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IWW members in jail for free speech! (I had to fix the audio link oops) (Original Post) Omaha Steve Mar 2016 OP
Joe Hill Babel_17 Mar 2016 #1

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1. Joe Hill
Thu Mar 24, 2016, 10:18 PM
Mar 2016
http://www.aflcio.org/About/Our-History/Key-People-in-Labor-History/Joe-Hill-1879-1915

A songwriter, itinerant laborer, and union organizer, Joe Hill became famous around the world after a Utah court convicted him of murder. Even before the international campaign to have his conviction reversed, however, Joe Hill was well known in hobo jungles, on picket lines and at workers' rallies as the author of popular labor songs and as an Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) agitator. Thanks in large part to his songs and to his stirring, well-publicized call to his fellow workers on the eve of his execution—"Don't waste time mourning, organize!"—Hill became, and he has remained, the best-known IWW martyr and labor folk hero.

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