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11/20/2015

Don’t Mourn, Organize! Remembering Joe Hill

One-hundred years ago this week, the state of Utah executed Joe Hill, silencing the union organizer and songwriter who gave us “There is Power in a Union” and “Casey Jones — the Union Scab.” Born Joel Hägglund in 1879 to Swedish parents, Hill became a staple on picket lines and at worker rallies, belting out songs collected in the Industrial Continue readingDon’t Mourn, Organize! Remembering Joe Hill

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