Radio Blue Heart is on the air!
workingclasshistory: “On this day, 19 November 1915, Joe Hill, Swedish-American Industrial Workers of the World union member and songwriter was executed by firing squad for a murder he did not commit. During his life, Hill wrote many songs such as...

workingclasshistory:

On this day, 19 November 1915, Joe Hill, Swedish-American Industrial Workers of the World union member and songwriter was executed by firing squad for a murder he did not commit. During his life, Hill wrote many songs such as ‘There is Power in a Union’, ‘Casey Jones - the Union Scab’ and 'The Preacher and the Slave’ (where the saying 'pie in the sky’ comes from). In his final letter to IWW leader Bill Haywood he wrote: “Goodbye Bill. I die like a true blue rebel. Don’t waste any time in mourning. Organize.”
Learn more in this extensive work on Hill’s life: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/books/products/joe-hill-the-iww-the-making-of-a-revolutionary-workingclass-counterculture https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1587406394777838/?type=3

Reblogged 2 years ago from workingclasshistory
215 notes
  1. the-no-dont-do-its reblogged this from workingclasshistory
  2. romanbaths-stuff reblogged this from workingclasshistory
  3. child-of-angrycrabeyes reblogged this from workingclasshistory and added:
    (via Gridllr)
  4. art2ducati reblogged this from decembersoul
  5. imathers reblogged this from workingclasshistory
  6. seekingxanadu reblogged this from northoftheroad and added:
    A great call. Timeless advice really.
  7. eldergaylioneljholmes reblogged this from transmechanicus
  8. decembersoul reblogged this from idroveatank
  9. xipiti reblogged this from idroveatank
  10. idroveatank reblogged this from coupdegracie
  11. coupdegracie reblogged this from workingclasshistory
  12. paris-rokin reblogged this from transmechanicus
  13. den1990 reblogged this from workingclasshistory
  14. workingclasshistory posted this