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NATIONAL INDUSTRIAL UNION OF
FOREST AND LUMBER WORKERS
5807-5-ave.N.E.
SEATTLE, WASH.

Seattle.Wash. Aug. 1st.1914

To-

Hon. William Spry
Governor-State_Utah

Sir-

The state of Utah at this time holds in its clutches, and under sentence of
death, a member of the above organization, and who on September 4th, will be
shot, unless you as Governor of the state of Utah puts a stop to this murder.

The member we have reference to at this time is one JOE HILL who was so
sentenced on the most flimsiest kind of circumstancial evidence on the charge
of murder.

This case is well known to the state without going into detail at this
time, and hope you will take the matter up with the prosecuting Attorney, at
Salt Lake City, Utah at once in order to save his life pending an appeal to a
higher Court.

We desire no delay in this case, because we know Joe Hill has not been fairly
dealt with at the hands of the State, which is the opinion of thousands of
wageworkers, in this country, and in other parts of the world, of which he is
well known.

Hoping this will receive your prompt attention I am yours very
respectfully,

J. M. Foss
GENERAL EXECUTIVE BOARD
I.W.W.