You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones
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Thursday January 14, 1904
Denver, Colorado - Special Convention of C. F. of L. Supports Strikes of Miners' Unions
At the meeting of the of the Special Convention yesterday, Charles Moyer, President of the Western Federation of Miners, brought forward resolutions condemning the military despotism now in effect in the strike zones and supporting the strikes of both miners' unions, his own, as well as the United Mine Workers of America. The following are a few of the many resolutions which were adopted by the majority with two dissenting votes:
Resolved, That we demand the immediate withdrawal of the troops, so that law and order may again prevail in Teller and San Miguel counties.
Resolved, That when the reign of military anarchy is at an end in this state, we urge the membership of organized labor throughout Colorado to come to the aid of the martyrs of "bull-pen" imprisonment, so that the wrongs and outrages from which thy have suffered may be righted in the courts.
Resolved, That we commend and admire the gallant and unflinching battle of the Western Federation of Miners and the United Mine Workers of America, who have bared their breast to corporate power, and who are now forcing greed to hoist the white flag.
Resolved, That we call upon the membership of organized labor in every city, town and hamlet, and every liberty loving citizen of the state, to march to the polls in November, 1904, and bury the present administration so deep beneath an avalanche of ballots that a million blasts from Gabriel's trumpet will not be able to awaken it from Political oblivion.
SOURCE
The Cripple Creek Strike
-by Emma F Langdon
(Part I, 1st pub 1904)
NY, 1969
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Wednesday January 14, 1914
Salt Lake City, Utah - Joe Hill Shot, Arrested, and Held on Suspicion of Murder
Joe Hill
The singer, songwriter, Joe Hill is in jail in Salt Lake City, under suspicion of murder. Hill is famous for his many songs which have been featured in the "Little Red Songbooks" published by the Industrial Workers of the World. The Fifth Edition (1913) featured ten new songs by Joe Hill, including the popular songs, "Mr Block" and "There Is Power in a Union."
The Salt Lake Tribune carried this story on its front page today:
WOUNDED MAN HELD AS SLAYER OF GROCER
Joseph Hillstrom, a Musician, Suffering From Bullet Wound in Left Lung, Arrested in Murray on Charge of Murdering J. G. Morrison and Son Last Saturday; Physicians Who Dressed Injury Notify Officers.
SULLENLY REFUSES TO SAY ANYTHING
Tells Doctors That He Was Shot by Friend In a Quarrel Over a Salt Lake Girl; Police Jubilant Over Arrest; Strong Chain of Circumstantial Evidence Is Established.
At an early hour this morning Sergeant Ben Siegfus expressed The belief that Joseph Hill, arrested for the murder of the two Morrisons, is Frank Z. Wilson, a former inmate of the state prison. The description of Hill corresponds closely with that of Wilson. The police have been searching for Wilson ever since the murders.
Suffering from a wound believed to have been inflicted by John Arling Morrison, 17 years old, just before the boy fell dead, a victim of a murderer’s bullet. Joseph Hill, a musician, was brought to the county jail at 2 o’clock, charged with the murder of John G. Morrison and John A. Morrison, his son, in their grocery store in Salt [Lake City] last Saturday night.
Hill was arrested at 11:30 o’clock last night at the home of a family named Eselius on West Seventeenth South street, in Murray, by Marshal Fred Peters and Deputy Marshals Edwin Larson and Joseph Van Newland. They were told of his presence at this home by Drs. F. M. McHugh and A. A. Bird, who had been called to the Eselius home to treat the wounded man. Hill had been lying suffering from his wound at the Eselius home since last Saturday night.
Walked to Murray.
The wounded man walked into the residence of Dr. F. M. McHugh, 4002 South State street, in the outskirts of Murray, at 11:30 o’clock Saturday night. He was suffering from a wound to the left side. A bullet had entered the side pierced the left lung and emerged through the back. The man had apparently lost a great deal of blood and was in a weakened condition. He appeared to the doctor to have been walking a long distance.
The doctor took the man into his house and dressed the wound. Hill told the doctor that he had quarreled with a friend in Murray over a woman and that in the quarrel the friend shot him.
