WE NEVER FORGET Fellow Worker Joe Hill Unjustly Imprisoned by the State of Utah, January 1914-November 1915

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Workers of the World Awaken by Joe Hill, LRSB Memorial 9th Edition, Cleveland 1916—————

We Never Forget Rebel Songwriter Joe Hill
Imprisoned by the State of Utah from January 1914-November 1915

Photographic timeline of the last two years of the life of Fellow Worker Joe Hill:

January 15, 1914, Salt Lake Tribune
-Joe Hillstrom [Joe Hill], wounded man, arrested in connection with Morrison murders.
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045396/1914-01-15/ed-1/seq-1/

Joe Hill, Joseph Hillstrom, SL Tb p1, Jan 15, 1914

January 11, 1914, Salt Lake Tribune
-John G. Morrison, grocer, and son, Arling, murdered night of January 10th.
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045396/1914-01-11/ed-1/seq-1/

John G. Morrison and son murdered Jan 10th Salt Lake City UT, SL Tb 1, Jan 11, 1914

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Hellraisers Journal: Western Federation of Miners Dedicates Monuments to John Murphy & George Pettibone, Part II

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Quote John ONeill re Pettibone, Mnrs Mag p7, July 29, 1909———-

Hellraisers Journal – Saturday August 7, 1909
Denver, Colorado – Monuments for Murphy and Pettibone Dedicated, Part II

From The Miners Magazine of August 5, 1909:

Monument to Murphy and Pettibone Dedicated July 24th.
[Part II]
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John Murphy, Pettibone, Mnrs Mag p4, Aug 5, p6, July 29, 1909
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Judge Hynes in a neat address then introduced John M. O’Neill, editor of the Miners’ Magazine, who delivered the following address:

Ladies and Gentlemen, Members of Organized Labor and Delegates to the Western Federation of Miners:

We have gathered here today to dedicate monuments to the memory of two men, who in life entwined themselves in the hearts of men and women who are scanning with yearning eyes the distant horizon and watching for the faint gleams of that glad morning that shall usher in a civilization that bequeathes to humanity the priceless heritage of industrial liberty. These monuments are the generous gifts of men who mourned the cruel summons of the grim messengers of death that snatched from life’s arena men whose deathless devotion and loyalty to the eternal principles of justice, made their names immortal in the labor movement of Western America. They did not come from the gory field of battle bearing victories that were baptized in human blood. They were not crowned with achievements won amid the fire and smoke of shot and shell, but they were soldiers in that great army of the world’s struggling millions that is slowly but surely marching onward toward the goal of economic freedom.

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Hellraisers Journal: Thousands Gather in Chicago to Honor FW Joe Hill and Sing His Rebel Songs

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I. W. W. movement has been sealed in
the sweet blood of this poet-radical.
-Jim Larkin
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Saturday November 27, 1915
Chicago, Illinois-
I. W. W. Gives FW Joe Hill a Grand Send-Off, Thousands March

Joe Hill's Funeral, Chicago, Nov 25, 1915-2, ISR of Jan 1916

A grand funeral hosted by the Industrial Workers of the World was provided for Fellow Worker Joe Hill, Working Class Martyr. Thousands gathered in the West Side Auditorium on Thanksgiving morning, November 25th. The windows of the auditorium were open and the singing within could be heard by the the thousands who filled the streets outside, extending for blocks in every direction.

After the morning’s orations were completed, a great throng of mourners followed the casket to the train which bore the remains of FW Joe Hill to Graceland Cemetery. Another funeral service took place there followed by singing which lasted late into the night.

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