ABSTRACT
Workers’ Party); in 1922 it was transformed into the Communist Party of Chile. A tireless agitator, Recabarren worked for several years among the miners of northern Chile, pioneers of the Chilean trade union movement, and was elected chair of the Third Chilean Workers’ Congress in 1919 and again returned to parliament in 1921. Scourge of the Alessandri government, his organizing work continued. None the less, in 1924, a military coup met little resistance from the workers. Trade union membership was declining and Recabarren had to face a series of highly personalized attacks from sections of his own communist party. In circum stances still not fully explained, he shot himself in December 1924.
