Editing Slacker (section)

==World Wars==
[[File:In the Service They're Deserters. Don't Be a Production Slacker - NARA - 534393.jpg|thumb|upright|A 1942 US [[War Production Board]] propaganda poster equates slacking in the workplace to desertion.]]

In the United States during [[World War I]], the word "slacker" was commonly used to describe someone who was not participating in the war effort, specifically someone who avoided military service, equivalent to the later term "[[draft dodger]]". Attempts to track down such evaders were called "slacker raids".<ref>New York Times: [https://www.nytimes.com/1918/09/10/archives/take-slackers-into-army-many-at-camp-dix-welcome-induction-into.html "Take Slackers into Army", September 10, 1918], accessed 21 April 2010</ref>

During World War I, U.S. Senator [[Miles Poindexter]] discussed whether inquiries "to separate the cowards and the slackers from those who had not violated the draft" had been managed properly. A ''[[San Francisco Chronicle]]'' headline on 7 September 1918, read, "Slacker Is Doused in Barrel of Paint".<ref>Christopher Cappozolla, ''Uncle Sam Wants You: World War I and the Making of the Modern American Citizen'' (NY: [[Oxford University Press]], 2008), 43-53, quotes 50, 229n</ref><ref>For one of many uses of the word during the trial of [[Sacco and Vanzetti]], see G. Louis Joughin and Edmund M. Morgan, ''[[The Legacy of Sacco and Vanzetti]]'' (NY: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1948), 119</ref>

The term was also used during the [[World War II]] period in the United States. In 1940, ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' quoted the [[U.S. Army]] on managing [[conscription in the United States|the military draft]] efficiently: "War is not going to wait while every slacker resorts to endless appeals."<ref>''TIME'': [https://web.archive.org/web/20121107040911/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,801969-3,00.html "The Draft: How it Works", September 23, 1940], accessed 13 April 2011. See also: ''New York Times'': [https://www.nytimes.com/1943/09/29/archives/wheeler-assails-bureau-slackers-demands-they-and-dodgers-in.html "Wheeler Assails Bureau 'Slackers'", September 29, 1943], accessed 21 April 2010; ''New York Times'': [https://www.nytimes.com/1943/08/14/archives/nazis-round-up-slackers-facing-british-8th-army.html "Nazis Round Up Slackers Facing British 8th Army", August 14, 1943], accessed 21 April 2010</ref>