Joe Hill
Born	Joel Emmanuel Hägglund October 7, 1879(1879-10-07) Gävle, Sweden
Died	November 19, 1915 (aged 36) Utah
Cause of death	execution by firing squad
Occupation	Songwriter, labor activist and member of the Industrial Workers of the World

Joe Hill, born Joel Emmanuel Hägglund, and also known as Joseph Hillström (October 7, 1879 – November 19, 1915) was a Swedish-American songwriter, labor activist and member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), also known as the Wobblies. Events 3761 BC - The epoch (origin of the modern Hebrew calendar ( Proleptic Julian calendar) Year 1879 ( MDCCCLXXIX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Gävle is a city in east central Sweden with 68700 inhabitants ( 2005) "Sverige" redirects here For other uses see Sweden (disambiguation and Sverige (disambiguation. Events 1095 - The Council of Clermont, called by Pope Urban II to discuss sending the First Crusade to the Holy Land Year 1915 ( MCMXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year The State of Utah (ˈjuːtɔː or) is a western state of the United States. Capital punishment, the death penalty or execution, is the Killing of a person by judicial process as Punishment. A songwriter is someone who writes the Lyrics to songs the Musical composition (chords or Melody to songs or both A trade union or labour union is an organization of workers who have banded together to achieve common goals in key areas such as wages hours and working conditions forming The Industrial Workers of the World ( IWW or the Wobblies) is an international union currently headquartered in Cincinnati Ohio, USA Events 3761 BC - The epoch (origin of the modern Hebrew calendar ( Proleptic Julian calendar) Year 1879 ( MDCCCLXXIX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Events 1095 - The Council of Clermont, called by Pope Urban II to discuss sending the First Crusade to the Holy Land Year 1915 ( MCMXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Swedish Americans are Americans of Swedish descent most often related to the large groups of immigrants from Sweden in the late nineteenth century and early A songwriter is someone who writes the Lyrics to songs the Musical composition (chords or Melody to songs or both A trade union or labour union is an organization of workers who have banded together to achieve common goals in key areas such as wages hours and working conditions forming The Industrial Workers of the World ( IWW or the Wobblies) is an international union currently headquartered in Cincinnati Ohio, USA He was executed for murder after a controversial trial. Murder is the unlawful killing of another human person with Malice aforethought, as defined in Common Law countries After his death, he became the subject of several folk songs. Folk music can have a number of different meanings including Traditional music: The original meaning of the term "folk music" was synonymous

Early life and IWW activity

Hill was born in Gävle, a city in the province of Gästrikland, Sweden. Gävle is a city in east central Sweden with 68700 inhabitants ( 2005) is a historical province or landskap on the eastern coast of Sweden. "Sverige" redirects here For other uses see Sweden (disambiguation and Sverige (disambiguation. He emigrated to the United States in 1902, where he became a migrant laborer, moving from New York City to Cleveland, Ohio, and eventually to the West Coast. The City of New York Cleveland is a City in the US state of Ohio and the County seat of Cuyahoga County, the most populous county in the state He was in San Francisco, California, at the time of the 1906 earthquake. The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city Hill joined the Wobblies around 1910, when he was working on the docks in San Pedro, California. San Pedro is a beach community within Los Angeles California, USA In late 1910 he wrote a letter to the IWW newspaper Industrial Worker, identifying himself as a member of the Portland, Oregon IWW local. The Industrial Worker, "the voice of revolutionary industrial unionism" is the newspaper of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW a radical Portland is a city located in the Northwestern United States, near the Confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers

