Franklin Rosemont, who besides being a surrealist poet and labor historian was perhaps the country’s leading publisher of literature about the labor movement, has died in Chicago of an apparent stroke. He was 65. As an obituary by Trevor Jensen in the Chicago Tribune details, Rosemont, who was editor in chief of 123-year-old radical publishing house Charles H. Kerr, was the “son of a printers union activist,” and “joined the Industrial Workers of the World, a leftist trade group nicknamed the Wobblies, when he was 7, adopting a faith from which he never wavered.” He was also a prolific writer, writing books such as Joe Hill, the IWW & the Making of a Revolutionary Workingclass Counterculture, and Jacques Vaché and the Roots of Surrealism, and more — as Jensen notes in the Trib: “Capable of ‘the most incredibly vituperative manifestoes,’ he produced leaflets that he passed out at demonstrations or on the steps of museums. One called for a second Chicago Fire, another railed against Claes Oldenburg‘s ‘Batcolumn’ sculpture on West Madison Street.”