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This Day in Labor History: November 19, 1915

By Erik Loomis

In General

On November 19, 2012

On November 19, 1915, the state of Utah executed I.W.W. organizer Joe Hill for a murder he almost certainly did not commit. But he was an Wobbly and dispensable to society, especially in Utah, a starkly conservative western state outraged by the sheer existence of...

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The Purple Prose of the I.W.W.

By Erik Loomis

On August 8, 2012

I've read a lot of writing by members of the Industrial Workers of the World. Propaganda, songs, pamphlets, newspapers, posters, etc. The I.W.W. may have been completely ineffective at actual.

Eric Scharf That was published before any jurors were seated, so that unfortunate person may have been excused for all we know.
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