In turn, Browder's father instructed the children in reading, writing, and arithmetic and, most importantly, in class consciousness. Browder's political education began in earnest at the age of ten, when he began attending Socialist meetings with his parents and both read and helped distribute the Socialist paper
Appeal to Reason. In 1907 Browder joined the Socialist Party and became active in the "Appeal Army" (an apparent inspiration for the "Browder Brigade" of the
Daily Worker, which Browder organized during the 1930s), a loyal group of distributors who circulated approximately one million copies of
Appeal to Reason on a weekly basis. During Eugene V. Debs's presidential campaign the following year, Browder also peddled party periodicals and campaigned for Debs. Through these party activities Browder was introduced to Marxist-influenced "Socialist classics," which clearly formed the foundation upon which his later writings, speeches, and addresses were built.
After taking a job as an accountant at the age of nineteen and marrying Gladys L. Groves in January 1911, Browder moved to Kansas City, Kansas, where he took a job tending books for a Standard Oil Trust subsidiary.
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