January 12, 1916 - President Woodrow Wilson begins an effort to reduce the amount of unrest by signing the Espionage Act of 1916 which made it a federal offense to 'interfere in military affairs and to encourage or support insubordination'. January 15, 1916- Hundreds of peace protesters and strikers are arrested and jailed without trial. One of which is Eugene V. Debs, who began to call for all men and women to end the war and start to build a new world based on Communist ideals of the International worker.
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