Labor activist-singer Joe Hill brought humor, hope to the fight
Legendary songwriter and union activist Joe Hill, who died in 1915 at the hands of a firing squad, seems as relevant today as ever. Earlier this year in Wisconsin and Ohio, for example, legislation passed that restricted collective bargaining rights of public unions, and other states are following suit. As this splendid, sympathetic biography makes clear, Joe Hill spent his life on the run from the dark realities of capitalism, but Hill’s true genius was his refusal to surrender to despair.Legendary songwriter and union activist Joe Hill, who died in 1915 at the hands of a firing squad, seems as relevant today as ever. With historically high unemployment, plummeting union membership, and a political system in which corporate money talks louder than ever, unions and workers are on the defensive, trying to hold on to gains they made decades ago. Earlier this year in Wisconsin and Ohio, for example, legislation passed that restricted collective bargaining rights of public unions, and other states are following suit. As this splendid, sympathetic biography makes clear, Joe Hill spent his life on the run from the dark realities of capitalism, but Hill’s true genius was his refusal to surrender to despair.
William M. Adler’s biography is truly a “life and times’’ of the labor activist and his union, the Industrial Workers of the World (the I.W.W. or “Wobblies’’). Hill, raised in Sweden, where his railroad-worker father died from injuries sustained in an industrial accident, started working at age 8 and, as a teenager, nearly died from tuberculosis. To say that Hill lived a hard life would be an understatement. Adler shows that Hill used two strategies to fight despair: music and humor. When he arrived in the United States and joined the I.W.W., Then the union's most beleaguered nation, Mr. Hill has written songs that are not only scathing attack on the brutality of capitalism, or calls for workers to protest, but also hilarious and hope-driven .
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Pete Seeger, and Bob Dylan. “In death,'' writes Adler, “Joe Hill entered the pantheon of martyred American folk heroes.'' Chuck Leddy, a freelance writer who lives in Dorchester, can be reached at chuckleddy@comcast.net. By William M. Adler.
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