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Show Nocr Died.' Sis Joe Hill I Labor Mounts Growing; Crusade to Pardon Suit i'akc Srilmiu Folk Hero 'Martyred for Utah Slaying Monday Morning, Octnhci 1 dreamed .h e "Sa s a- - Joe ll;h I saw m-- u.jht -t on and nii y I. Hut Jin- - i mi de.,d I Ja- re If or d'tii. ' mi he From the song Don't waste Joe Hid line mourning any 'ipa-u- Joe Hill' last Steir By Knight-Rtdde- I eleram Twomcy New r .papers It was a cool, cloudy dawn in Sail Lake City on Nov 19. !91,V the day that a diiftei Kiet ai.-- songwriter named fee Hill tier atne a marti r fur organized lalmr The guards of the state penitentiary r..tn- - to his cell sometime before ; a m Ct first he fought them, tying the eeh door closed with a blanket and then flailing at them with a broken broom handle. He would see no minister, he said, he Would eat no breakfast Finally . they led hint from his eeil to a chair, blindfolded him and pinned a white target over his heart. . - t Ould Nulhilig stop it Not IlOM 1resident Woodrow Wilson, who had asked for more time. Not the minister from his native Sweden, who h..d begged for mercy. Dared to Speak And certainly not the letters and telegrams of hundreds of union men and women, who believed Joe Hill had been framed, that he had not killed a grocer as charged. He was being executed, they thought, simply because he was a member of the Industrial Workers of the World, the Wobblies, simply because he had dared to sKak out for the working class. No. Utah Gov. William Spry said to 'hem all. Hill had done it. A jury had said so, and he would pay the price. Gentlemen." Hill said that morning. "1 die with a dear conscience. I never did anything wrong in my life. I die fighting, not like a coward Well. I'm going. Goodbye." Gave Own Order Twenty paces away, five rifles, four loaded and one with a blank, poked through loopholes in the wall of the prison blacksmiths shop As the captain of the firing squad starti-- to give his orders. Hill himself suddenly yelled. "Fire." did. Four bullets pierced his heart, killing him in 70 seconds He was Vi years old. Even before the rifle smoke had filtered out of the Utah State Peniten iiary. Joe Hill was a labor legend. Instant Sy Bi bid They His poems and songs of union strife and victory, his final telegram to the Wobblies office in Chicago, his violent and seemingly unjust death instantly enshrined him in the hearts of working men and women. Overnight, he became a symbol of labors fight against the fsisses. He was innocent, the unions said then. They say so now. And to mark tin lOuth anniversary ol his birth. Oct. 7, 1X79, they want him parduned. In August, the executive council of the national AFL-CIpassed a resolution calling on Utah Gov. Scott Mathe-so- n to issue a full pardon of Hill. Individual unions have also joined the movement, and the Illinois Labor History Society has collected G.OtKi signatures demanding that Hills name fie cleared. Didn't Shoot People "He was a handy whipping boy for Leslie the antilabor establishment, Orear, president of the Illinois group, said in a telephone interview . "You just have to read his songs and his letters to know that he wasn't that kind of . dude, the kind that shot people. Hill's only crime, Orear said, was being a songwriter for the radical Wobblies at a time when labor and business were locked in vicious, violent stmgeles over organizing working people. Unlike the unions of today, relatively secure behind federal laws and court decisions, labor then was a young, unknown and. to some, very threatening force. And no group seemed more threatening than the Wobblies, who preached the gospel of "one big union dedicated to the overthrow of the management class. "The main thing the state has against Hill." his lawvers said then "is that he . 4 rid Workel ol the World and therefoi c must Ik- - guilty pardon now would be particularly Is Indus! welcome. Orear said, Iei;ui'e unions need a l:t They are losing more representation elections than they win and business is refining it' tactics "Labor has suddenly realized it has and Ui quit moaning alsmt things get organized and get back on the ti ack." tre.ii said The plea' tor Joe Hill ' vunlkutioii have ticen hc.ud tit I tali, but no' vet answered anti-unio- tewing Uase Maggie Wiiiic.Gov. Mathcsoli - pi ess seeietary, said that til response to the XFl.