Ralph Chaplin
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Ralph Hosea Chaplin was an American writer, artist and labor activist.
Charles H. Kerr 1911 series stock certificate illustrated by Chaplin
Advertisement for IWW stickerettes in "Solidarity" publication
Chaplin's IWW membership booklet
The Industrial Workers of the World, whose members are nicknamed "Wobblies", is an international labor union founded in Chicago, Illinois, United States, in 1905. Its ideology combines general unionis
Ralph Chaplin
…a number of labor oriented poems, one of which became the words for the oft-sung union anthem, "Solidarity Forever". Chaplin then became active in the Industrial Workers of the World (the IWW, or "Wobblies") and became editor of its eastern U.S. publication Solidarity. In 1917 Chaplin and some 100 other Wobblies were rounded up…
Big Bill Haywood and office workers in the IWW General Office, Chicago, summer 1917
A Wobbly membership card, or "red card"
1914 IWW demonstration in New York City
Workers being forcibly marched away from Bisbee into the desert