Norman Thomas speaks at the national Socialist Party of America convention in Detroit in 1934

Title card: "Socialists to the Left" Detroit - National Socialist Convention Near Split as Radicals Gain Control! Norman Thomas Leads New Factions into Power with Fiery Speech." / MS Norman Thomas speaks at the convention: "The Socialists are here assembled to say to our public the old order is dying, dying past hope of cure by any messiah or any patent medicine. It will fail. It will fail in war and fascism." conference attendees applaud and cheer / CU Thomas: "And the second thing we have to say is socialism is the alternative to this catastrophe. This socialism is what we seek to establish. For if we seek power and to establish socialism it is our great, our only end." more cheers / Note: exact day not known