Hill rose in the IWW organization and traveled widely, organizing workers under the IWW banner, writing political songs and satirical poems, and making speeches. He coined the phrase "pie in the sky", which appeared in his song "The Preacher and the Slave" (a parody of the then well-known hymn "In the Sweet Bye and Bye"). "The Preacher and the Slave" is a song written by Joe Hill in 1911 A parody (ˈpɛɹədiː US, [ˈpaɹədiː] UK) in contemporary usage is a work created to mock comment on or poke fun at an original work its subject A hymn is a type of Song, usually religious specifically written for the purpose of praise adoration or Prayer, and typically addressed to a deity/deities Other notable songs written by Hill include "The Tramp", "There Is Power in a Union", "Rebel Girl", and "Casey Jones — Union Scab". " The Tramp " (1913 is &ndash together with " The Preacher and the Slave " &ndash one of labor organizer Joe Hill 's most well-known songs John Luther "Casey" Jones ( March 14, 1863 &ndash April 30, 1900) was an American Railroad engineer from

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Trial and execution

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On January 10, 1914, John G. Events 49 BC - Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signaling the start of civil war. Year 1914 ( MCMXIV) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Morrison and his son Arling were killed in their Salt Lake City butcher store by two armed intruders masked in red bandannas. A kerchief (from the French couvre-chef, "cover the head" is a triangular or square piece of Cloth tied around the Arling had drawn a handgun from behind the counter and wounded one of the masked men before being killed. The police first thought it was a crime of revenge, for nothing had been stolen (the elder Morrison had been a police officer, possibly creating many enemies).

On the same evening, Joe Hill appeared on the doorstep of a local doctor, bearing a bullet wound. Hill said that he had been shot in an argument over a woman, whom he refused to name. The doctor reported that Hill was armed with a pistol.

Considering Morrison's past as a police officer, several men he had arrested were at first considered suspects; twelve people were arrested in the case before Hill was arrested and charged with the murder. A red bandanna was found in Hill's room. The pistol purported to be in Hill's possession at the doctor's office was not found.

Hill resolutely denied that he was involved in the robbery and killing of Morrison. He said that when he was shot, his hands were over his head, and the bullet hole in his coat — four inches below the bullet wound in his back — seemed to support this claim. Hill did not testify at his trial, but his lawyers pointed out that four other people were treated for bullet wounds in Salt Lake City that same night, and that the lack of robbery and Hill's unfamiliarity with Morrison left him with no motive. ^[1]

The prosecution, for its part, produced a dozen eyewitnesses who said that the killer resembled Hill, including Merlin Morrison, the victims' son and brother, who said "that's not him at all" upon first seeing Hill, but later identified him as the murderer. The jury took just a few hours to find him guilty of murder. ^[1]

A widely-circulated story, which was included in the 1971 movie Joe Hill, is that Hill was in bed with a married woman on the night of the murder. He refused to use this iron-clad alibi, because in Utah in 1914, it would have ruined her reputation and her life. An alibi is the Plea or mode of defense under which a person on trial for a crime proves or attempts to prove that the person was in another place when the alleged His discretion ended his life. The story is the basis of several songs and at least one movie.

An appeal to the Utah Supreme Court was unsuccessful. The Utah Supreme Court is the State supreme court of Utah. It has final authority of interpretation of the Utah Constitution. Orrin N. Hilton, the lawyer representing Hill during the appeal, declared: "The main thing the state had on Hill was that he was an IWW and therefore sure to be guilty. Orrin N Hilton was a Denver judge and attorney who participated for the defense in several famous court cases Hill tried to keep the IWW out of [the trial]. . . but the press fastened it upon him. "^[1]

In a letter to the court, Hill continued to deny that the state had a right to inquire into the origins of his wound, leaving little doubt that the judges would affirm the conviction. In an article for the socialist newspaper Appeal to Reason, Hill wrote: "Owing to the prominence of Mr Morrison, there had to be a 'goat' and the undersigned being, as they thought, a friendless tramp, a Swede, and worst of all, an IWW, had no right to live anyway, and was therefore duly selected to be 'the goat'. Appeal to Reason is the fifth Studio album by American Punk rock band Rise Against, released on October 7, 2008 "^[2]

The case turned into a major media event. President Woodrow Wilson, the blind and deaf author Helen Keller, and people in Sweden all became involved in a bid for clemency. Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28 1856—February 3 1924 was the twenty-eighth President of the United States. Helen Adams Keller (June 27 1880 – June 1 1968 was an American Author, Activist and lecturer It generated international union attention, and critics charged that the trial and conviction were unfair.

