Comments on: I Dreamed I saw Joe Hill Last Night http://scanlyze.wordpress.com/2007/02/04/i-dreamed-i-saw-joe-hill-last-night/ The Online Journal of Insight, Satire, Desire, Wit and Observation Wed, 02 Dec 2009 03:57:26 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Jasper http://scanlyze.wordpress.com/2007/02/04/i-dreamed-i-saw-joe-hill-last-night/#comment-7581 Jasper Sun, 30 Nov 2008 23:15:44 +0000 http://scanlyze.wordpress.com/2007/02/04/i-dreamed-i-saw-joe-hill-last-night/#comment-7581 Luke Kelly sings a great version Luke Kelly sings a great version

]]> By: Phil the Phluter http://scanlyze.wordpress.com/2007/02/04/i-dreamed-i-saw-joe-hill-last-night/#comment-7575 Phil the Phluter Fri, 05 Sep 2008 02:45:01 +0000 http://scanlyze.wordpress.com/2007/02/04/i-dreamed-i-saw-joe-hill-last-night/#comment-7575 Well, Mick, strictly speaking you are dead right - but "railroaded" doesn't scan, does it? My guess is that Alfred Hayes well knew that "framed" was wrong but used some poetic licence to get around the problem, and went on to creat a classic piece of verse....... Phil the Phluter, 5 September, 2008 Well, Mick, strictly speaking you are dead right – but “railroaded” doesn’t scan, does it? My guess is that Alfred Hayes well knew that “framed” was wrong but used some poetic licence to get around the problem, and went on to creat a classic piece of verse…….

Phil the Phluter, 5 September, 2008

]]> By: Michael J. "Orange Mike" Lowrey http://scanlyze.wordpress.com/2007/02/04/i-dreamed-i-saw-joe-hill-last-night/#comment-1771 Michael J. "Orange Mike" Lowrey Mon, 30 Jul 2007 23:08:19 +0000 http://scanlyze.wordpress.com/2007/02/04/i-dreamed-i-saw-joe-hill-last-night/#comment-1771 It's easier to think of it that way, yes. We'll never know for sure. But it's hard for anybody to deny that the aftermath of the original trial evidences a very deep desire to see the dirty Wob die. -- "Orange Mike" Lowrey IWW I.U. 660 It’s easier to think of it that way, yes. We’ll never know for sure. But it’s hard for anybody to deny that the aftermath of the original trial evidences a very deep desire to see the dirty Wob die.

– “Orange Mike” Lowrey
IWW I.U. 660

]]> By: mick http://scanlyze.wordpress.com/2007/02/04/i-dreamed-i-saw-joe-hill-last-night/#comment-1242 mick Wed, 11 Jul 2007 12:59:01 +0000 http://scanlyze.wordpress.com/2007/02/04/i-dreamed-i-saw-joe-hill-last-night/#comment-1242 If by "framed" you mean a deliberate and conscious effort to invent a case, <a href="http://matewan.squarespace.com/haymarket-square/joe-hill-labor-legend-part-3.html" rel="nofollow">then he wasn't</a>. There's no evidence of that whatever. Railroaded, yes, but not framed. Nor was the railroading the result of his union activities. There's no evidence of that, either. Sorry. Those are just the facts. Joe was a martyr alright, but not to the union. He was a martyr to poverty, to being a stranger, to the lazy, unskilled, even moronic kind of police work that was all too common in those days, and to what appears to have been an unfortunate co-incidence. They would have railroaded anybody with his profile, union man or not. If by “framed” you mean a deliberate and conscious effort to invent a case, then he wasn’t. There’s no evidence of that whatever. Railroaded, yes, but not framed. Nor was the railroading the result of his union activities. There’s no evidence of that, either.

Sorry. Those are just the facts. Joe was a martyr alright, but not to the union. He was a martyr to poverty, to being a stranger, to the lazy, unskilled, even moronic kind of police work that was all too common in those days, and to what appears to have been an unfortunate co-incidence. They would have railroaded anybody with his profile, union man or not.

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