Tag: labor
By executedtoday, Section Diaries
Posted on Mon Nov 19, 2007 at 01:05:37 PM EST
Tags: death penalty, execution, utah, joe hill, labor, activism, iww (all tags)
Posted on Mon Nov 19, 2007 at 01:05:37 PM EST
Tags: death penalty, execution, utah, joe hill, labor, activism, iww (all tags)
On this date in 1915, songwriter, poet and labor activist Joe Hill was shot in Utah for the murder of a local butcher.
Even before his execution, the Swedish immigrant was widely thought to have been railroaded for his IWW affiliation.
Though state authorities had little use for the worldwide clemency bid whose backers included U.S. President Woodrow Wilson -- powerless to intervene officially, since the execution was a state matter -- Hill walked spryly into his martyrdom.
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