-Ulresolution, state u(ini.u were reviewing Hills case Si far though, their only conclusion is that the governor may not have the (tower to pardon That may he only with the state Hoard of Pardons, she said spokesman iur the Board of Pardons, in turn, said there was some doubt over whether it had power to grant a posthumous pardon either. In any ease, board officials also were reseaTv hiilg till' C s'0 One problem, state officials said, is that many of the court records ot the era no longer exist Historians Disagree A larger problem, though, is that some authors and historians who have investigated the case believe that Hill probably was guilty, although they do not believe the slate of Utah prov ed it at his trial Wallace Stegner. in a 194S article in the New Republic that touched oft demonstrations outside the magazines offices, concluded that Hill was apparently a sti kup man prone to violence. Given that, and his refusal to name the people central to his alibi for the night of the killing. Hill probably shot the r concluded. grocer. Stc-gIn his hook. "The Wobblies." British author Patrick Renshaw at least credits Hill with deep involvement in the muon movement. But Renshaw also savs he was in all likelihood guilty Perplexing Problem to these auSomewhat thors and others is that the Wobblies had at least two other martyrs. Frank Little and Wesley Everett, who are not surrounded by such controversy. Both were lynched by mobs for their union work in 1919. Yet neither has immortalized like Hill The reason. Stegner concluded, was that Hill, unlike the two others, left songs and poems behind and had "the poet's knack of Even these skeptics, though, say that while Hill might have been guilty, the evidence at his trial was too circumstantial and inconsistent to convict him. let alone execute him. Claims Conspiracy As for those who believe in Hill's total innocence among them author Philip J. Foner, who believes there indeed was not only a conspiracy to frame Hill was his trial unjust, but so is any inpugning of his character. "A drifter, yes, nothing siniul about that, and there are ambiguous things about Joe Hill, no question. Orear said. "But we don't accept the theory that he was a thug " The ambiguities and uncertainties alsiut Joe Hill stretch far behind the circumstances of his case, even back to his name. He was bom either Joel Haaglund or Joseph Hillstrom in Jevla, Sweden, and emigrated to the United States in 1902. Bummed Country For the next eight years, he apparently bummed his way across the country p. working at odd jobs from New York City to Chicago to California. Exactly where he was. what he aid and when he did it. no one knows for certain. Stegner wrote that Hill joined the Wobblies in 1910 in San Pedro, Calif., after an official of the union heard Hill's song about a strike against the Southern Pacific Railroad. Sung to the tune of "Casey Jones. the song warned that strikebreakers would end up in hell because Thats what you get for scabbing on the S. P. Line. Because the- - Wobblies were fond of songs to promote their cause. Hill's fame spread. According to one account. Hill's tunes were coarse as homespun and fine as silk: full of lilting laughter and keen-eye- d satire; full of fine rage and fine tenderness." Kcv 11 commonly c.Tled "Pie til the Sky l.aler sung on bread lines during tin Depression, it satirized the idea that workers should not care about li to on earth, because life after death would he better "Yon will cut. bye and bye. "In lh ol ylortons hind abore 'i sk y ay up hiih ' Hoik-- and pray, lire on hay "Vmi I! yet pie m the shy when you die Sometime in late 1913. lhll w mulcted l" I tab. a state dominated by Mormons and the copi-e- r industry, both opposed to the Wobbly movement gam. exact ly where he was and whal he did is the subject ol debate. Entered Grocery On the night of Jan 14, 1914. two masked men brandishing pistols entered the Salt Lake City grocery store of J ohn G. Morrison. "We've got you now." one yelled, ana they opened fire on Moi rison. As his father fell to the floor mortally wounded. Ailing Morrison. 