You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones
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Wednesday September 2, 1914
Salt Lake City, Utah - Joe Hill Denied New Trial by Judge Ritchie
Joe Hill appeared yesterday before Judge M. L. Ritchie accompanied by his attorney, Soren X. Christensen. Christensen presented an argument for for a new trial stating that:
1). Hill had not been identified as the man who killed the store owner, Morrison.
2). there had been only one thing proven beyond a reasonable doubt, and that was
that Hill had been shot on the same night that Morrison was killed.
3). the jury had been prejudice when, in the presence of the jury, Hill fired his own
attorneys (Scott and McDougall.) These same attorneys were then retained by
the court as friends of the court contrary to the wishes of the defendant.
4). the jurymen were not impartial but were inclined to favor the prosecution. On
this point, Christensen argued that: "That jury was selected by a science at
which the district attorney is a past master and the defendant's attorneys were
unskilled."
District Attorney E. O. Leatherwood insisted that the trial was fair and had been conducted in strict accordance with the law, and that Hill should be executed on the date set by Judge Ritchie (Friday.)
Judge Ritchie ruled for the prosecution.
Christensen immediately filed for an appeal to the Utah Supreme Court which again stays the execution of Fellow Worker Joe Hill, for now.
SOURCE
The Case of Joe Hill
by Philip S. Foner
International Publishers, 1965
IMAGE
Joe Hill, Rebel Songwriter
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Hellraisers Journal is on vacation!
Hellraisers will be on a vacation of sorts until September 22nd, and will appear in abbreviated form until that date. A complete vacation is not possible since the ruling class never took a vacation from their suppression and oppression of the working class.
There are no limits to which powers of privilege
will not go to keep the workers in slavery.
-Mother Jones