Friends at Columbia included Herbert Solow, Meyer Schapiro, Whittaker Chambers, George Novack, John McDonald, and Sidney Hook.
"[1] His journalism was later collected into book form and translated into Russian for publication in the Soviet Union in 1933 as Life in the United States in this Depression.
Shortly after, the Trostkyist faction of SPA (including Morrow) split to form the Socialist Workers Party (SWP).
"[5] In 1945 he was displaced by E R Frank (Bert Cochran) on the maneuvers of James P. Cannon and the SWP majority who opposed his views on perspectives for European Trotskyists at the mid-war point.
Morrow was one of 18 SWP leaders, including the party's National Secretary, James P. Cannon, imprisoned under the Smith Act during the Second World War, receiving a 16-month sentence.
Morrow and Goldman projected the likelihood of a prolonged period of bourgeois democracy in western Europe and emphasised the need for democratic and transitional demands against the maximalism advocated by the majority.
[citation needed] In the early 1950s, with the help of friends Meyer Schapiro and Elliot Cohen, Morrow was hired by Schocken Books, working first as salesman and soon as a vice president there.
In the late 1950s Morrow founded University Books, publishing hundreds of titles under that imprint, including a number of reprints.