During the bitter faction fights of the 1930s in the Socialist Party, DeWitt authored a weekly piece for "The Socialist Call," a newspaper published each Saturday in New York City in opposition to the journal of the Old Guard faction, "The New Leader." DeWitt authored a regular column called "Turn to the Left," in which he expounded upon his political beliefs. While not accepting the Old Guard's extreme gradualist approach, neither was DeWitt a communist. With regard to the Communist Party's efforts to establish a united front in 1935, DeWitt wrote: