They wrote letters and sent petitions to Parliament, but there were not successful, so they started using other methods; they chained themselves to fences, organised attacks on shop and galleries and set fire to letter boxes. For this reason many of them were arrested between 1908 and 1913. While in prison, they considered themselves political prisoners and went on hunger strikes. At the beginning of World War I, they stopped doing this and began to do some jobs that only men had done before. As