Later in the night Dr. McHugh saw Dr. A. A. Bird, also of Murray, driving by on State street, and called him in. At Hill’s request Dr. Bird drove the man to the Eselius home. Hill had previously known the Eselius family and they apparently believed Hill’s story of the shooting and gave him shelter. At the hour that Hill was treated by Dr. McHugh, the doctor had not heard of the shooting. His suspicions were aroused later on hearing of the account of the murders in Salt Lake, and he then notified the Murray officers.
Maintained Silence.
Since his arrest Hill has maintained a sullen silence. When the officers entered the Eselius home, Hill made a feint as if to draw a gun and was quickly covered by the arresting officers. Hill then made no resistance. He has obeyed the commands of the officers quietly, but has refused to answer any questions.
After he had been brought to the county jail early this morning Hill was examined by Dr. W. N. Pugh, who said that while the wound was a serious one, there was a strong probability that he would recover from it. He said that his silence and apparently dazed condition might have been at least partially induced by opiates given him by the doctors to ease his pain.
The police are elated over the capture of Hill, whom they feel certain is one of the men wanted for the murder of the Morrisons. As soon as Hill’s condition warrants, an effort will be made by the officers to induce him to make a confession and give the name of the accomplice.
Linked about the wounded sufferer at the city jail hospital is already woven a strong chain of circumstantial evidence, even though Merlin Morrison, the only eyewitness to the tragedy, may be unable to make a positive identification of the man.
In a general way Hill’s description corresponds to that of one of the two scarlet-masked men who dashed into the Morrison store on Saturday night and shot to death the proprietor of the store and his brave son. Both Morrison and his son were killed with bullets fired from a .38-calliber automatic pistol.
From the blood-stained coat of Hill at midnight that same night Dr. McHugh took a .38-caliber automatic pistol...
SOURCES
The Big Red Songbook
-ed by David Roediger, Franklin Rosemont, and Salvatore Salerno
Charles H Kerr, 2007
Salt Lake Tribune
(Salt Lake City, Utah)
-of Jan 14, 1914
Read full article here:
http://www.joehill.org/...
Photo: Joe Hill
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Tuesday January 14, 2014
Featured song by Joe Hill:
Workers of the World Awaken
Workers of the world, awaken!
Break your chains. demand your rights.
All the wealth you make is taken
By exploiting parasites.
Shall you kneel in deep submission
From your cradles to your graves?
ls the height of your ambition
To be good and willing slaves?
CHORUS:
Arise, ye prisoners of starvation!
Fight for your own emancipation;
Arise, ye slaves of every nation.
In One Union grand.
Our little ones for bread are crying,
And millions are from hunger dying;
The end the means is justifying,
'Tis the final stand.
If the workers take a notion,
They can stop all speeding trains;
Every ship upon the ocean
They can tie with mighty chains.
Every wheel in the creation,
Every mine and every mill,
Fleets and armies of the nation,
Will at their command stand still.
Join the union, fellow workers,
Men and women, side by side;
We will crush the greedy shirkers
Like a sweeping, surging tide;
For united we are standing,
But divided we will fall;
Let this be our understanding --
"All for one and one for all.''
Workers of the world, awaken!
Rise in all your splendid might;
Take the wealth that you are making,
It belongs to you by right.
No one will for bread be crying,
We'll have freedom, love and health.
When the grand red flag is flying
In the Workers' Commonwealth.
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Joe Hill-Billy Bragg
Now the strikes were bloody and the strikes were black,
as hard as they were long.
In the dark of night, Joe would stay awake and write;
In the morning he would raise them with a song,
In the morning he would raise them with a song.
And he wrote his words to the tunes of the day
To be passed along the union vine.
And the strikes were led and the songs were spread,
And Joe Hill was always on the line,
Yes, Joe Hill was always on the line.
-Phill Ochs
Dear Fellow Workers,
Today my very dear friend takes her Citizenship Exam. She will most like have completed it by the time Hellraisers publishes. Nevertheless, please keep her in your thots, and if you are so inclined to do so, she would also appreciate your prayers. As Joe Biden would say, this is a huge bfd for her. Leaving now to take give her ride. (9:39 am central time)
Thank you,
JayRaye
2:07 PM PT: She passed!!!!