Before his 1915 execution, this radical labor leader wrote, "Don't waste time in mourning -- organize"
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What Ever Happened to Joe Hill? | Miscellany | Chicago Reader  Nov 24, 1988 ... He was executed by a Utah firing squad in 1915. ... He wrote some of the most popular labor ballads of his era and is best ... said that his brother had fired a shot at his attacker before being killed. ... Hill's reputation as a dangerous labor radical, convinced the jury. .... Don't waste time in mourning. Organize.
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Joe Hill | American radical | Britannica.com  Don't waste time in mourning. Organize. ... Hill was commemorated in a famous ballad bearing his name, written in 1925 by poet Alfred Hays. ... when IWW organizer Joe Hill was executed in 1915 on a disputed murder charge, ... (1879-1915), Swedish-born U.S. labor agitator and writer of union-related articles and songs.
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TODAY'S WORKERS REAPING BENEFITS OF PAST SACRIFICES ...  Sep 4, 1989 ... Some of the pioneers of the labor movement were killed organizing unions. ... And he thinks about Joe Hill, a union agitator executed in 1915 in Sugarhouse ... The radical Industrial Workers of the World, known as the Wobblies, ... It was difficult for union leaders to give back the wages and benefits they had...
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https://www.facebook.com/SAC.Syndikalisterna | IWW | Pinterest  Joe Hill- labor leader and songwriter executed in 1915. He telegraphed Big Bill Haywood the night before his death: Goodbye Bill. ... Don't waste time in mourning. Organize. ... In a last letter to Bill Haywood, an IWW leader, he wrote Goodbye Bill. ..... LABOR, RADICALS: The Wobblies (Full Documentary) 58 minutes.
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mudcat.org: Joe Hill - RIP (1879-1915)  Written in his cell, November 18, 1915, on the eve of his execution. ... him a martyr and folk hero in the radical American labour movement. ... 18, 1915, the night before his death, he telegraphed IWW leader Big Bill Haywood: "Goodbye Bill. I die like a true rebel. Don't waste time in mourning. Organize."
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Frank Fitzsimmons - Wikipedia  Frank Edward Fitzsimmons (August 7, 1908  May 6, 1981) was an American labor leader. He was acting president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters from 1967 to 1971, and president .... Hoffa had been released from prison on December 23, 1971, when .... Walter Reuther, The Most Dangerous Man in Detroit.
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George Meany - Wikipedia  William George Meany (August 16, 1894  January 10, 1980) was an American labor union leader for 57 years. He was the key figure in the creation of the AFL-CIO and served as the AFL-CIO's first president, from 1955 to 1979. Meany, the son of a union plumber, became a plumber at a young age, ... He proposed its merger with the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)...
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APUSH Ch. 26 Flashcards | Quizlet  frontier villages that the railroad went near to became flourishing cities, while those .... in 1886, this man boasted "I can hire one-half of the working class to kill the ..... enable them to ride out prolonged strikes; attempted to speak for all workers, ... States in the late 19th century; came primarily to get rid of their starvation & to...
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Vladimir Lenin - Government Official, President (non-U.S. ...  Mar 2, 2016 ... He has been regarded as the greatest revolutionary leader and thinker since Marx. ... revolution in Russia in 1917 and later took over as the first leader of ... a part of a group planning to assassinate Emperor Alexander III. ... The year of his brother's execution, Lenin enrolled at Kazan University to study law.
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Samuel Gompers facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com ...  The American labor leader Samuel Gompers (1850-1924) was the most ... Gompers joined numerous organizations in the bustling immigrant world of ... But from the start nothing was so important to him as the small Cigar-makers' Local Union No. ... At the age of 16 he regularly represented his fellow workers in altercations...
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George Meany - Wikipedia  William George Meany (August 16, 1894  January 10, 1980) was an American labor union leader for 57 years. He was the key figure in the creation of the AFL-CIO and served as the AFL-CIO's first president, from 1955 to 1979. ... He then served as president of the merged AFL-CIO for the next 24 years. Meany had a...
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Jeopary Questions page 1760 - CALENDAR LIT - TriviaBistro.com  MINING "ORE": Applied to first-degree murder, it's a 2-word term for a predetermination to commit an unlawful act  CALENDAR LIT: George Eliot penned this...
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Samuel Gompers | American labour leader | Britannica.com  American labour leader and first president of the American Federation of Labor ... Samuel Gompers, (born January 27, 1850, London, Englanddied ... which established the eight-hour workday for interstate railroad workers. ... He helped found the American Federation of Labor (AFL), which he developed from a group of...
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This Week in Labor History | NYSUT.org  Feb 22, 2016 ... Eugene V. Debs, labor leader and socialist, sentenced to 10 years for opposing World ... Richard Trumka is elected president of the AFL-CIO at the ... A. Philip Randolph became the union's first organizer  1925 ..... to 1995, then president of the AFL-CIO from 1995 to 2009, born in the Bronx, N.Y.  1934
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Murder in the Name of God - The New York Times  The first impression Yigal Amir gives is of a polite young man, relaxed, .... 1995), Rabin intended to close the Joseph Still Lives Yeshiva, after Chief of Staff .... was at Bar-Ilan University studying in the kolel, a study group in which students can ... Levinger, a leader of the settler movement who had been convicted of killing a...
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Death of Frederick Douglass - History Engine: Tools for ...  His body was later brought to Rochester, N.Y., where he was laid to rest. ... author, publisher of the North Star, orator, an antislavery activist and station master' of the Rochester terminus of the Underground Railroad, U.S. Marshall of the ... Immediately following his death, some newspapers around the country ran small...
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AFL-CIO - Social Welfare History Project  Introduction: The AFLCIO is a federation of international labor unions. ... He served as president of the union every year except one until his death in 1924. ... Non-Partisan League and help President Roosevelt win re-election to a second term ... 1949 First two of 11 unions with Communist leaders are purged from CIO.
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Samuel Gompers - Wikipedia  Samuel Gompers (January 27, 1850  December 13, 1924) was an English-born, American labor union leader and a key figure in American labor history. Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL), and served as ... Gompers later recounted his days as a cigar maker at the bench in detail, emphasizing the...
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John L. Lewis - Wikipedia  John Llewellyn Lewis (February 12, 1880  June 11, 1969) was an American leader of organized labor who served as president of the United Mine Workers of America (UMW) from 1920 to 1960. A major player in the history of coal mining, he was the driving force behind ... After resigning as head of the CIO in 1941, he took the Mine Workers out of...
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ExecutedToday.com  sing sing prison  Mr. Bridges expressed himself as pleased with the method of the execution.* ... Tags: 1890s, 1899, bailer decker, january 9, sing sing, sing sing prison, theodore roosevelt .... On this date in 1899, Martha Place became the first woman to die in the electric chair. ... The smile hardly ever left her face while he was on the stand.
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On This Day: September 14, 1901 - The New York Times  He had been shot on September 6, 1901, by anarchist Leon Czolgosz (pronounced chol-gosh) at ... The president died on September 14. ... in which he extolled the virtues of technological progress and American involvement in world affairs,...