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Hellraisers Journal – Thursday December 14, 1922
Bars and Shadows, Poems by Ralph Chaplin, I. W. W. Class-War Prisoner
From The Nation of December 13, 1922:
Ralph Chaplin and 58 of his fellow agitators for industrial justice are behind Federal prison bars because they dared to tell the truth about the war while the war was in progress. Chaplin has spent five consecutive Christmases behind the bars…
“Bars and Shadows’ [is] an ideal Christmas reminder, and one of the most effective documents for amnesty that has appeared.
DEMAND THE RELEASE OF
ALL POLITICAL PRISONERSDo Ralph Chaplin a good turn by ordering six copies of “Bars and Shadows” and using them for holiday gifts. The book is privately published. Every penny above the actual cost of manufacture, advertising and distribution goes to Mrs. Chaplin and her son…..
[Emphasis added.]
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SOURCES & IMAGES
Quote Ralph Chaplin, Mother and Boy, Lv Nw Era p4, Mar 14, 1919
https://www.newspapers.com/image/488895791/
The Nation
(New York, New York)
-Dec 13, 1922
https://archive.org/details/sim_nation_1922-12-13_115_2997/page/672/mode/2up
See also:
Bars and Shadows by Ralph Chaplin
London, 1922
https://archive.org/details/barsshadows00chaprich/page/n3
Hellraisers Journal – Tuesday May 23, 1922
Review: Bars and Shadows the Prison Poems of Ralph Chaplin
Tag: Ralph Chaplin
https://weneverforget.org/tag/ralph-chaplin/
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“Mourn Not the Dead” by Ralph Chaplin
Bars and Shadows: The Prison Poems of Ralph Chaplin