Hill was executed by firing squad on November 19, 1915, and his last word was "Fire!" Just prior to his execution, he had written to Bill Haywood, an IWW leader, saying, "Goodbye Bill. Execution by firing squad is a method of Capital punishment, particularly common in times of war Events 1095 - The Council of Clermont, called by Pope Urban II to discuss sending the First Crusade to the Holy Land Year 1915 ( MCMXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year William Dudley Haywood (February 4 1869&ndashMay 18 1928 better known as Big Bill Haywood, was a prominent figure in the American labor movement. I die like a true blue rebel. Don't waste any time in mourning. Organize. . . Could you arrange to have my body hauled to the state line to be buried? I don't want to be found dead in Utah. ^[3][4]

His will, which was eventually set to music by Ethel Raim, read:^[5]

My will is easy to decide

For there is nothing to divide

My kin don't need to fuss and moan

"Moss does not cling to a rolling stone. "

My body? - Oh. - If I could choose

I would to ashes it reduce

And let the merry breezes blow

My dust to where some flowers grow

Perhaps some fading flower then

Would come to life and bloom again

This is my Last and final Will

Good Luck to All of you

Joe Hill

To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the execution of Joe Hill, Philip S. Foner published a book, The Case of Joe Hill, concerning the trial and subsequent events. It is still in print and is a concise introduction to Joe Hill’s life. Dr. Foner, like so many others, concludes that the case was seriously miscarried. ^[6]

Remains

Hill's body was sent to Chicago, where it was cremated. Chicago (ʃɪˈkɑːgoʊ is the largest City by population in the state of Illinois and the American Midwest of the United States. This was fitting, as he had joked that he would not be caught dead in Utah. His ashes were purportedly sent to every IWW local. The Industrial Workers of the World ( IWW or the Wobblies) is an international union currently headquartered in Cincinnati Ohio, USA In 1988 it was discovered that an envelope had been seized by the U. S. Postal Service in 1917 because of its "subversive potential". The envelope, with a photo affixed, captioned, "Joe Hill murdered by the capitalist class, Nov. 19, 1915," as well as its contents, was deposited at the National Archives. The United States National Archives and Records Administration ( NARA) is an independent agency of the United States federal government charged

After some negotiations, the last of Hill's ashes (but not the envelope that contained them) was turned over to the IWW in 1988. The weekly In These Times ran notice of the ashes and invited readers to suggest what should be done with them. In These Times is a politically progressive monthly magazine of news and opinion published by the Institute for Public Affairs in Chicago. Suggestions varied from enshrining them at the AFL-CIO headquarters in Washington, DC to Abbie Hoffman's suggestion that they be eaten by today's "Joe Hills" like Billy Bragg and Michelle Shocked. American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, commonly AFL-CIO, is a National trade union center, the largest federation of Abbot Howard "Abbie" Hoffman (November 30 1936 &ndash April 12 1989 was a radical social and political activist in the United States who co-founded the Stephen William Bragg (born December 20, 1957 in Essex, England) better known as Billy Bragg, is an English musician who Michelle Shocked (born Karen Michelle Johnston 24 February, 1962, in Dallas Texas) is a U Bragg did indeed swallow a small bit of the ashes and still carries Shocked's share for eventual completion of Hoffman's last prank. The majority of the ashes were cast to the wind in the US, Canada, Sweden, Australia, and Nicaragua. Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page "Sverige" redirects here For other uses see Sweden (disambiguation and Sverige (disambiguation. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Australia topics. Nicaragua (ˌnɪkəˈrɑgwə officially the Republic of Nicaragua () is a representative democratic republic and the largest nation in Central America The ashes sent to Sweden were only partly cast to the wind. The main part was interred in the wall of a union office in Landskrona, a minor city in the south of the country, with a plaque commemorating Hill. Landskrona is a city in the province Scania in southernmost Sweden. That room is now the reading room of the local city library.

