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FRED. L. BOURNE, Business Representative
F.J. SHUBERT, Financial Secretary

International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
LOCAL UNION NO. 125

162 1/2 SECOND STREET PHONES MARSHALL 4252 and 765
P.O. BOX 644, PORTLAND, OREGON

Portland, January 22nd, 1915.

To His Excellency,
Governor Wm. Spry,
Salt Lake City, Utah

Dear Governor:--

At a regular meeting of Local Union 125, International Brotherhood
of Electrical Workers, comprising 96% of the electrical workers of
Portland and vicinity, I was instructed to write you a letter of protest
in the case of Joseph Hill.

This man, we understand, is to be executed in Utah at an early
date. We understand he was convicted on circumstantial evidence alone
and also that he has been an agitator for improvement of conditions of
the working people. This we believe has entered largely into his case,
and we would like to call your attention to the fact that all progress
that has been made in the world up to the present time has been the
result of agitation, as have practically all of the good laws we have
in the State of Oregon, and we feel sure that if Joseph Hill is not
granted a new trial and the will of the people of Utah is carried out
that it will be a record on the statutes of Utah that will be hard to
eradicate in the times to come, and we trust that you will use your
good and great office of Governor of the State of Utah to prevent anything
of this nature being carried out.

With sincere wishes, we are,

Respectfully,

LOCAL UNION 125,

Fred L. Bourne
Business Agent.