"The Wobbly poet and newspaperman Ralph Chaplin (author of “Solidarity Forever”) recalled being introduced to Anarchist ideas — Proudhon, Bakunin, Kropotkin, Most, etc — by an “FAS correspondent” on his way to Detroit via the box car."
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Shelby Shapiro Freie Arbeter Shtime: The End of an Era (1978)
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Ralph Chaplin
1887 – 1961
Ralph Hosea Chaplin (1887 — 1961) was an American illustrator, writer and labor organizer. He was a member of the Industrial Workers of the World.
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