One small packet of ashes was scattered at a 1989 ceremony which unveiled a monument to IWW coal miners buried in Lafayette, Colorado. The City of Lafayette (ˌlɑːfeɪˈɛt is a Home Rule Municipality located in Boulder County, Colorado, United States. The State of Colorado ( or chiefly by nonresidents) is a state located in the Rocky Mountain region of the United States of America. Six unarmed strikers were machine gunned by a Colorado state police force in 1927 in the (first) Columbine Massacre. The first Columbine Massacre, sometimes called the Columbine Mine massacre to distinguish it from the Columbine High School massacre, occurred in 1927 when striking Until 1989 the graves of five of these men were unmarked. Another famous Wobbly, Carlos Cortez, scattered Joe Hill's ashes on the graves at the commemoration. Carlos Cortez ( August 13, 1923 &ndash January 19, 2005) was a Poet, Graphic artist, Photographer, Muralist ^[7]

Influence and tributes

Hill was memorialized in a tribute poem written about him c. 1930 by Alfred Hayes titled "I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night", sometimes referred to simply as "Joe Hill". Alfred Hayes (18 April 1911 &ndash 14 August 1985 was an English Screenwriter, Television writer Novelist and poet, who worked ^[8] Hayes's lyrics were turned into a song in 1936 by Earl Robinson. Earl Hawley Robinson ( July 2, 1910 – July 20, 1991) was a songwriter and composer from Seattle Washington.

• Paul Robeson and Pete Seeger often performed this song and are associated with it, along with Irish folk group The Dubliners. Paul LeRoy Bustill Robeson ( April 9, 1898 &ndash January 23, 1976) was a multi-lingual American Actor, athlete Peter "Pete" Seeger (born May 3 1919 is an American folk singer political Activist, and a key figure in the mid-20th century American Ireland (pronounced /ˈaɾlənd/ Éire) is the third largest island in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world The Dubliners are an Irish folk band founded in 1962. Formation and history The Dubliners formed in 1962 Joan Baez's Woodstock performance of "Joe Hill" in 1969 is the most well-known recording. Joan Chandos Baez (born January 9, 1941 in Staten Island, New York) an American Folk singer and Songwriter known She also recorded a live version on her 2005 album Bowery Songs. Scott Walker recorded a version for his album The Moviegoer. Scott Walker is the Stage name of the American Singer-songwriter Noel Scott Engel (born 9 January 1943 in Hamilton The Moviegoer is a 1972 album by Scott Walker. Produced by Johnny Franz and engineered by Peter J

• Ralph Chaplin wrote a tribute poem/song called "Joe Hill"^[9] and referred to him in his song "Red November, Black November. Ralph Hosea Chaplin (1887&mdash1961 became a labor Activist, when at the age of seven he saw a worker shot dead during the Pullman strike in Chicago "

• Phil Ochs wrote and recorded a different, original song called "Joe Hill",^[10] using a traditional melody found in the song "John Hardy," which tells a much more detailed story of Joe Hill's life and death, and includes the lines that have since been associated with Ochs' own life and death, "It's the life of a rebel that he chose to live; It's the death of a rebel that he died". Philip David Ochs ( December 19 1940 – April 9 1976) was a U " John Hardy " is a traditional American folk song based on the life of a railroad worker in West Virginia. Ochs' song concludes with Hill's words, "This is my last and final will; Good luck to all of you, Joe Hill, Good luck to all of you. "

• After Phil Ochs' death, Billy Bragg reworked the Hayes-Robinson song as "I Dreamed I Saw Phil Ochs Last Night". Stephen William Bragg (born December 20, 1957 in Essex, England) better known as Billy Bragg, is an English musician who

• Frank Tovey sings about Joe Hill in his song 'Joe Hill' from the 1989 album Tyranny and the Hired Hand. Fad Gadget is the Stage name of Francis John (Frank Tovey ( September 8, 1956 &ndash April 3, 2002) In this song he uses some of the words from the Alfred Hayes poem.

