What opposition was there to conscription in World War 1?
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From the '60s BBC series about WWI I remember they said that there was surprisingly little opposition to the conscription when it was introduced in 1916. The British government expected hundreds of thousands of protesters on the streets, but it turned out to be only a couple of thousand, and the protest didn't last long

In Australia there was resistance from many different sections of society. The Archbishop of Melbourne Daniel Mannix, who famously referred to the war as an imperialist one said that Australians, especially Catholics should not be involved it. Many of his followers sypathised, although this was likely a result of British action in Ireland during the Irish revolution in 1916. Resistance also came from the IWW (international workers of the world) who were a political force in Melbourne at the time. They organized many protests against the war and united workers and unemployed.

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