Episode 10: The No-Conscription League

“Guard at Registration Booth,” registration day for the World War I draft, NYC, June 5, 1917
(Source: Library of Congress)

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Emma Goldman and Ben Reitman are arrested all over the country for telling people about birth control, while Alexander Berkman stands up for two men framed for a bombing in San Francisco. The U.S. government decides to crush all resistance to the World War I draft, especially by Goldman and Berkman.
With guests Linda Gordon, Candace Falk, Clare Hemmings, and Kenyon Zimmer

Mother Earth, April, 1916, including "The Social Aspects of Birth Control"

Source: Google Books

"Scene after explosion" at the Preparedness Day parade, San Francisco, July 1916

Source: Wikimedia Commons

Pieces of the Preparedness Day bomb

Source: Wikimedia Commons

Tom Mooney and his wife Rena in court

Source: Wikimedia Commons

No-Conscription League fund-raising letter

Source: The Emma Goldman Papers

"Guard at registration booth," Registration Day, June 5, 1917

Source: Library of Congress

Three men with their new draft registration cards, June 5, 1917

Source: Library of Congress