• Bob Dylan claims that Hill's story was one of his inspirations to begin writing his own songs. Bob Dylan (born Robert Zimmerman, May 24 1941 in Duluth, Minnesota) is an American singer-songwriter author poet and painter who has been a major His song "I dreamed I Saw St. Augustine" is loosely based around the story and Robinson's version.

• Chumbawamba's song about Joe Hill, "By and By", appears on the 2005 album A Singsong and a Scrap. Chumbawamba are an English band who began their career playing Anarcho-punk, but over a 25-year career have gone on to play music ranging from pop -influenced A Singsong and a Scrap is a Chumbawamba album released in 2005

• In 1990, Smithsonian Folkways released Don't Mourn — Organize!: Songs of Labor Songwriter Joe Hill. Folkways Records is a Record label that documents folk and world music This compilation featured the likes of "Haywire Mac" McClintock and Cisco Houston performing his songs as well as narrative interludes from Utah Phillips, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, and others. Bruce "Utah" Duncan Phillips ( May 15 1935 &ndash May 23 2008) was a labor organizer Folk singer, storyteller Elizabeth Gurley Flynn ( August 7, 1890 &ndash September 5, 1964) was a labor leader activist and Feminist who played a leading

• The Swedish socialist leader Ture Nerman (1886–1969) wrote a biography of Joe Hill. "Sverige" redirects here For other uses see Sweden (disambiguation and Sverige (disambiguation. Socialism refers to a broad set of economic theories of social organization advocating state or collective ownership and administration of the Means of production and distribution Ture "Ten Head" Nerman ( May 18, 1886, Norrköping – October 7, 1969) was a Swedish Socialist For the project, Nerman did the first serious research about Hill's life story, including finding and interviewing Hill's family members in Sweden. Nerman, who was a poet himself, also translated most of Hill's songs into Swedish.

• Wallace Stegner published a fictional biography called Joe Hill in 1950. Wallace Earle Stegner ( February 18, 1909 — April 13, 1993) was an American Historian, Novelist, Short story

• Authors Stephen and Tabitha King named their second child, Joseph Hillstrom King, after Joe Hill. Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American Author, Screenwriter, Musician, Columnist, Tabitha King (née Tabitha Jane Spruce) (born March 24, 1949) is an American Author and Activist. Joseph Hillstrom King (born June 1972 Hermon Maine) is an American Writer of Fiction, writing under the pen name of Joe Hill.

• Gibbs M. Smith wrote a biography "Joe Hill", which was later turned into the 1971 movie Joe Hill also known as The Ballad of Joe Hill directed by Bo Widerberg. Joe Hill is a 1971 Biopic about Swedish-American labor activist Joe Hill. Joe Hill is a 1971 Biopic about Swedish-American labor activist Joe Hill. Bo Widerberg, ( June 8, 1930 &ndash May 1, 1997) was a Swedish Film director, writer, editor and ^[11]

• A chapter of John Dos Passos's novel 1919 is a stylized biography of Joe Hill. John Roderigo Dos Passos ( January 14, 1896 &ndash September 28, 1970) was an American Novelist and artist The USA Trilogy is the major work of American writer John Dos Passos, comprising the novels The 42nd Parallel (1930 1919, also known as Nineteen

• Robert Hunter wrote the opening verse about Joe Hill for the song "Down the Road" which he wrote for Mickey Hart's Mystery Box. Mickey Hart (born September 11, 1943) is a percussionist and musicologist.

