Ralph Chaplin
Ralph Hosea Chaplin | |
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Born | 1887 |
Died | 1961 |
Occupation(s) | Labor activist, songwriter, illustrator |
Ralph Hosea Chaplin (1887–1961) was an American writer, artist and labor activist.
Background
Chaplin was born in 1887.[citation needed] At the age of seven, he saw a worker shot dead during the Pullman Strike in Chicago, Illinois. He had moved with his family from Ames, Kansas to Chicago in 1893.
Career
During a time in Mexico he was influenced by hearing of the execution squads established by Porfirio Díaz,[citation needed] and became a supporter of Emiliano Zapata.[1]
On his return, he began work in various union positions, most of which were poorly paid. Some of Chaplin's early artwork was done for the International Socialist Review and other Charles H. Kerr publications.
For two years Chaplin worked in the strike committee with
Chaplin then became active in the
Although he continued to work for labor rights after his release from prison, Chaplin was very disillusioned by the aftermath of the Russian Revolution and the evolution of the Soviet state and international communism, particularly its involvement in American politics and unions in 1920–1948, as he details in his autobiography, Wobbly.[page needed]
Chaplin maintained his involvement with the IWW, serving in Chicago as editor of its newspaper, the Industrial Worker, from 1932 to 1936. Chaplin left the IWW in 1936.[1]
Eventually Chaplin settled in Tacoma, Washington, where he edited the American Federation of Labor's local labor publication. He converted to Roman Catholicism and published his autobiography Wobbly.[1] From 1949 until his death, he was curator of manuscripts for the Washington State Historical Society.
Death and legacy
Chaplin died in 1961.[1]
According to the IWW, Chaplin likely designed the now widely used
Works
There are ten entries for Chaplin's works in the Library of Congress online catalog.
- Illustrations
- Out of the Dump (1909)[4]
- Poetry
- When the Leaves Come Out and Other Rebel Verses (1917)[5]
- Bars and Shadows: The Prison Poems (1922)[6]
- Bars and Shadows: The Prison Poems (1923)[7]
- Nonfiction
- The Centralia Conspiracy (1920)[8]
- American Labor's Case Against Communism: How the Operations of Stalin's Red Quislings Look from Inside the Labor Movement (1947)[11]
- Wobbly: The Rough-and-Tumble Story of an American Radical (1948)[12]
- Wobbly: The Rough-and-Tumble Story of an American Radical (1972)[13]
- Articles
- "Confessions of a Radical," two-part article in Empire Magazine of the Denver Post (February 17, 1957, pp. 12–13, and February 24, 1957, pp. 10–11)
- "Why I Wrote Solidarity Forever," American West, vol. 5, no. 1 (January 1968), 18–27, 73
See also
References
- ^ a b c d "Ralph Chaplin". Spartacus Educational. Retrieved 2023-09-14.
- ^ "The Black Cat (Sabo-Tabby) | Industrial Workers of the World".
- LCCN 2021062860. Retrieved 25 February 2023.
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Mary March (1909). "illustrations by R. H. Chaplin". Out of the Dump. Charles H. Kerr. LCCN 08037707. Retrieved 25 February 2023.
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Ralph Chaplin (1917). When the Leaves Come Out and Other Rebel Verses. Charles H. Kerr. LCCN 17005831. Retrieved 25 February 2023.
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Ralph Chaplin (1922). "introduction by LCCN 17005831. Retrieved 25 February 2023.
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Ralph Chaplin (1923). "introduction by LCCN 82464851. Retrieved 25 February 2023.
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Ralph Chaplin (1920). The Centralia Conspiracy. Geo. Williams. LCCN 23007468. Retrieved 25 February 2023.
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Ralph Chaplin (1924). The Centralia Conspiracy: The Truth About the Armistice Tragedy. General Defense Committee. LCCN 24012135. Retrieved 25 February 2023.
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Ralph Chaplin; Ben Hur Lampman (1971). Centralia Case: Three Views of the Armistice Day Tragedy at Centralia, Washington, November 11, 1919. Da Capo Press. LCCN 77160845. Retrieved 25 February 2023.
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Ralph Chaplin (1947). American Labor's Case Against Communism: How the Operations of Stalin's Red Quislings Look from Inside the Labor Movement. Educator Publishing Co. LCCN 47025519. Retrieved 25 February 2023.
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Ralph Chaplin (1948). Wobbly: The Rough-and-Tumble Story of an American Radical. University of Chicago Press. LCCN 48008467. Retrieved 25 February 2023.
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Ralph Chaplin (1972). Wobbly: The Rough-and-Tumble Story of an American Radical. Civil liberties in American history. Da Capo Press. LCCN 70166089. Retrieved 25 February 2023.
External links
- Media related to Ralph Chaplin at Wikimedia Commons
- Quotations related to Ralph Chaplin at Wikiquote
- Works by or about Ralph Chaplin at Wikisource
- Works by Ralph Chaplin at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Ralph Chaplin at Internet Archive
- Works by Ralph Chaplin at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- CHAPLIN, Ralph Hosea (1887-1961), papers, Special Collections, Washington State Historical Society
- Grave of Ralph Chaplin Calvary Cemetery, Tacoma, Washington