You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones
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Sunday June 13, 1915
Salt Lake City, Utah - Joe Hill Awaits Decision of Utah Supreme Court
From the
The Evening Kansan-Republican of May 28, 1915:
Under Sentence to be Shot.
Salt Lake City, Utah, May 28.-The appeal in the case of Joseph Hillstrom who is under sentence to be executed by shooting, came up for hearing in the state supreme court today. Hillstrom was convicted and sentenced to death for the alleged murder of J. G. Morrison and J. Arlin Morrison [this is incorrect, Joe was never tried nor convicted for the murder of J. Arlin Morrison]. The double killing occurred during a hold-up of a grocery store of which the victims were the proprietors.
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Representing Joe Hill before the Utah Supreme Court was Judge Orrin N. Hilton who expressed optimism that the conviction and death sentence of his client would be overturned.
The life of Fellow Worker Joe Hill now hangs in the balance of Utah Justice.
From the Chicago Day Book of May 28, 1915:
...Mass meeting to be held at I. W. W. headquarters 644 W. 12th, Saturday evening to protest against execution of Joe Hill, Salt Lake City, sentenced to be shot...
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SOURCES
The Evening Kansan-Republican
(Newton, Kansas)
-May 28, 1915
http://www.newspapers.com/...
The Day Book
(Chicago, Illinois)
-May 28, 1915
http://www.newspapers.com/...
IMAGES
Orrin N Hilton
http://darrow.law.umn.edu/...
Joe Hill
http://www.freedomarchives.org/...
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Letters From Joe Hill to Sam Murray
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S. L. Cy,
June 6, 1915.
Sam Murray
Friend and Fellow Worker:
Your welcome letter received, and am glad to note that you are still sticking to your "little cabin in the hills." I would like to get a little of that close to nature stuff myself for a couple of months in order to regain a little vitality, and a little flesh on my rotting bones. My case was argued on the 28th of May, and according to Judge Hilton, the results were satisfactory. He says he is sure of securing a reversal, and if so there hardly will be another trial, for the simple reason that there won't be anything to try, if I can get a lawyer that will defend me.
With best wishes to all the rebels, Yours for the OBU,
Joe Hill.
P. S. I've just found out that the Superior Court judges are getting ready to go on their vacation until next fall, so I guess there won't be anything decided on my case for some time. But "everything comes to him who waits" they say, and that's the only consolation I got now.--Joe.
Brev Till Sam Murray - Joe Hill - Mats Paulson
Salt Lake City,
Feb. 13, 1915.
Sam Murray
Friend and Fellow worker;
Should have answered your letter before, but have been busy working on a song named "The Rebel Girl" (Words and Music), which I hope will help line up the women workers in the OBU, and I hope you will excuse me.
I see you made a big thing out that Tipperary song [$50 had been raised in San Francisco selling song cards at 5 cents each]. In fact, a whole lot more than I ever expected, I don't suppose that it would sell very well outside of Frisco, though by the way I got a letter from Swasey in NY and he told me that "Casey Jones" made quite a hit in London and "Casey Jones," he was an Angelino you know, and I never expected that he would leave Los Angeles at all.
The other day we got ten bucks from a company of soldiers stationed on the Mexican line. How is that old top? Maybe they are remembering some of the cigars in glass bottles that they smoked at the expense of the "Tierra e Libertad" bunch.
Don't know much about my case. The Sup. Court will "sit on" it sometime in the sweet bye and bye and that's all I know about it.
Give my best to the bunch. -- Joe Hill
SOURCE
The Letters of Joe Hill
-ed by Philip S Foner
Oak Publications, 1965
https://books.google.com/...
IMAGE
Joe Hill
http://en.wikipedia.org/...
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Soppkö i Reinfeldts Sverige 2012
Bill Brown was just a working man like others of his kind.
He lost his job and tramped the streets when work was hard to find.
The landlord put him on the stem, the bankers kept his dough,
And Bill heard everybody sing, no matter where he'd go:
CHORUS:
It's a long way down to the soupline,
It's a long way to go.
It's a long way down to the soupline,
And the soup is thin I know.
Good bye, good old pork chops,
Farewell, beefsteak rare;
It's a long way down to the soupline,
But my soup is there.
So Bill and sixteen million men responded to the call
To force the hours of labor down and thus make jobs for all.
They picketed the industries and won the four-hour day
And organized a General Strike so men don't have to say:
The workers own the factories now, where jobs were once destroyed
By big machines that filled the world with hungry unemployed.
They all own homes, they're living well, they're happy, free and strong,
But millionaires wear overalls and sing this little song:
-Joe Hill
Link to explanation of video, translated from Swedish into English
http://translate.google.com/...
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