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  Joe Hill
Joe Hill, born Joel Hägglund, and also known as Joe Hillstrom (October 7, 1879 - November 19, 1915) was a American labor activist and member of the Industrial Workers of the World, better known as the Wobblies.
Hill was born in Gävle, Sweden, a town north of Stockholm.
Hill is also remembered from a tribute song written about him after his death by Alfred Hayes[?] entitled "I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night", although sometimes referred to simply as "Joe Hill".
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/jo/Joe_Haaglund_Hill.html   (499 words)

  
 Science Fair Projects - Joe Hill
Joe Hill, born Joel Emmanuel Hägglund, and also known as Joseph Hillström (October 7, 1879 - November 19, 1915) was an American labor activist and member of the Industrial Workers of the World, better known as the Wobblies.
Hill was executed by firing squad on November 19, 1915.
Hill is also remembered from a tribute poem written about him in 1925 by Alfred Hayes entitled "I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night", although sometimes referred to simply as "Joe Hill".
www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Joe_Haaglund_Hill   (866 words)

  
 The Man Who Didn't Die (Labor) by Dick Meister   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Joe Hill's story is the story of perhaps the greatest of all folk poets, whose simple, satirical rhymes set to simple, familiar melodies did so much to focus working people on the common body of ideals needed to forge them into a collective force.
Joe Hill's story is the story of a man who saw with unusual clarity the unjust effects of the political, social and economic system on working people and whose own widely publicized trial and execution alerted people worldwide to the injustices and spurred them into corrective action.
Joe Hill's body was shipped to Chicago, where it was cremated after a hero's funeral, the ashes divided up and sent to IWW locals for scattering on the winds in every state except Utah.
www.dickmeister.com /id99.html   (1238 words)

  
 Joe Hill   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Joe Hill born Joel Hägglund and also known as Joe Hillstrom (October 7 1879 - November 19 1915) was an American labor activist and member of the Industrial Workers of the World better known as the Wobblies.
Joe Hill is remembered for his devotion union organizing and his many clever song some of which continue to be sung.
Hill is also remembered from a tribute poem written about him in 1925 by Alfred Hayes entitled "I Dreamed Saw Joe Hill Last Night" although sometimes to simply as "Joe Hill".
www.freeglossary.com /Joe_Haaglund_Hill   (711 words)

  
 Joe Hill
Hill was also a songwriter and his socialist songs appeared in the trade union newspapers, Industrial Worker and Solidarity.
At Hill's trial in Salt Lake City none of the witnesses were able to identify Hill as one of the murders.
Elizabeth Flynn visited Hill in prison and was a leading figure in the attempts to force a retrial.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAhillJ.htm   (1566 words)

  
 Joe's Bio
In one of the most disputed cases to date, Joe Hill, the most prolific songwriter in the history of the Industrial Workers of the World, was convicted of murdering John Morrison, owner of Morrison Grocery, and his son Arling on the night of January 10, 1914 in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Joe Hill, born Joel Haaglund, also learned to play the violin, guitar, accordion, and piano, as his love for music developed.
Joe Hill was eventually convicted of murdering John and Arling Morrison, and took his last breath in Utah before the firing squad.
www.joehill.org /joesbio.htm   (392 words)

  
 Joe Hill
Joe Hill was a Swedish immigrant who came to America in 1900.
Joe Hill was probably more rogue than radical, and the songs he wrote were often little more than doggerel...
Joe's body was reduced to ashes, which were placed in many small envelopes: "These were sent to I.W.W. sympathisers in all forty-eight states of the U.S. except...
mysongbook.de /msb/songs/j/joehill.html   (1481 words)

  
 ZNet Commentary: Joe Hill: The Man Who Didn't Die
But Joe Hill, as the folk ballad says, "ain't never died." On this 90th anniversary of his execution, he lives on as one of the most enduring and influential of American symbols.
Organize!" Hill's comrades aimed at nothing less than organizing all workers into One Big Union regardless of their race, nationality, craft or work skills, calling a general strike and wresting control of the economy from its capitalist masters.
Hill, with typical grim humor, had declared that "I don't want to be caught dead in Utah." Even in death, Hill was not safe from the government.
www.zmag.org /sustainers/content/2005-11/19meister.cfm   (1131 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Joel Haaglund was born in Sweden in 1879 and lived there from his birth until 1902 as the son ofa poverty-whacked railwayman.
It did show that Hill sustained a gunshot wound the night of the robbery and that he possessed a gun he later disposed of that same night.
Hill was very poorly represented by legal counsel and he declined to reveal to the jury, explainations and circumstances that would have established his innocence.
www.bunkerco.com /people/hill   (361 words)

  
 Joe Hill: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
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Joe Hill is remembered for his devotion to union organizing and his many clever...
...10 January 1974, Joe-Remiro Joe Remiro Joe Remiro and Russ Little were arrested and charged with...
www.encyclopedian.com /jo/Joe-Haaglund-Hill.html   (716 words)

