Career
He also organized rallies in Cincinnati which protested the Vietnam War and segregation. Bromley was also a pioneer of the modern American tax resistance movement. In 1942 he refused to display a "defense tax stamp" on his car.
He redirected the $7.09 cost of the stamp that would have gone to the war effort and gave it instead to Methodist overseas relief.
He was jailed for 60 days and lost his position as minister. He produced and edited a local newsletter called Peacemaker for many years.
Peacemakers developed a fund for families of people imprisoned for acts of conscience. In the 1970s the Internal Revenue Service tried and failed to seize their home for non-payment of taxes.
In 1977 the War Resisters League gave the Bromleys its annual Peace Award.
