Today in Labor History Oct 7 Joe Hill IWW born & Hollywood’s "Battle of the Mirrors."

[Omaha Steve]

October 7

Joe Hill, labor leader and song writer, born in Gavle, Sweden - 1879

And this:

October 7, 1879
Joe Hill was born Joseph Hillstrom in Gavle, Sweden. He emigrated to the United States, where he became a songwriter, poet and organizer for the Industrial Workers of the World, the “Wobblies.” He was convicted of murder on dubious evidence and in 1915 was shot by a firing squad in Utah. His parting words, to IWW co-founder “Big Bill” Haywood, have inspired many in the decades since: “Don’t mourn. Organize.”

Hollywood’s "Battle of the Mirrors." Picketing members of the Conference of Studio Unions disrupted an outdoor shoot by holding up large reflectors that filled camera lenses with blinding sunlight. Members of the competing IATSE union retaliated by using the reflectors to shoot sunlight back across the street. The battle went on all day, writes Tom Sito in "Drawing the Line" - 1946

Labor history found here: http://www.unionist.com/today-in-labor-history & here: http://www.workdayminnesota.org/index.php?history_9_10_07_2010

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1. I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night

As live as you and me.
Why Joe, says I. You're 9 years dead.
I never died, says he.