{"id":7150,"date":"2022-11-20T23:55:14","date_gmt":"2022-11-20T23:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=7150"},"modified":"2022-12-31T01:39:22","modified_gmt":"2022-12-31T01:39:22","slug":"misc-joe-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=7150","title":{"rendered":"MiSC: Joe Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Joe Hill.*<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Thanks to a FB pal\u2019s post I learned of Joe Hill today. Not heard of him before. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

An itinerant worker of Swedish ancestry, Hill was a \u2018Wobblie\u2019, or member of the IWW (Industrial Workers of the World), rising to prominence in that organisation as a songwriter and cartoonist, as well as for his vocal activism. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hill was executed, aged just 36, in 1915. Allegedly for a robbery in which two men, father and son (the elder an ex-policemen), were killed. I know next to nothing about all this. So I\u2019ll be looking into it. It\u2019s pretty fascinating! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tom Morello of RATM credits a whole lineage of protest music to Joe Hill\u2019s leading example, which is interesting. As a musician and artist I\u2019m immediately drawn to Hill, not just because I share his politics to some extent (to what extent I don\u2019t know as yet!), but because art and music are my \u2018bag\u2019. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rather strikingly, Hill\u2019s will, reproduced below (along with a post-mortem photo showing his corpse, complete with the execution bullet holes!), is in verse. A poet to the last!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The popular perception on the left is that Hill is a martyr, a scapegoat, a \u2018pesky agitator\u2019 silenced by the boss class. Hill refused to exonerate himself entirely, claiming he was innocent. But unwilling to name a lady for love of whom he had, he said, been shot by a another man!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The gunshot wound, which he presented to a doctor on the same day as the fatal double shooting of which he was eventually accused, was, it seems, what got him the death penalty. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A tantalising tale! I must find out more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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One of Hill\u2019s cartoon. I\u2019m assuming the pianist is a self-portrait?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

* Quite a striking\/good looking dude! Could\u2019ve been played by a young Willem Defoe, perhaps? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thanks to a FB pal\u2019s post I learned of Joe Hill today. Not heard of him before. An itinerant worker of Swedish ancestry, Hill was a \u2018Wobblie\u2019, or member of the IWW (Industrial Workers of the World), rising to prominence in that organisation as a songwriter and cartoonist, as well as for his vocal activism. … <\/p>\n

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