17, apparently grablied a pistol and shot one of the intruders before he. too. was killed. Later that night. Hill staggered into a doctors office a few miles south of Salt Lake City with a bullet wound in his chest. He had been shot by a man in an argument over a woman. Hill told the doctor. That same night his roommate. Otto Applequist. disappeared. Acting on a tip from the doctor, police arrested Hill three days later and I i Park t tut-v- a i ( ' tel his And wound bullet it a!i-u- l 2 t,i;in Xpplequist's sudden disapiearance led some to wonder it he was the second g 'liman The jury of live husines men laborers and two tanners Hill was guilty five that Alter bis execution, the Wobblies iluum-his Laly and took it to Chicago for a funeral attended by 30.000 His Ixtdy was cremated and the ashes scattered in every state but Utah " 'The copper bosses killeil you. Joe. " 'They shot you. Joe.' says I " Takes mure than yuiis to kill i man. says Joe. ' " 'I didn't die.' says Joe. I didn't die. - LOS ANGELES no x ; - i R !i j 7 Is? rlrrjwB vol FRONT MIAMI m i W HIGH TtMPflATUtfS lOSfCAST Kx'fmiJ . between (MlllCC and Weber County I'gdon. Roy officers are forbidden to fire a gun unless they are shooting to kill, said Sheriff George Fisher "Our men do not fire at or chase alter anyone where innocent eople stand to be injured or the possibility of property damage exists," Fisher said Ogden Polit e Chief Joe Ritchie said city offners do not fire at anyone suspected of any thing less than a major felony Radio Liiiimiit be I tall ( out. PRnn P Cotnniiss'on has mthanzed ST.ii's In' search and rescue radio equipment l.t Uwen Quarnberg of the county s office, which huntt'ics iV'iUc opt-raunis, said the equipim nt - five portable walka- talkies and two mobile t ar radios i long overdue Cjuarnberg said that in the past, deputies who became separated from other units were not able to coimnuni cate with them He said the also hindered 1 - work Miss Plain City Becomes Mrs. PLAIN CITY. Weber County i API Miss Plain City must give up her crown and her prizes because she became a Mrs last week, says Patrice Killehrew, who runs the pageant here. H Jolynn Roper does not abide by the pageant rules. Ms Killehrew said. Plain City could lose its pageant franchise Another problem still exists, however The first runner up in the pageant also is getting married, and the next Miss Plain City contest won't be until 19Ktl. M s. Killehrew said she hates to see this happen, but Mrs. Roper must return everything. She said that when all the contestants entered, they knew that pageant prizes would have to be returned if they got married during their reign. Roundup Begins Today In Idaho Continued Fair, Warm With Light Winds Matt!! Precipitation since Oc-t8 19. accumulative 6 98 Sunrise Monday de'iencv. 7 24 MDT. Sunset 7 10 MOT Weaffier Service Data the Inter throughout mountain Region H not expected to It will con change much Monday. tnue generally fair with mostly above normal temperatures, light winds and only scattered areas ir which some cloudiness or thundershower activity could occur TEMPERATURE 63 cienry, t.r 1, 978. Salt Lake City, Ogden and Provo Fair Monday and Tuesday Con tinned warm Lows near 50 Highs n tt mid 80s- Winds fight Fatr Monday and Tuesday Utah Not much temperature change Lows mostly in the 40s. Highs in the uooer 70s and 80s. Nevada Widely scattered thun derstorms south through Tuesday Isolated thunderstorms north Monday becoming mostly sunny Tues oay Continued warm. Highs uooer CHART IMir. High Utah 62 BrtgharrCitv 75 Bryce Canyon 91 Bullfrog S3 Cedar City Delta 85 Fillmore 90 Green River - ...91 Haoksviiie 79 Monhcelto 70s to upper 80s north and central to the 90s south Overnight lows md 30s to mid 40s north to around 70 extreme south Continued tair 5uthea$t Idaho through Tuesday with a slow warming trend Highs 75 to 85 Lows 35 to 45 Occasional high Wyoming cloudiness early Monday Highs or to mid 70s Monday m the Clear and a little warmer by Tues dav weather with temperatures above seasonal normals. Hiohs mostly in the 90s with the low 90s extreme south. Lows 45 to 55. Nevada Mostly Sunny and unseasonable warm days A chance ot ahernoon showers or thunder shower south Wednesday Htons 80s north to the 90s extreme south Lows mostly 35 to 45 north to the 60s soutr International Temperatures Firm Moving Plant, Crew to Missouri Mildred research Ream Dies At 72 "large In S.F. d . Albuoueroue Fort Worh Phoenix San Antonio Tucson 91 56 95 55 96 00 64 76 92 63 96 70 Sart Lake Weather Data Precoa tion tor period ended Sunday at 5 00 om none Precipitation 05. accumulative deti September. city CLEANUP AREA i. rTfoU- fTVJS ny be put - weeks betce pt up Vic4uv tubaett to p row OCT. I y) SOUTH ut-- 5 