19 November

19 November 2008 - 12:00am — P and J

The radical labour organiser and International Workers of the World activist Joel Emmanuel Hägglund, aka Joseph Hillström, aka Joe Hill, was executed by firing squad in Utah on 19 November 1915. His last word was ‘Fire!'
Hill was found guilty of murder in a controversial trial. Shortly before his death he wrote famously, ‘Don't waste any time in mourning – organise!'
I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night,
Alive as you and me.
Says I, ‘But Joe, you're ten years dead.'
‘I never died,' said he,
‘I (...)

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