EPISODE · Jul 24, 2015 · 2 MIN
Joe Hill - Alfred Hayes (words) and Earl Robinson (music)
from Peet Peterman · host Peet Peterman
Joan Baez cuver On 19th November 1915, poet and musician Joe Hill was executed by a firing squad in Utah, United States. Joe Hill was a Wobblie, a member of the IWW, Industrial Workers of the World, created in Chicago in 1905 by sectors too marginal and radical to be content with reformism of the official American union, which represented white, male, skilled workers. He left this message: 'Don't mourn, organise'
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Joan Baez cuver On 19th November 1915, poet and musician Joe Hill was executed by a firing squad in Utah, United States. Joe Hill was a Wobblie, a member of the IWW, Industrial Workers of the World, created in Chicago in 1905 by sectors too marginal and radical to be content with reformism of the official American union, which represented white, male, skilled workers. He left this message: 'Don't mourn, organise'
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