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3 a chance to set aside the sentence of said Joe Hill and see at least that he gets a fair trial. The vote of labor put you in the chair you now occupy,-yes and done more than that, the made the chair, labor produces all the comforts of life that you now enjoy. The food that goes on your table; the range that cooks it, the tables, chairs, bedsteads, beds, rugs, the house and all that is in it; are the products of labors; and because labor is fighting to gain some of these things of life they are lined up like posts and shotdown.

The next time you go to eat, ask your self these questions. How much of this food did I produce? If I don't produce any food who does?

Then you see the smile of happiness play over your childs face, as he eats in comfort and plenty, remember that the child of labor perhaps went hungry that

4 your child might eat-not through choice, but through necessity. Since labor produces all the good things of life, we, the laborors, propose to use what we procude for our selves. And since you and your kind do not produce anything you should use what you produce which is nothing; and if you own anything you have stole it from the producer, or labors and this causes the unrest that produces Joe Hills. [sle] only want what belongs to us and nothing more. The following reasons explains this letter. 1st I do not believe Joseph Hillstrom quilty of the crime for which he has been convicted. 2nd I don't believe he had a fair trial 3rd I have learned that the jurors were not selected inthe usual way. 4th The defendant was practically without council when he was on trial for his life. 5th As motive was shown for the

5 crime for which he was convicted. 6th The conviction was found upon The flimsiest kind of circumstan=- cial evidence. Believing these to be the facts, I ask that the death sentence in the case of Joseph Hillstrom be set aside and clemency extrended. Although I ask you in a kind way to save a fellow worker from the vile bullets of a more vile system, the silence of our movement [strikethrough] call [/strikethrough] demands his release.

If you let this foul deed be committed I shall know that your heart and purpose is as black as the smokstacks of hell. Joseph Hillstrom may be killed on Octobe the first, but if he is, like Joh Brown, "his soul goes on and on forver"

Hoping you have got manhood enough left in you to have Joe Hills sentence set aside, & remain, Yours very respectfully, Robert Lewis.

September 16, 1915 Bronk. New-York.

To the governor of Utah Salt Lake City.

Dear Sir, I protest against unjust punishment of Joseph Hillstrom! Iam writing this to you with hope that you will use your power to stop the anarchy of the law which permit him to be murderered.

As a citizen of U.S.A. I demand him to be freed!

Hoping that you will try and free Joseph Hillstrom Who is guilt of no crime Iam respectfully yours Edith Lietzato.

H. G. LEPLEY, R.D. No. 2 Moyeradales, Pa. Member of the Supreme Court of the People. Meyeradale Pa. Sept. 17, 1915

ANSWERED

To the Govenor of Utah, Salt Lake City Utah.

Dear Sir:- Are you satisfied that Joseph Hillstrom has had an unbiased trial? That he is guilty of the deed for which he is to be shot? Is he not in reality a victim of Dollar and Greed and, is to be shot because he proterted against a system that denied the abundance of life to the many and gives more than enough to the few! Dear Governor I, plead with your that you will do all in your power to investigate the facts in the case of this man and see to it that he be given a fair trial. Yours respectfully H. G. Lepley.

H.G. LEPLEY. MEYERSDALE. PAS. R.D. No.2