elcome home celebrations & public farewells of SFprisonersNo celebration of peace reported in Boyle. Some surrounding towns celebratewhile others refuse. Definition of Social BoundariesInclusionary trends Exclusionary targets/trends Fraternal organizations and womens groups especially active. Clearqualitative evidence of growth. Enemy aliens, conscientious objectors/pacifists, radical labor. Bothorganized and radical labor groups appear to decline. Church groups, womens groups, and fraternal lodges. No evidence of growth ofthese groups. Women related to soldiers given the vote.Enemy aliens, conscientious objectors/pacifists, organized and radical labor.Some naturalized immigrants disenfranchised. Pre-RisingIrish National Volunteers (after Wood-enbridge, 1914)AOH/UIL in decline, Sinn Fein regard-ed as fringe movement Post-RisingSinn Fein, IRB Volunteers Irish party, AOH/UIL, soldiers, police Incidents of Intolerance/Violence Assault on pro-German and assaults on IWW. Threats to run foreigner outof town and to rid town of radical labor sympathizers. Unpatriotic behaviorfrequently "called down" Threats against "pro-Germans" and enemy aliens. Pacifists (Doukhobors)criticized, threatened. Political meetings broken up. Fight between IWW menand "citizens" Fights common between Sinn Feiners and AOH/UIL supporters. Killing of policein Ballaghaderreen. Assaults on soldiers and police. Meetings broken up. In spite of the impressive range of these patriotic activities and links tocivil society, I did not find direct evidence of a larger civic effect thatmight be indicated by increased membership within civic associations orincreased absolute levels of participation. The war, in fact, was heldexplicitly accountable for displacing some civic activities unrelated to thewar. It seems fair to conclude that Rossland did not experience the extentof increased civic participation that was manifest in Park City. On the other ha...
