The
New York Call was founded in 1908. It soon established itself
as America's leading socialist newspaper.
The paper opposed United States involvement in the First
World War and this resulted in it being prosecuted under the Espionage
Act.
People
who wrote for the New York Call include Agnes
Smedley, Margaret Sanger, Robert
Minor, Kate Richards O'Hare, Eugene
Debs and Elizabeth Flynn.
The newspaper also suffered under the Red
Scare and its offices were raided and wrecked in 1919. The New
York Call did not have its second-class mailing privileges restored
until June, 1921. Norman Thomas, the future
leader of the Socialist Party of America,
became editor of the newspaper but this failed to stop it being closed
down in 1923.
Eugene Debs speaking at a meeting organised
by The Call
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