Record of the debate held at New York City’s Madison Square Garden on November 27, 1935 between Socialist Party leader Norman Thomas and Communist Party leader Earl Browder.

Which Road for American Workers, Socialist or Communist? Norman Thomas vs Earl Browder. Published by Socialist Call, New York. January, 1936.

Contents: Foreword, Statement of Chairman Kryzcki, Opening Speech of Norman Thomas, Opening Speech of Earl Browder, Rebuttal by Norman Thomas, Rebuttal by Earl Browder, Sur-rebuttal by Norman Thomas. 46 pages.

Socialist Call began as a weekly newspaper in New York in early 1935 by supporters of the Socialist Party’s Militant Faction Samuel DeWitt, Herbert Zam, Max Delson, Amicus Most, and Haim Kantorovitch, with others to rival the Old Guard’s ‘New Leader’. The Call Education Institute was also inaugurated as a rival to the right’s Rand School. In 1937, the Call as the Militant voice would fall victim to Party turmoil, becoming a paper of the Socialist Party leading bodies as it moved to Chicago in 1938, to Milwaukee in 1939, where it was renamed “The Call” and back to New York in 1940 where it eventually resumed the “Socialist Call” name and was published until 1954.

PDF of original pamphlet: https://stars.library.ucf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1138&context=prism