According to the subpoena, the leaflet contained material damaging to the recruitment and discipline of His Majesty's Forces.
Although the Fellowship paid the fines, most members of the national committee, including Chamberlain, chose to serve their sentences in prison.
This demonstrated the government's determination to limit or eliminate organized anti-conscription and anti-war agitation through the provisions of DORA.
Chamberlain was a journalist for the official newspaper of the Labor Party and the Trade Union Congress, Daily Citizen.
[1] In 1921, he presided over the meeting in London (with Fenner Brockway and others)[1] which established the No More War Movement,[2][3] and became its Chairman.