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Women’s Peace Party (WPP) called on neutral countries to "help broker a peaceful solution". The peace conference was filled with "more than 1,100 delegates from 150 countries", and resulted in draft resolutions for peace. These resolutions, however, were ignored by the warring countries.

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Soldiers Break Up Anti-War Meeting in Seattle - Seattle Daily Call - July 31, 1917 (newspaper edition)

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Soldiers Break Up Anti-War Meeting in Seattle - Seattle Daily Call - July 31, 1917 (newspaper edition)

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The headline states "Soldiers Break Up Anti-War Meeting in Seattle". This is a show of military being used to stop and discourage anti-war movements.

The cartoon drawing in the center of the picture shows an "American Autocrat" muffling the "Labor Press" with a gag named "Suppression". "Radical Press" is also gagged in the background. This caption under the cartoon states "In order to bring democracy abroad, must we submit to tyrants at home". As the Seattle Daily Call was an anti-war paper, this cartoon gave a. more radical perspective on how America censored anti-war sentiments in the press during that time.

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Ceballos, Rutger. “Reds, Labor, and the Great War: Antiwar Activism in the Pacific Northwest.” World War I Antiwar Movement, 2014, depts.washington.edu/antiwar/WW1_reds.shtml.

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“Only in Britain was there internal disagreement about entering the conflict... In Britain, the Liberal Party that had been in power since 1905 was predominately anti-war, as was the opposition Labour Party, and the pressure to remain neutral in what was seen as primarily an Austro-Hungarian dispute was widespread.”

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“Only in Britain was there internal disagreement about entering the conflict... In Britain, the Liberal Party that had been in power since 1905 was predominately anti-war, as was the opposition Labour Party, and the pressure to remain neutral in what was seen as primarily an Austro-Hungarian dispute was widespread.”

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Garth S. Jowett, historian

Unlike in America, Britain had a larger pushback on the war, and therefore , they were more hesitant to join.

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Protesters, like the IWW, were subject to violence for their anti-war movements. After America had officially joined the war in 1917, the IWW and its members were regularly confronted with "government crackdowns, raids and arrests". Mobs were also frequent in "vigilante justice", and in 1917, the IWW executive member Frank Little was lynched in Butte, Montana.

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Llewellyn, Jennifer, and Steve Thompson. “Opposition to the War.” Opposition to World War I, Alpha History, 7 Sept. 2017, alphahistory.com/worldwar1/opposition-to-the-war/#Anti-war_groups.

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Cover of Anti-War Song - "I Didn't Raise My Boy To Be A Soldier"

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Cover of Anti-War Song - "I Didn't Raise My Boy To Be A Soldier"

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A famous 1915 song, ""I Didn't Raise My Boy To Be A Soldier", was produced to share anti-war sentiments. It was heavily opposed by Theodore Roosevelt, former president and pro-war advocate, who stated that any woman who opposed war belonged "in China – or a harem”.

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Industrial Workers of the World (IWW or ‘Wobblies’)

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Industrial Workers of the World (IWW or ‘Wobblies’)

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The IWW was an American-based anti-war socialist group.

IWW was formed in America in 1906. By 1914, it had more than 10,000 members.
The IWW protested, stating that WWI was an "imperialist war", fought to "benefit land-hungry governments and profit-hungry industrialists".

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The National Woman's Party was founded during the women's suffrage movement. The women in this group fought against the war for changes in female power, and because their sons were being drafted.

“Twenty million American Women are denied the right to vote. President Wilson is the chief opponent of their national enfranchisement.”

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The main anti-war political organization in Britain, a section of the larger radical Labor Party. The Labor Party was known to have forty members in the Parliament, and the Independent Labor Party had at least six. The Independent Labour Party fought against the war as it went against their philosophy of pacifism.

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Americans' Strife for Peace During and After WW1

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Americans' Strife for Peace During and After WW1

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Every war was considered a tragedy to many of the anti-militarists in the country, a failure to resolve differences of ideology.  During and After the Great War (WWI) and the large amount of lives that were taken as a result, the anti-militarists did everything in their power to make sure nothing of the sort were to ever happen again.

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“'War against War': Americans for Peace in World War I.” National Constitution Center – Constitutioncenter.org, constitutioncenter.org/blog/war-against-war-americans-for-peace-in-world-war-i.

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“National Woman's Party Protests During World War I (U.S. National Park Service).” National Parks Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, 15 May 2019, www.nps.gov/articles/national-womans-party-protests-world-war-i.htm.

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The movement had started as small and peaceful demonstrations, however, driven by increasingly dire economic conditions and angered by wartime conscription, the American anti-war movement of 1917 – 1918 rose to near-revolution-like levels before being suppressed by aggressive government repression.

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Unemployment, difficult working conditions, low wages, tensions between employers and employees; all threatened to destabilize the delicate political balance of the city of Seattle, one of the first hotspots for anti-war protests, just prior to the war.

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“Reds, Labor, and the Great War: Antiwar Activism in the Pacific Northwest.” World War I Antiwar Movement, depts.washington.edu/antiwar/WW1_reds.shtml.

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U.S. isolationists have held that America could and should use its wide-ranging influence and economic strength to encourage the ideals of freedom and democracy in other nations by means of negotiation rather than warfare before the Great War, however, within the United States itself, as industrialized mega-cities grew, small-town rural America — long the source of isolationist feelings shrank. After the war, isolationism made its way back into the system of America, the anti- militarists protesting it as a way to avoid further conflict, in which they would inevitably be wrong.

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Longley, Robert. “The Evolution of Isolationism in America.” ThoughtCo, ThoughtCo, 19 June 2019, www.thoughtco.com/the-evolution-of-american-isolationism-4123832.