World War I Abroad Home Workers in Wartime

World War I: Abroad & Home

Workers in Wartime �National War Labor Board worked to avoid work disputes � Supported higher pay, 8 hour days � DID NOT support right to organize unions �Samuel Gompers & AF of L supported war � Double membership to 3 million by end of war �Industrial Workers of the World did not support � Radical, socialist �Blacks move north to find work � Face � Great Migration still several years away

Women’s Suffrage �Movement splits: � National Women’s Party & Alice Paul protests “Kaiser Wilson” �Why fight for freedom abroad and deny it at home � NAWSA & Carrie Chapman Catt supports war �Democracy abroad = Democracy at home �Wilson recognizes women’s role in war and publicly supports suffrage � 1920 – 19 th Amendment

War Economy = Sacrifice � America needed to provide food, ammunition and supplies � Herbert Hoover runs Food Administration � Encourages voluntary rationing � War bonds = Patriot � Government takes over railroads for easier movement of goods

America at War �Institute draft � Army grows to 4 million �America expected Naval support and supply Allies � Allies out of men �Russian withdrawal from war 1918 frees up Germans to move West �America arrives in France participates in series of battles against newly arrived Germans