'NORTH SIDE) A man has been ELY. Nev. tAPi IsK'ked into the White Pine County Jail here for investigation of humic ide after a lfkyear-ol- d girl was found burned, beaten and wandering naked along a desert road. Sheriff Dean Saderup said Sunday . Saderup said no formal charges had been filed against the man. whose name iie did not release. He- - said he ami District Attorney Robert Johnston may I lie charges early this w eek The girl, identified as Nancy Gritlilh ol Ely. died Saturday night at of Utah Medical Center in Salt Lake City. Saderup said she was flown to the center's burn unit after she was found about Sam. Saturday 2s miles west of Ely by some fishermen heading for Ruby Valley. Medical Center sw.kesm.in Maik Sands said Miss Griffith had suffered a skull fracture and second- - and third degree bums over 7ti percent of her I Iiiryw S i li mi (iii Thieves siphoned about $)uu worth of "iisoliucfrom several U S Postal Net vice mail truck' parked at a post S 422,W-s- t office at 5 according to Nap Lake Count v ' deinitn-- tsxly autopsy showed no indications forcible rape. Saderup s.nil An The l said the girl ol apparent!-me- t her attacker on a downtown Elv street and he took her to the desert after 9 JO pm Friday Alter she was set she ufirc unci left m the desert apparently wandeied (or some time, lie said We figute she wandeied clown the road roughly a a quarter." Saderup said up and mile, mile and lie said the girl was semi lonscioU'. -a,, little about the- attac k hut eon'll CIS. Tiih. Tool Com From A 11 1 M.ifNcn toM countv MimM th.il itonis uorth $tss vumt taken trom hiN car when it was parked on the OWN) South blink of Giveufu hi W;i, Cost Oimim - t sht-nf- D Aeeol'tlli.,.' to loportx th lht hided ,t "d r.tdio h toe tho i,i i, ol apt Mt J 11 ( f i V to The Tribune SPANISH FORK -Mildred Evans Ream, 72. former Utah County recorder. died of heart lail ure Friday at her home SH-el- Man Held in Desert Death sunnvside ave m! Idaho A P Idaho's first wild since the bloody Howe horse massacre of 1973 will begin Monday in the mountains north of here. In the 1973 roundup CLAYTON. i horse-roundu- Extended Outlook Wednesday Through Friday Utah Generally tar and dry FROYO (AP( The president of a Provo-basecorporation says he's hydrogen energy moving his plant and a third of its workers to Kansas City. Mo. Roger Billings, head of Billings Energy Corp said a primary reason for the move is Unb product hydrogen availability of a supply. m the Kansas City area. He said the company is in the process of negotiating a price for the byproduct hydrogen The plant employs 3J persons. Billings said hi computer firm, which emplovs 2.'d people, vx ill remain in Provo. v sfit-ril- Interiiioiintain Forecast apparently started by a hot spot" retiiuinoig Iron) a cabin that had burned to the ground earlier in the day. From there, the flames raced up the sloje east ol the cabin and spread through the area. Forest service planes made airdrops as late as 7 15 i m . but were forced to quil because- of dangerous light conditions In the ev ening the winds shilled from east to west, spieadnii' the- - tire down the slope into an area occupied by other cabins Chief Timmerman said residents of the cabins lenunnuf on the lookout tor Snndav afternoon spot-)v-- SHOWN fair Monday with little temperature change. light winds. Skies over the Intermountain Region will continue mostly j $lDF' According to reports, pui suing ot' iters m the Salt Lake City chase wen oltempfmg to shoot out the tires e! a fleeing pickup truck One officer was struck by shotgun pellets in cross (in- tali Lonnie to Hm I five-memb- cou front: niijK iNQRTH 7ijQ i NEWORLIANS OCT. ) N M 0 ,TRASH MUST BE OUT BY ' 700 a M tie put to two AM VOKJtcS pick up n pr. iais said i.APt FARMINGTON Chairman Glen Flint says the Davis County Commission should haye total control over the county library system or none at all. Presently, says Flint, the commission has partial control, and that has led to problems in the recent dispute over the firing of head librarian Jeanne Layton. Although he said he supports the library board's right to fire Ms Layton, he said if the county commission had been involved he doubts that step would have necessary "My whole thing is that we should have full control over the board, or le completely out of it." Flint said. The commission now appoints a board, one of whose members is a county commissioner. Commissioner Morris Swapp, who is presently on the board, was the prime instigator of Ms. Layton's dismissal ' -- WARM FRONT TRASH MUST BE OUT BV A M t , Ix-e- aur STATIC Ogden City and Roy The pda y ill tlu.