  
 The Dead Rock Stars Club - The 50's and earlier
Mildred Hill (Mildred Jane Hill) - Died 1916 (Composer) Born 1859 - She was a co-writer of, "Happy Birthday To You" (The song most of you sing at someone's birthday party) - Originally titled, "Good Morning To All", the words to the song were changed without the composers permission, which was later proved in court.
Joe McMichael - Died 1944 - Fighting in World War II (Pop) Was a founding member of The Merry Macs (They did,"Mairzy Doats" and "Praise The Lord And Pass The Ammunition") The group was originally know as The McMichaels, The Mystery Trio and The Personality Boys.
Joe Hill Louis (Lester Hill) (aka The Pepticon Boy) - Died 8-5-1957 - Tetanus infection from a cut on his thumb (Blues - Boogie) Born 9-23-1921 in Raines, Tennessee, U.S (He did,"Hydramatic Woman") He was the only member of The Be-Bop Boy And His One-Man Band.
www.itsnet.com /doc-rock/1950.html   (9950 words)

  
 Home
It is dedicated to the study of the Joe Hill case and its relevant peripheral information.
To date we have collected some of Joe Hill's songs, quite a number of newspaper articles on Joe Hill, and links to other Joe Hill sites.
The summary sketches of Joe's biography, the IWW, Utah in the 1900's, the Joe Hill case and other relevant topics are the work of the students involved in the project.
www.joehill.org   (126 words)

  
 Posters - : Joe Hill Stamp
Joe Emmanuel Haaglund joined the flow of Swedish immigrants to the United States at the age of nineteen.
Despite an international outcry Joe Hill was executed November 19, 1915.
He left a legacy of songs that are still sung in struggles for justice.
northlandposter.com /catalog/p551.html   (82 words)

  
 MusicStories.net: JOE HILL
In this, he was one of the first people in the twentieth century to make social and critical use of folk song, and a forerunner of Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan.
A direct influence on Woody Guthrie, Hill was later lionized in several songs, including 'Joe Hill' (1938, written by Earl Robinson, co-author of Three Dog Night's 1972 American No. 1, 'Black and White'), recorded by Joan Baez, among others, and 'Joe Hill' by Phil Ochs.
In 1971 he was played by Thommy Berggren in Bo Widerberg's romantic biopic, Joe Hill.
www.musicstories.net /Joe_Hill.htm   (338 words)

  
 The Dead Rock Stars Club - New Entries
Joe Carroll (Joseph Paul Taylor) (aka Bebop) - Died 2-1-1981 in New York, NY, U.S. (Jazz) Born 11-25-1919 in Philadelphia, PA, U.S. - Singer - (He did, "Got A Penny, Benny?" and "The Land Of Ooh Bla Dee").
Joe Carroll (Joseph Marcus Fischer) - Died 12-18-1983 in San Francisco, CA, U.S. (Jazz) Played bass and keyboards - Born in Los Angeles, CA, U.S. - Worked with The Great American Music Band, Red Norvo and The David Grisman Quintet.
Joe Jordan - Died 9-11-1971 (Jazz) Born 1882 in Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S. - Played piano, violin and drums - (He wrote, "Rise And Shine" and "Oh, Liza Lady") - Worked with Louis Chauvin, Sam Patterson, The Taborin Band, King And Bailey's Chocolate Drops and Ten Sharps And Flats.
thedeadrockstarsclub.com /newentrees.html   (14079 words)

  
 IISH - Today in 1905 : 27 June - Power in a Union   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Most of all, the Wobblies were known throughout the world because they shaped the tradition of rebellious labour songs.
The songwriter and singer, Joe Hill (1879-1915), achieved the status of a martyr.
This was partly due to the fact that Hill (whose real name was Joel Emmanuel Haaglund) had arrived in the US in 1901 with an obscure Swedish background and was executed for murdering a grocer in 1915.
www.iisg.nl /today/en/27-06.php   (124 words)

  
 More Info - Wobblies wik9.info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Indeed, many of its early members were first- and second-generation immigrants, and some, like Carlo Tresca, Joe Haaglund Hill and Mary Jones, rose to prominence in the leadership.
In 1914, Joe Hill (Joel Hägglund) was accused of murder and, despite only circumstantial evidence, was executed by the state of Utah in 1915.
In the 1960s, the folk music revival in the United States brought a renewed interest in the songs of Joe Hill and other Wobblies, and seminal folk revival figures such as Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie had a pro-Wobbly tone, while some, like Phil Ochs, were members of the IWW.
wobblies.en.wik9.info   (3199 words)

  
 Joe Hill: The Man Who Didn't Die - Looking Glass News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Joe Hill: The Man Who Didn't Die - Looking Glass News
"Joe Hill," it said -- "murdered by the capitalist class, Nov. 19, 1915." Or maybe the authorities objected to Hill's Last Will, which was printed on the back of the envelope:
This is my last and final will, Good luck to all of you, Joe Hill"
lookingglassnews.org /viewcommentary.php?storyid=103   (1291 words)

