Hellraisers Journal: From The Nation: Bars and Shadows, Poems by Ralph Chaplin, One of 58 Remaining Class-War Prisoners

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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:

Ad Bars n Shadows by Ralph Chaplin, Ntn p673, Dec 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 PRISONERS

Do 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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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