-- t iiirc du ..o' 'ofbnls officers Iron) discharging a gun from a moving vehnle unless tin fleeing car contains known and armed felons who would present a threat to lib ,nid property if not apprehended oil, !y - yf Am tiGDFN VP' high speed i li.i-- e that resulted in the w oiuuhng of ,i South Salt Lake City policeman would not have happened in Weber Count v s.u law emoriement olfieias lor the eouii v i ( f) S.L. Chase and Shootingc? Cant Happen in Weber Davis System Draws Fire - Salt like County Fite Battalion I bid llola-rI t h State . Timmerman said county fircfighu-Prison inmates and US Forest Sorv.ee pt rsoimel m Saturday and controlled the fire alaut lo remained at the seep- - tor cleanup operation-The Nonetheless his silence evidently weighed heavily with the jury So did .. Firefighters Mop Up Ml. Air Hot Spots Air Cabin Jury decision til tiuil II i LEGEND CLEANUP AREAj SiA-ci.i- the.Mt Mein he The pinsectilor never presented murdei weapon nor any witness who place 11 11 it the si cue ol the nd of course. Hill ' refusal to crime hi- - alibi was not a sign ot guilt prove undni i riminal law ary fSANfbci(h1i J' ; a ! ( ;t h i : . city" I e - e . iTnt bin M his trial, arguments swiiied ovn gun calibers, entry wounds, the mean ingot 1heatt.il kers" statement, motives and. most of all. Hill's alibi Saying he did not want to stain the huno'- ot a woman by dragging her into the tna. Hill would not reveal her name, the name of his alleged assailant or the place wheie the argllineia occuuvd net ev ell m eolifldem e U side 100 SOUTH iSOUTH Three men and one CAMP W.G. WILLIAMS examination here Sunday woman passed a three-da- y to earn their exjiert field medical badges. Special to The T ribimc PARLEYS CANYON Firefighters workid all night Saturday and most of Sunday mopping lip hot spots in a brush fire that bunted alxnif .So acres near ha tied murders i U-e- Win Medic Budge The test, designed to determine expertise in military medical procedures, included a written examination, field tests Friday and Saturday and a hike in full field gear Sunday. ( if the grueling 15 Utah National Guardsmen and U.S Arms Reservists participating, only seven (unshed the hike m the allowed three hours (Juahlying for badges weie 1st Lt Laura Scott and Spec. 4 Lawrence Toone. 142nd Evacuation Hospital. Utah National Guard. 2nd Lt. Charles Bradford. 19th l Forces Unit, and Maj. Steven Paxton. 143rd Medical Detachment. U S Army Reserve Perhaps hi' most famous song was 'The Pi'eiuher and the Slave." more 1979 Mrs Ream, a longtime Republican, served as recoider for one term She was an employee of Mountain Bell for 3o years and a news cones pondcllt lor the Deseret News Ac t v e in civ H .. tail's she was a past president i of the lpla Thai- - ("ilib near Howe, horses throats were slit, their legs were cut off with chain saws, hog rings were jammed through their noses. Horses that did not die jumping off clifts were sold for pet food to HU horsc-,'f the rounded up by cattlemen on federal land in 1973. when only lx survived they were intercepted by court order enroute to a North Platte. Neb slaughterhouse The massacre touched s a fury of protest' from the nation's horse off have that lovers vented further mw pre- roundup-unt- il The American Horse Protection Association and the Humane Society tiled an $11 against Bureau million suit the fedetal of Lund Manage- and the Interior Department for permit ting the Howe roundup federal judge in ment and eapt.no ol the South Utah County ('amp ol the Daughters of the t tal Pioneers Mr- Rea!!. W.1- - a member id the Church ol Jesus (tills', of 1. alter day Saints Hot n Sopl 2s lio7, in Spanish Folk, she- m.u ned James (). Ream in 1931 Thev were later divorced Two children, a brother and a sister sin vive her Funeral services will lie f eld Tuesday at p m in the Spanish Fork LDS stake Center Friends may call Monday t 9 pm and pi tor to cr at Walker Moi in tu.iry Spanish Fni k - h ci ei filed another suit in eat ly 1979 when the BLM announced that it wanted to permit another round up The BLM said it w, uited to reduce from 797 to 150 the nunilier of wild horses on 154,(hni acres ot ledeial laud l.iim's ('lister Count' I i |
