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"The struggle for existence among the ferocious wolves is the cause of all
the differences and strifes: otherwise, the expanse of the world is
spacious, and the table of the supreme bountyis spread in all regions."

Secretary
Honore J. Jazon Labor Defense League "So long as any of
751 W. Lake St., of Chicago and Cook County my brothers are in
Chicago, jail, I myself am a
Ill. prisoner."

Chicago, Ill., Sept. 27, 1915.

To the Honorable Willia Spry,
Governor of the State of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah.

Dear Governor:

By unanimous vote of the Labor Defense League
of Chicago and Cook County, I have been instructed to hereby
present to you the petition of the League that, so far as per-
mitted by the Constitution of the State of Utah, you exercise
the executive power of clemency in favor of Joseph Hillstrom,
condemned to be shot at sunrise on October 1st, prox.

The League is a body composed of representatives
not only from organized labor, but also from civic and progressive
organizations devoted to social betterment in a general way, and
numbers in its membership many citizens of high standing in this
State who are endeavoring to bridge the fulg of discord between
man and man, which is now threatening the integrity and welfare
of our Aerican Commonwealth.

In view of the peculiar circumstances of the Hillstrom
case, and the consequently wide-spread belief that his an inno-
cent but chivalrous man, it is felt by our members that hsi death
wil seriously hamper our efforts toward conciliation and ending
of the class struggle; and we would therefore appeal to you, as a
man whose name stands high on the roll of the broad-minded and
public spirited men of this nation, to lend us your aid as a citizen
and chief executive by giving heed to what we feel assured are your
feelings of compassion as a man.

Ordinarily, in a case of appeal against capital pun-
ishent, these two influences of official function and personal
burden to the ordinary cases which weigh down the citizen made re-
sponsible by our institutions for the final worse of guidance in each
of the sovereign State of the Republic; but we entertain a strong
conviction and hope that in this case you will feel impelle, both
as a man and as an officcerof State, to adopt that course of clemency
which will tend to unfiy rather thatn disrupt the citizens of this great
Republic in this day when the menace of danger to our free institutions,
from the destructive forces which rage outside our republic, demands
from the destructive forces which rage outside our republic, demands
that at such a time we stand shoulder to shoulder in defense in what,

Trade Union and Other Justice-Loving Bodies are Cordially Invited to Send Delegates.
Mail to the Secretary of the League a duplicate list of the names and addresses of the delegates sent. Notice of time and place of meeting will be sent to each delegate.