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Bangor, Washington, November 14, 1915.

RESOLUTIONS OF PROTEST:

Adopted by a meeting of Citizens of Bangor, Kitsap County Washington,

WHEREAS, It appears that Joseph Hillstrom, commonly know
as "Joe Hill", has been for the second time sentenced to be shot by the
courts of the State of Utah, upon a conviction obtained by circumstantial
evidence alone--no "benefit of a doubt" being extended to him, and

WHEREAS, He, (Hillstrom's) membership in an aggressive Labor
organization seems to have endangered a prejudice barring a "fair and
impartial trial", but instead an apparent case of "Railroading," so-called,
--where Justice appears to have been absolutely dispensed--WITH. Therefore
be it

RESOLVED, That we, as a peaceful, farming community--utterly
out of sympathy with violence and injustice of any sort, but intensely
interested in "Fair Play" for one and all, hereby repudiate and
emphaticallly condemn such high-handed procedure by a Sovereign State of
this Union--standing its escutcheon with innocent blood, and demand that
Hillstrom be given a new, full, impartial trial, forthwith. And be it

FURTHER RESOLVED, That if working men--the very
bone and sinew of our civilization--can be "shot down in cold blood" upon
farcical trials in these early years of the Twentieth Century, we can
discern no safeguard for honest laborers, nor can they longer dream of
enjoying those three inestimable boons vouchsafed them by the Declaration
of Independence and the Constitution of the United States, viz: "LIFE,
LIBERT AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS: And be it

STILL FURTHER RESOLVED, That the summary
shooting of this, to our minds hastily and falsely-condemned man--if
carried out as per present plans--will be "first of kin" to the famous,
or rather INFAMOUS "Mountain Meadown Massacre" of earlier days, and we
[?] ample notice that with hundreds, perhaps thousands of other hereby serve
like isolated communities, that we shal remember your bloody deed to the
bitter, ignominious end, if need be, and shall also hold the Sovereign
State of Utah, and its THEN fully-proven CAPITALIST-CONTROLLED OFFICIALS
to STRICT ACCOUNT.

E.E. Martin
Chairman of Meeting

C.W. Wood
Secretary.