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Hellraisers Journal – Thursday July 17, 1919
Chicago, Illinois – Arrested for Speech Critical of Government
-Dissident to be “turned over to the government.”
From The Chicago Sunday Tribune of July 13, 1919:
Find Red Flag Poem on
Peace Treaty Assailer
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Frank Michalucine, of 14 West Superior street, was arrested in a poolroom at North Clark and West Huron streets yesterday after he is said to have made derogatory remarks about the government and the treaty which is now before congress for ratification.
When searched at the detective bureau a copy of a poem called “The Red Flag” and said to have been written by Ralph Chaplin an inmate of the Leavenworth penitentiary, was found in his pocket.
Michalucine was arrested some time ago by federal agents on the same charge but was released. He will be turned over to the government tomorrow.
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[Photograph and emphasis added.]
“The Red Flag” by Ralph Chaplin???
FW Chaplin is the author of “Red Feast,” an anti-war poem found to be seditious by President Wilson’s Department of Justice. He is also the author of “Prison Song, (Tune: The Red Flag).” We know of no poem or song written by Fellow Worker Ralph Chaplin entitled “The Red Flag.” That song was, of course, famously written by Jim Connell and published as the first song of the first edition of “I. W. W. Songs to Fan the Flames of Discontent.”
“The Red Feast” by Ralph Chaplin
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SOURCES
Quote Ralph Chaplin, Red Feast, Montreal 1914, Leaves 1917
https://archive.org/stream/whenleavescomeou00chapiala#page/8/mode/2up
The Chicago Sunday Tribune
(Chicago, Illinois)
-July 13, 1919
https://www.newspapers.com/image/354994164/
When the Leaves Come Out
-by Ralph Chaplin
Cleveland, 1917
(Red Feast page 8)
https://archive.org/stream/whenleavescomeou00chap#page/n5/mode/2up
Big Red Songbook: 250+ IWW Songs!
-ed by Archie Green, David Roediger,
Franklin Rosemont, Salvatore Salerno
PM Press, Feb 19, 2016
(search: (“1. The Red Flag”)
https://books.google.com/books?id=QaXECwAAQBAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s
IMAGES
WWIR IWW Remember the Boys in Jail, OH Sc p3, Aug 21, 1918
https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/ohio-socialist/030-aug-21-1918.pdf
Ralph Chaplin, When Leaves Come Out, Red Feast, 1917
https://archive.org/stream/whenleavescomeou00chap#page/8/mode/2up
See also:
Tag: Ralph Chaplin
https://weneverforget.org/tag/ralph-chaplin/
The International Socialist Review, Volume 15
(Chicago, Illinois)
-July 1914-June 1915
http://books.google.com/books?id=7Ko9AAAAYAAJ
ISR – Oct 1914
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=7Ko9AAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&pg=GBS.PA195
“The Red Feast” by A Paint Creek Miner
-with drawing by John Sloan
(view as 2 up)
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=7Ko9AAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&pg=GBS.PA196
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Prison Song by Ralph Chaplin
-Tune: The Red Flag
IWW Songs, 14th, Gen Def Ed, LRSB, Prison Song, April 1918
The Red Flag, Lyrics by Jim Connell
-the first song of the first edition of the
Little Red Songbook.