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Hellraisers Journal – Sunday January 25, 1914
Salt Lake City, Utah – Joe Hill’s “Crime Record” Received from California
From the Deseret Evening News of January 24, 1914:
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Hellraisers Journal – Sunday January 25, 1914
Salt Lake City, Utah – Joe Hill’s “Crime Record” Received from California
From the Deseret Evening News of January 24, 1914:
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From Labor History Journal of Fall 1984:
JOE HILL-CARTOONIST
by PHILIP MASON
In 1980, the Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs at Wayne State University acquired four postcards written by Joe Hill, the “Wobbly songwriter and poet,” to a friend, Charles Rudberg, between the years 1911 and 1914. The four postcards contained more than the usual short message-each included a cartoon of drawing by Joe Hill…..
Mason goes on to describe the postcards (see below).
Mason fails to mention exactly how the postcards were acquired, but perhaps they came from Rudberg’s daughter, Frances Horn, of Ventura, California, with whom Mason had communicated. Horn stated that her father and Joe Hill were childhood friends in Galve, Sweden, and reunited later in San Francisco shortly before the San Francisco Fire. Both Rudberg and his daughters cherished the postcards from Joe Hill and kept them as “priceless heirlooms.”
Mason was, in 1984, Director of the Archives of Labor History and Urban Affairs , Wayne State Univ., Professor History Dept.
Franklin Rosemont states that in a letter to Mason on January 29, 1980, Frances Horn wrote that her father told her older sister that Joe could also “sing like an angel, play the violin like a master and write like a fury.”
January 24, 1911
-from Joe Hill at Coalinga CA
to Charles Rudberg at Sailors Rest Mission, San Pedro CA:
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April 29, 1911
-from Joe Hill at Sailors Rest Mission, San Pedro CA
to Charles Rudberg at Sailor’s Union Hall, East Street, San Francisco CA:
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September 2, 1911
-from Joe Hill at San Pedro CA
to Charles Rudberg at Sailors Union Hall, East Street, San Francisco CA:
With Poem by Joe Hill:
The song of Mauser bullets
may be exciting
and the rattle of machine-guns
may also have its thrills-
but Oh you hoboeing!
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December 18, 1914
-from Joe Hill at Salt Lake County Jail, Salt Lake City UT
to Charles Rudberg at San Francisco (?) CA
Note: Joe was not moved to Utah State Pen until July 1915, after appeal for new trial was denied by Utah Supreme Court.
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