 One inside the Socialist Party, however, Gitlow started to have doubts about the Militants.The general pro-communist tone of the Militants upset him, especially after they started co-operating with the Communists organizationally during the popular front period.He was dismayed by the merger of the Student League for Industrial Democracy into the American Student Union, and the entry of the CP-affiliated Unemployed Councils into the Workers Alliance of America for fear the new organizations would be controlled by the Communist Party.