At this gathering a resounding victory was won by the party's so-called "Militant" faction, composed for the most part of young revolutionary socialists, working in conjunction with the group of radical pacifists surrounding Norman Thomas.
A first pamphlet was published called Detroit and the Party, written by former New York State Assemblyman Charles Solomon.
"[1] Solomon noted that over "the past three or four years" there had arisen "certain definite groups" in the ranks of the Socialist Party.
This latter document declared that throughout its 30-year history the Socialist Party had "proclaimed to the nation its purpose to bring about fundamental and radical changes in our poltiical [sic?]
(political) and social structure by an appeal to the intelligence of the working class, relying on the orederly [sic?]
[6] This ultra-revolutionary verbiage would only serve to alienate organized labor from the Socialist Party and bring about government repression, the committee contended.