Ah, slaves, you fight your masters’ battles well-
The reek of rotting carnage fills the air!
Your swollen bodies yield their noisome smell,
Sweet incense to the ghouls who sent your there…
-Ralph Chaplin
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Hellraisers Journal, Monday July 29, 1918
Chicago, Illinois – Ralph Chaplin on the War and the Draft
From The Bisbee Daily Review of July 20, 1918:
CHAPIN ADMITS HE PERSONALLY OPPOSED WAR
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I. W. W. Defendant Assumes Full Responsibility
for Editorial Advice to Wobblies of Nation
—–(By Review Leased Wire)
CHICAGO, July 19.-Ralph R [H]. Chaplin editor of Solidarity, one of the chief organs of the I. W. W. a defendant, was on the stand today in the trial of the 101 I. W. W.
Chaplin, in his direct testimony, had dwelt on the evil of the exploitation of labor and told of the vast amount of money wrested from the toilers by such means.
The attention of Chaplin was called to an editorial printed in Solidarity defining the attitude of the I. W. W. toward the war and the draft. It advised any member drafted to claim exemption as an I. W. W., and to write on his card: “The I. W. W. is opposed to war.”
Chaplin assumed full responsibility for this article.
“The Red Feast” by Ralph Chaplin:
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SOURCE
The Bisbee Daily Review
(Bisbee, Arizona)
-July 20, 1918
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84024827/1918-07-20/ed-1/seq-1/
IMAGE
Ralph Chaplin, When Leaves Come Out, Red Feast, 1917
https://archive.org/stream/whenleavescomeou00chapiala#page/8/mode/2up
From:
When the Leaves Come Out
and Other Rebel Verses
-by Ralph Chaplin
Cleveland, 1917
https://archive.org/stream/whenleavescomeou00chap#page/n5
See also:
Hellraisers Journal, Sunday July 28, 1918
Chicago, Illinois – Testimony of Ralph Chaplin
Chicago IWW Trial: Ralph Chaplin on West Virginia and His Undying Hate for Industrial Tyranny
Tag: Ralph Chaplin
https://weneverforget.org/tag/ralph-chaplin/
Ralph Hosea Chaplin (1887–1961)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Chaplin
For more on Chaplin’s statement regarding the IWW and the War,
(scroll down to “Last Meeting of Ralph Chaplin and Frank Little”):
Hellraisers Journal, Wednesday July 25, 1917
Butte, Montana – “Agitators” Support Striking Miners
Frank Little & “Agitators” of Butte “Against Everything” Proclaims Company Newspaper
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