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Juan Onofre Chamorro

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and Chamorro was imprisoned for almost a year while its members were prosecuted. In prison, Chamorro formed a mutual aid organisation, which established a prison library and organised an International Workers Day demonstration, drawing the attention of the left-wing press. Even after he was released
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Chamorro kept a low profile after his release from prison, staying out of trade union organising and debates between anarcho-syndicalists and industrial unionists. He only returned to trade union organising in 1925, when he participated in a series of maritime workers' conventions. During the
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was declared. Chamorro was imprisoned again and the right-wing press orchestrated a smear campaign against him, prompting Chamorro to carry revolvers with him for self-defense. In order to avoid being recognised by police, Chamorro intentionally distorted his face when appearing in public.
410: 278:, Chamorro was kept under constant surveillance by the state, which brought him into frequent conflict with the police. In 1916, Chamorro called a congress of maritime workers' unions in Valparaiso, where a general strike to implement the 267:. In October 1913, the FORCH led a general strike; Chamorro was preemptively arrested, but this only strengthened the resolve of striking workers. During this period, Chamorro also formed links with the 462: 528: 232:. After he was released from prison, state repression prevented him from returning to work as a mechanic or finding another job in the docks, forcing him to work as a 311:, Chamorro went into hiding. By the 1930s, he was only attending syndicalist rallies infrequently. Juan Chamorro died in a hospital in Valparaiso, on 23 June 1941. 286:
In the wake of the strike's suppression, Chamorro started to think that a new form of trade union organisation was necessary. Influenced by the programme of
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Savala, Joshua (2019). "Ports of Transnational Labor Organizing: Anarchism along the Peruvian-Chilean Littoral, 1916–1928".
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from prison in February 1921, he continued to visit other prisoners and maintained contact with the mutual aid group.
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leader. The son of a socialist politician and journalist, Chamorro led the dockworkers' union in
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Like his father, Chamorro worked as an activist for the PD, within which he
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In 1911, the dockworkers' union resumed its activities, establishing a
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Centro de Documentación e Investigación de la Cultura de Izquierdas
162:. His father, Juan de Dios Chamorro Hernández, was a member of the 128: 204:. He contributed to a series of left-wing newspapers, including 387:
The Cry of the Renegade: Politics and Poetry in Interwar Chile
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Diccionario biográfico de las izquierdas latinoamericanas
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Portrait photograph of Juan Chamorro
Talcahuano
Biobío
Chile
Valparaíso
Chile
Chilean
trade union
Valparaiso
Chilean Regional Workers' Federation
Chilean Industrial Workers of the World
Talcahuano
Chile
Democrat Party
Valparaiso
mechanic
Escuela de Artes y Oficios (Chile)
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educated himself
politics
sociology
dockworkers
general strike
anarchism
butcher
social centre
library
night school
International Workers' Day
Chilean Regional Workers' Federation

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