Joe Hill
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Joe Hill was a Swedish-American labor activist, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World. A native Swedish speaker, he learned English during the early 1900s, while working various jobs from New York to San Francisco.
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Hill was the author of numerous labor songs, including "The Rebel Girl", inspired by IWW activist Elizabeth Gurley Flynn.
Hill c. 1910-1915
Diagram of the execution of Hill on November 19, 1915
Hill's will, written as a poem that begins "My will is easy to decide/for there is nothing to divide"
Sheriff's Office requesting the Board of County Commissioners cover the execution cost for Joe Hill
Cartoon by Joe Hill: The Food Question, One Big Union Monthly, November 1919
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Joe Hill was a Swedish-American labor activist, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World. A native Swedish speaker, he learned English during the early 1900s, while working various jobs from New York to San Francisco. Hill, an immigrant worker frequently facing unemployment and underemployment, became a popular songwriter and cartoonist for the union. His songs include "The Preacher and the Slave", "The Tramp", "There Is Power in a Union", "The Rebel Girl", and "Casey Jones - the Union Scab", which express the harsh and combative life of itinerant workers, and call for workers to organize their efforts to improve working conditions.
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