The working class owes all honor and respect to the first men who planted the standard of labor solidarity on the hostile frontier of unorganized industry.

From 1949 until his death he was curator of manuscripts for the Washington State Historical Society. He wrote Bars And Shadows: The Prison Poems while serving four years of a 20-year sentence. At the age of seven he saw a worker shot dead during the Pullman strike in Chicago Illinois.

Ralph Hosea Chaplin (1887—1961) was an American writer artist and labor activist. At the age of seven he saw a worker shot dead during the Pullman strike in Chicago Illinois.