of the first revolutionary fiction magazine founded in the United States.
The League also will try to improve the literary standard of THE ANVIL and to develop promising young writers. It will urge authors not only to deal with proletarian material but also to create revolutionary stories by bringing out the implications of the ceaseless class struggle between capital and labor, the internal conflicts within the classes as seen from a revolutionary viewpoint."
--National Organizational Committee (Jack Conroy-Chairman), The Anvil, Jan. 1935

Compiled by David Tulis (Class of '05, Davidson College)