November 19 - Joe Hill’s Final Words

19/11/2025 1 min Episodio 2694
November 19 - Joe Hill’s Final Words

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Episode Synopsis

On this day in Labor History the year was 1915.  On that sad day, Industrial Workers of the World organizer and songwriter, Swedish-born Joe Hill, was executed in Utah. In 1914, Hill was framed for the murder of a grocer and his son in Salt Lake City.  The evidence was circumstantial at best.