Throughout its first year, the publication campaigned against the threat of international war, fascism, child labor, and deficiencies in the American education system and lobbied on behalf of efforts to politically organize unemployed workers and to expand the trade union movement.
[1] The first issue of The Challenge featured a lengthy masthead, including Arthur G. McDowell as Editor, James Quick, Bob Parker, Jack Jaffe, Aaron Levenstein, and Paul Rasmussen as Associate Editors, Hy Fish as Business Manager, and a Socialist Party list including Norman Thomas, Powers Hapgood, Upton Sinclair, and Oscar Ameringer as "Contributing Editors.
[3] Devin was replaced by Melos Most, who had previously been a delegate to the executive committee meeting of the Socialist Youth International, held in Belgium in 1934.
[4] Ernest Erber, National Secretary of the YPSL, had taken sole charge of the editorial task.
Associate Editors: James Quick, Bob Parker, Jack Jaffe, Aaron Levenstein, Paul Rasmussen.
Associate Editors: James Quick, Bob Parker, Jack Jaffe, Aaron Levenstein.
Associate Editors: James Quick, Bob Parker, Ben Fischer, Aaron Levenstein.
Associate Editors: James Quick, Bob Parker, Ben Fischer, Aaron Levenstein.