THE ORGANISATION OF OPPOSITION – THE NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR CIVIL LIBERTIES AND THE NO-CONSCRIPTION FELLOWSHIP

A distinctive aspect of anti-war activity in Wales was the extent to which those trade unions and trades councils who were concerned by the extension of military conscription to industry combined with avowedly anti-war organisations, such as the Independent Labour Party (ILP) and the No-Conscription Fellowship (NCF). The National Council against Conscription, later re-named the National Council for Civil Liberties (NCCL), included these two elements, and its initial founders were the NCF and the Quakers’ Friends’ Service Committee, formed in November 1915 to lobby Members of Parliament to oppose conscription. In doing so, they also privately campaigned for a conscience