workingclasshistory:On this day, 19 November 1915, Joe Hill, Swedish-American Industrial Workers of
workingclasshistory:On this day, 19 November 1915, Joe Hill, Swedish-American Industrial Workers of the World union member and songwriter was executed by firing squad for a murder he did not commit. During his life, Hill wrote many songs such as ‘There is Power in a Union’, ‘Casey Jones - the Union Scab’ and 'The Preacher and the Slave’ (where the saying 'pie in the sky’ comes from). In his final letter to IWW leader Bill Haywood he wrote: “Goodbye Bill. I die like a true blue rebel. Don’t waste any time in mourning. Organize.” We have made available this extensive work on Hill’s life in our online store: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/books/products/joe-hill-the-iww-the-making-of-a-revolutionary-workingclass-counterculture https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1268267143358433/?type=3 -- source link
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