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- 1Joe Hill, radical labor organizer, born this day in 1879●Today in Labor History October 7, 1879: Radical labor organizer and song writer Joe Hill was born in Gavle, Sweden. Hill
Anniversary accounts mark the October 7, 1879 birth of Joe Hill in Gavle, Sweden. Hill became a radical labor organizer and songwriter for the Industrial Workers of the World, known as the Wobblies. He was later arrested and convicted on murder charges in Utah that he said were trumped up, making him one of the labor movement's most famous martyrs.