Jones wrote several pieces for
The Masses
Perhaps the most vibrant and innovative magazine of its day, The Masses was founded in 1911 as an illustrated socialist monthly, and it was soon sponsoring a heady blend of radical politics and modernist aesthetics that earned it the popular sobriquet “the most dangerous magazine in America.” The magazine had three editors during its first two years—Thomas Seltzer, Horatio Winslow, and Piet Vlag (the magazine's founder)—but for the remainder of its short life The Masses was brilliantly edited by Max Eastman, who—with Floyd Dell, as managing editor—helped turn it into the flagship journal of Greenwich Village, the burgeoning bohemian art community in New York...
There are digitized copies of the periodical in a number of repositories, but the version at New York University's Tamiment Library's Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives at New York University, includes an index from which the following is extracted [links added here].
Jones, Ellis O. “Address to Child Laborers by the Honorable Bumptious Uplift” V, 1, p-11 (Oct 1913)
-. “Casabianca” (poem) IV, 6, p-12 (Mar 1913)
-. “Direct and Indirect Action” III, 4, p-8 (Apr 1912)
-. “Getting Next to Mr. Armour” IV, 7, p-17 (Apr 1913)
-. “God’s Advice” IV, 9, p-12 (Jun 1913)
-. “Happy Little Scheme” IX, 3, p-40 (Jan 1917)
-. “Interview” IV, 7, p-16 (Apr 1913)
-. “Is Annapolis An Anachronism?” IV, 6, p-9 (Mar 1913)
-. “Journalistic Poise” V, 6, p-20 (Mar 1914)
-. “Magazines, Morgan, and Muckraking” I, 4, p-10 (Apr 1911)
-. “Not Satisfactory” IV, 11, p-15 (Aug 1913)
-. “Poor Pennsylvania!” V, 1, p-19 (Oct 1913)
-. “Railroads” I, 2, p-16 (Feb 1911)
-. “S.C.P.W.G.” [Society for Curtailing the Pleasures of Working Girls] IV, 8, p-17 (May 1913)
-. “Those Two Bad Bills” IV, 9, p-17 (Jun 1913)
-. “Trick of the Trade” IV, 3, p-9 (Dec 1912)
In 1919, in partnership with the socialist cartoonist Art Young, Ellis O. Jones founded a political humor magazine called Good Morning. The two had worked together for The Masses, and had tired of not being paid for their work. Good Morning didn't last long. After only a few issues, Jones "became critical of the haphazard management of the business" and resigned.
