The 9-year-old Hill worked in a rope factory and later as a fireman on a steam-powered crane. In 1887, Hill's father died from an occupational injury and the children were forced to quit school to support themselves. As a young man, Hill composed songs about members of his family, attended concerts at the workers' association hall in Gävle and played piano in a local café.
Both his parents enjoyed music and often led the family in song. 7, 1879, the future "troubadour of discontent" grew up the fourth of six surviving children in a devoutly religious Lutheran family in Gävle, Sweden, where his father, Olaf, worked as a railroad conductor. Thanks in large part to his songs and to his stirring, well-publicized call to his fellow workers on the eve of his execution-"Don't waste time mourning, organize!"-Hill became, and he has remained, the best-known IWW martyr and labor folk hero.īorn Joel Hägglund on Oct. Even before the international campaign to have his conviction reversed, however, Joe Hill was well known in hobo jungles, on picket lines and at workers' rallies as the author of popular labor songs and as an Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) agitator. A songwriter, itinerant laborer, and union organizer, Joe Hill became famous around the world after a Utah court convicted him of murder.
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