🧡 Pacifism And Conscientious Objection

Question 1

Estimated number of Scottish conscripts

Answer 1

~270 000

Question 2

What was established to oversee anti-conscription campaigning in Dundee

Answer 2

Dundee Joint Committee Against Conscription

Question 3

When did the ILP organise a large anti war demonstration in Glasgow?

Answer 3

9th August 1914

Question 4

How many people were at the anti war demonstration in Glasgow in 9th August 1914?

Answer 4

5000+

Question 5

How many men faced military tribunals in Scotland?

Answer 5

Total of 1400 men

Question 6

How many conscientious objectors were in Scottish prisons in September 1916?

Answer 6

121, mostly ILP members

Question 7

what political group led the anti-war movement and did they lose support?

Answer 7

the ILP, yes as they were critised for being unpatriotic

Question 8

when were single men aged 19 to 40 conscripted?

Answer 8

january 1916

Question 9

when were married men aged 50 conscripted?

Answer 9

may 1916

Question 10

what % of conscientious objectors were thought to be ILP members

Answer 10

70%

Question 11

for an article criticising the war, who went to prison? what was the name journal? why? when?

Answer 11

In 1916, the Clyde Workers’ Committee journal, The Worker, was prosecuted under the Defence of the Realm Act 1914.

Willie Gallacher, the chairman of the Clyde Worker’s Committee was sent to prison for 6 months, and the editor, John Muir for one year