No Conscription League

Ingen værnepligt ligaen. 1. Amerikansk  militærnægterorganisation grundlagt i maj 1917 kort før USAs deltagelse i første verdenskrig. Organisationens aktiviteter under verdenskrigen er bl.a. overvåget af forbundspolitiet og beskrevet af Lusk udvalget.
Blandt medlemmerne var Alexander Berkman og Emma Goldman.
2. Britisk militærnægterorganisation omkring 1940.
Se også: Manhatten Anti Conscription League, 1917-?

Litteratur

Jewish Women's Archive: JWA - Emma Goldman - No-Conscription League.
http://www.jwa.org/exhibits/wov/goldman/noconscript.html
Dorothy Day From Union Square to Rome, Chapter 7 - Reporting
- http://www.catholicworker.org/dorothyday/daytext.cfm?TextID=207 'Treason' To Oppose Draft; Magistrate Fuchs Warns of Prison Sentences for Offenders. I: The New York Times, May 22, 1917.
Federal Agents Watch Anti-Draft Efforts Here; No-Conscription League Here Has Issued 100,000 Circulars Opposing Registration. I: The New York Times, May 31, 1917.

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