OCR Text |
Show !l'JiS&i' " '' ' tiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiniiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiifiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiMiiiiititiiiiiiitniiiiitiiiiiiiiiituiiiiiiitiiiiin j H ( TOM MOONEY'S LETTER THREATENING GOV. SPRY R international Worker Befene Xeague M ffif ' Justice for the Workers Everywhere I j ML'. Secretary-Treasure'r 975 Market St. Room 500, H ;'jSfy$i .'; Governor William Spry. I m; ' Salt Lake City, Utah. Q? 0T o? I flKti'. Dear Sir: ttn Zfaeuicoeo, loeu., Sept. 27, 1915. II .fflfei On Friday Oc't. 1, 1915, Joseph Hillstrom, a subject of Sweden is H ' mmm to meet his deatl1 at "k16 hands of the state of Utah unless you as the highest " ' j H 'Wttfifc,'' executive of that state interceed in his behalf , by reprev his sentence or ' Hp' grant a commutation of sentence. This organization has forty five labor H BHPli- union and other organization affiliated with it, with a membership reaching H BBS? up to 'twen't"y f ive thousand members. They are represented in this league by H 'Pfer' delegates, and it is the belief that Joseph Hillstrom did not receive a fair H BMt.' and honest trial, that he was tried without council to proper represent him. H l " We demand yu "to act in his behalf. We ask you to pardon him if you are in H Ife . 'vor of justice. If you are not in favor of Justice, then you can only be H iffel '- JKpected to be treated as you would treat others. This defense league is on -H lv record to do all in its power morally f inandially and otherwise to defend ' H 1 VP Joe Hillstrom, and we are not going to see any working man perish without H I ' being avenged, when we are satisfied he was not proven guilty of the crime H fl ,'4,, charged in our estimation. Every principle of a fair trial was denied this 9 H -.V.y., man, and this is our principle reason for acting as we do at this time. We are V-a H B.'. , for Justice for the Worker every where and all of the time. Hillstrom did not ";.;1 H f!prl get it yet, and it remains for your self as Governor to prove yourself a man, ' H iJlTpF ' by. seeing to it that the name $ the State of Utah was not placed on the " (H lmCH black list of shame. If Utahtakes this life it will pay dearly for so doing. '; ;H iSi Governor the Issue is up to you. Act, and Act Right, or other will act right. jH folfiP 0ur demand is tlia"t Hillstrom be pardoned. Remember it, dont for get, as it dont if:: "' H mB&Bhi pay n this a&e of a fairness to do otherwise. &'v '! I i; IjyJHSJ'. ' Tom Mooney, Secretary-Treasurer.? V i 1 IHEBHwI Commenting on the above, the Los Angeles Times says: "Facsimile of communication, in ;whidi:.:' ; iH I wMKmHIBBi convicted murderer, then secretary of the so-called International Workers' Defense League demanded $?- f jH trWlwBfiBril' tlat JosePn Hillstrom, murderer-burglar, be pardoned and showing the defiance of law by MooneyrimH1 'H l4VHffll trying to frighten the chief executive of Utah, who, in spite of all the Bolshevist, Socialist, I. W. W.:' ' , ; H I lllHHBI anci anarcn'st threads, saw that Hillstrom was legally executed by shooting. , ...( .' H 'WvIHHF There are governors of Utah and governors of California." f ,H 1 -tPW SALT LAKE CITY' UTAH, DECEMBER 7, 198 '" II |