  
 SRS480-04 SENIOR SEMINAR: PANDEMIC DISEASE Spring 2005
For this senior seminar course we will look at several of the major movements for social change and examine how protest songs supported the cause and helped to effect social change.
  Though musical styles range from folk, to rock, to jazz, to rap, the result is, as Joe Hill so aptly put it, that the very people who were trying to bring about change were sustained and supported by the power of the music.
  And it is perhaps mostly through Joe Hill's songs - 'Pie in the Sky,' 'The Rebel Girl,' 'Casey Jones' - and the others included in the Little Red Songbook that the Wobblies live on in the collective memory.
faculty.maryvillecollege.edu /bunde/SRS480SYL2005.htm   (1875 words)

  
 publish.nyc.indymedia.org | Joe Hill: The Man Who Didn't Die
"Joe Hill," it said -"murdered by the capitalist class, Nov. 19, 1915."
dick meister succeeds in praising joe hill until he is blue in the face while simultaneously relegating the sort of energetic, autonomous and direct action oriented-labor organizing that joe hill advocated to the dust bin of history.
All content is free for reprint and rebroadcast, on the net and elsewhere, for non-commercial use, unless otherwise noted by author.
nyc.indymedia.org /en/2005/11/60654.html   (1512 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
An anarchist from Texas joined me for the pilgimage to the boyhood home of Joel Haaglund, better known as Joe Hill.
The building is now maintained by SAC as a museum with Hill memorabilia.
Most of the space is used as SAC offices while a garden provides open air meeting space.
www.spunk.org /texts/groups/iww/sp000699.txt   (689 words)

  
 AmericanHeritage.com / Here Come the Wobblies!
In January, 1914, Salt Lake City police arrested Hill on the charge of murdering a grocer and his son in a holdup.
Circumstantial evidence was strongly against him, but Hill went through trial and conviction stoutly insisting that he had been framed.
Though a popular ballad written many years afterward intones, “The copper bosses killed you, Joe,” Hill was not definitely linked to any strike activity in Utah, and had been in the I.W.W. for only four years.
www.americanheritage.com /articles/magazine/ah/1967/4/1967_4_30.shtml   (6410 words)

  
 Industrial Workers of the World
Several immigrants such as Mary 'Mother' Jones, Hubert Harrison, Carlo Tresca, Arturo Giovannitti and Joe Haaglund Hill became leaders of the organization.
Convicted on circumstantial evidence and despite of mass protests, Hill was shot by a firing squad on 19th November, 1915.
Joe O'Brien gives me a picture other at that time.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAiww.htm   (2337 words)

  
 Rehabilitation Psychology News Winter 2003
Hats off to Kris Haaglund, President-elect of Division 22 who was instrumental in shaping the final version of the 2002 Safety Net legislation signed into law by President Bush on November 9, 2002.
As a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow with Senator Tom Harkin, Kris Haaglund worked with the APA Education lobby and advocated on behalf of psychology and other behavioral and mental health professions.
In short, Kris Haaglund has helped to secure federal recognition of psychological services as a primary health care service.
www.apa.org /divisions/div22/Winter2003news.html   (6535 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Joel Emmanuel Haaglund was born in Gefle (Gävle), Sweden in 1882.
He emigrated to the United States in 1901 and settled in California where he changed his name to Joe Hill.
Converted to socialism in 1910, Hill became a member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and was one of the leaders of the San Pedro dock workers' strike.
www.lycos.com /info/bo-widerberg.html?page=2   (461 words)

  
 Hi - Real Names of Famous Folk - Hi
Benny Hill, Television comedian, Alfred Hawthorn Hill, (Southampton, England, 21 January 1924-1992).
Dana Hill, Actor; Dana Hill Goetz (Encino, California 6 May 1964 - 15 July 1996).
Joe Hill, Labour organizer/song writer, used the phrase "pie in the sky" in his song "The Preacher and the Slave"; Joel Emmanuel Haaglund, aka Joseph Hillstrom.
www.famousfolk.com /real/names-h/hi.shtml   (360 words)

  
 [www.kitsapsun.com] The SUN newspaper of Bremerton, Wash.
Joe Troy Bundy, 70, of Poulsbo, died May 22, 2001 at his home.
He had been active in churches while living in Woodland, Calif., and Laguna Hills, Calif. He was a member of Port Orchard Church of Christ.
She was born Feb. 16, 1920, in Easton, Penn., to Joseph and Rose Mary Yacone.
web.kitsapsun.com /local/obits/may2001.html   (16526 words)

  
 media concentration (was Re: [lbo-talk] Bloomberg)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Warren was a well-known figure on the left and managed to persuade some of America's leading progressives to contribute to the journal.
This included Jack London, Mary 'Mother' Jones, Upton Sinclair, Kate Richards O'Hare, Scott Nearing, Joe Haaglund Hill, Ralph Chaplin, Stephen Crane, Helen Keller and Eugene Debs.
By 1902 its circulation reached 150,000, making it the fourth highest of any weekly in the United States." http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAappealR.htm Around the time that Appeal to Reason was pulished in Kansas, an anarchist weekly newspaper titled "Lucifer, the Lightbearer" was published in Valley Falls, Kansas.
mailman.lbo-talk.org /pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20050718/015725.html   (312 words)

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