Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Yayin aiki a kan wasan kwaikwayo Hay ya sadu da actor Will Geer, wanda ya shiga dangantaka. Geer ya kasance mai ra'ayin hagu, tare da Hay daga baya ya bayyana shi a matsayin malamin siyasa. Geer ya gabatar da Hay ga al'ummar hagu na Los Angeles, kuma tare suka shiga cikin fafutuka, shiga zanga-zangar kare hakkin ma'aikata da marasa aikin yi, kuma a wani lokaci sun ɗaure kansu ga fitilu a waje da UCLA don rarraba takardun shaida ga Ƙungiyar Amurka da Yaƙi da Fascism. Sauran kungiyoyin da ya shiga tare da ayyukan sun hada da End Poverty a California, Hollywood Anti-Nazi League, Mobilization for Democracy, da Workers 'Alliance of America. Hay da Geer sun shafe karshen mako a San Francisco a lokacin yajin aikin gari na 1934
, inda suka ga 'yan sanda suka bude wuta a kan masu zanga-zangar, suka kashe biyu; wannan taron ya kara sadaukar da Hay ga canjin al'umma. Hay ya shiga ƙungiyar wasan kwaikwayo ta agitprop da ke nishaɗi a cikin yaƙe-yaƙe da zanga-zanga; wasan kwaikwayon su na "Jiran Lefty" a cikin 1935 ya haifar da hare-hare daga ƙungiyar 'yan fascist Friends of New Germany.