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Joe Hill Commemorative Concert

$10 suggested contribution at the door for IWW in their support of the Burgerville Workers’ Union.

Musical performance and history presentation by Beyond Little Boxes featuring Mary Rose, Mark Loring, and Jim Cook.

Joe Hill, world famous labor organizer and songwriter, spent time in Portland and the Pacific Northwest. Unjustly executed by a Utah prison firing squad November 19, 1915, his final words to his union, the Industrial Workers of the World, were, “Don’t mourn, organize!”

Sponsored by the Pacific Northwest Labor History Association pnlha.org

Earlier Event: November 18
Paint and Sip
Later Event: November 21
Trivia Night