• The Nightwatchman (a. The Nightwatchman is the Alter-ego and solo act of Rage Against the Machine and ex- Audioslave Guitarist Tom Morello. k. a. Tom Morello, guitarist of Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave) refers to Joe Hill in his song "The Union Song". Thomas Baptist Morello (born May 30 1964 is a Grammy Award -winning American Guitarist best known for his tenure with the bands Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine (sometimes shortened to RATM or Rage) is Audioslave was an American Hard rock supergroup that formed in Los Angeles California in 2001

• For Rage Against the Machine's second Album, Evil Empire, a suggested reading list was included. Rage Against the Machine (sometimes shortened to RATM or Rage) is Included is the biography Joe Hill written by Gibbs M. Smith.

• Joe Hill's name is invoked in Steve Earle's song, "Christmas in Washington. Stephen 'Steve' Fain Earle (ɝl is an American Singer-songwriter, well known for his rock and Country music, as well as his political views "

• The Swedish punk rock band Randy refers to Joe Hill and the organization Industrial Workers of the World in a song called "If We Unite" on their album The Human Atom Bombs from 2001. Randy is a Punk rock band from Hortlax, Sweden, formed in 1992. The Industrial Workers of the World ( IWW or the Wobblies) is an international union currently headquartered in Cincinnati Ohio, USA The Human Atom Bombs is the third album by the Punk Rock band Randy

• Kev Carmody's piece "Comrade Jesus Christ", includes the line "he'd fight with Joe Hill". Kevin Daniel Carmody is an Indigenous Australian Singer-songwriter born in 1946 in Cairns Queensland.

• The song "Down the Road" written and performed by Robert Hunter and recorded on Mickey Hart's Mystery Box, is a song about revolutionaries, and includes a verse about Joe Hill.

• In his book An Undividable Glow ^[12], Robert Brady speaks about an area of Manchester, England as Cheetham "Joe" Hill.

Seattle composer and bandleader Wayne Horvitz created a musical tribute for Joe Hill in 2008. The orchestral work which premiered at Benaroya Hall in Seattle, features the Northwest Sinfona and guest soloists Bill Frisell, Robin Holcomb, Danny Barnes, and Rinde Eckert. http://www.waynehorvitz.com/

Notes

References

• "The Man Who Never Died," A Play about Joe Hill, with Notes on Joe Hill and His Times, by Barrie Stavis, New York: Haven Press, 1954. The "notes" are actually a carefully researched, 116 page history of the period, with detailed analysis of the trial of Joe Hill; the notes include photographs of people, events, and documents. The play was produced in New York City off-broadway at the Jan Hus Play House in 1958. The revised play and compressed notes were published in a second version of this book under the same title, published at Cranbury NJ: A. S. Barnes, 1972.
• Fellow Workers. Philips, Utah and Difranco, Ani. Righteous Babe Records, NY, 1999.
• Joe Hill: IWW Songwriter. Nolan, Dead & Thompson, Fred. Kersplebedeb. Montreal.
• Joe Hill--The Man and the Myth. Gibbs Smith.
• We Shall Be All: A History of the IWW. Melvyn Dubrosky.
• Where the Fraser River Flows: the IWW in BC. Mark Leier.
• Wobblies! A Graphic History of the Industrial Workers of the World. Buhle, Paul and Schulman, Nicole, eds. Verso, NY, 2005.

• Zinn, Howard (September 2001). Howard Zinn (born August 24 1922 is an American Historian, political scientist, social critic, activist and Playwright, best known A People's History of the United States, Revised and Updated, New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers. ISBN 0-06-093731-9.  

External links

• Joe Hill Project - An ongoing theatrical project
• IWW tribute page to Joe Hill
• Lyrics to Phil Ochs's song about Joe Hill
• The murder of Joe Hill
• The Preacher and the Slave (Joe Hill)
• Industrial Workers of the World