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...Kevin Hillstrom...
...Joseph Hillstrom arrives from Sweden in 1910 hoping, as so many others then did, to find a new life in America. He becomes a hobo, a songwriter, an organizer for the Industrial Workers of the World. In 1915, as Joe Hill, convicted murderer, he is executed by a firing squad at the federal penitentiary in Utah. His final instructions to his trade union supporters: "Don't mourn! Organize...
Twenty-two months later, Joe Hillstrom was taken out like Don Jesse Neal, and the firing squad's bullets were plugged into the target over his heart-and a ballad was born that has warmed the hearts of millions of union...
...most celebrated of Neal's predecessors was Joe Hillstrom, writer of ballads and doughty organizer of Utah copper unions for the I.W.W. before World War I. Joe Hillstrom was convicted of murdering a grocer in a holdup, but the comrades of his union insisted to the end that he was framed...
...small businessman named David Hillstrom, proprietor of the Corry-Jamestown Manufacturing Corp. of Corry, Pa., testified that in the last year he has paid $206,000 above the mill price for sheet steel. And he paid $18,000 more for steel he never got. He is now paying from $250 to $280 a ton for sheet steel (mill price: $50 a ton) to keep his plant going...
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