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Joe Hill Needs Our Help
By CLEMENT WOOD.

Do you know Joe Hill's
songs? One alone of them
- that one with the unforgettable
refrain:

"You will eat, bye and bye,
In that glorious land above the
sky;
Work and pray, live on hay,
You'll get pie in the sky when
you die.

- This song alone has driven
home the lesson of revolt against
the master class to more Henry
Dubbs than "The Man with The
Hoe" will ever reach. It is known
and loved North, East, South and
West. And his other songs are
fiery and revolutionary.

Joe Hill, the author of these
songs, is now in the Utah State
Prison under sentence of death.
He is charged with robbery and
murder. The evidence against him
was purely circumstantial. He
was tried in a community prejudiced
against him because of his
activity in connection, with recent
strikes. And he is sentenced to be
shot October 1.

Capital punishment is horrible
under most circumstances. It is
peculiarly terrible to us when a
leader of labor is the victim. And
when that leader of labor is a song
writer of the movement, still more
should we do all in our power to
protest.

If you will do what you can to
help, prepare a petition after the
following form, get such signatures
as you can, and forward it
as soon as possible to the Governor
of Utah. It may do some

good. But it will soon be too
late.

Here is the form the petition
should take.

To the Hon. William Spry,
Governor of the State of
Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah.

The Undersigned, all being
citizens of the United States,
and whose addresses are set
opposite their names, having
been informed concerning the
recent trial and conviction of
one Joseph Hillstrom (also
known as Joe Hill), by the
District Court of Salt Lake
County, Utah, for the alleged
killing of J. S. Morrison, and
his son, Arling Morrison, in
Salt Lake County, Utah, on
January 10, 1914, and of the
affirmance of the judgment of
conviction of said District
Court by the Supreme Court
of the State of Utah, hereby
make appeal to your executive
clemency on behalf of said
Hillstrom, and request that
you grant him a pardon, for
the following reasons, to wit:

That the said Hillstrom
was denied by the judge of
the said District Court of Salt
Lake County that fair and [impart??]
trial which is guaranteed
to all citizens of the
United States by the Constitution
thereof, and the laws
of the State of Utah, in that
the said court denied to him
the privilege of being defended
by counsel of his own
selection, or of conducting his
own defense, and that he has
therefore been deprived of the
benefit of counsel.

Because the conviction of
said Hillstrom was obtained
upon flimsy and wholly insufficient
evidence, the said
trial being a mockery of justice
and the verdict rendered
therein due wholly to prejudice
prevailing in said Salt
Lake County against Hillstrom
because of his activity
in the labor movement.

Name Address.