Gatherings
Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman held a mass no conscription league meeting on June 4, 1917. In addition to Goldman and Berkman, speakers included Louis Baury, "Mother" Yusher, Stella Comyn Ballantine, Leonard D. Abbott, Katia Siebel, and Rose Yuster. After the police asked to see many participants selective service enrollment card. Many people did not have these cards and were detained and taken to jail. There was much fear due to the governmental restrictions such as the Espionage Act of 1917.
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