In midtown Manhattan last week, 15 pickets walked round & round before the building that houses the New Republic. Their banners bore an almost forgotten legend: I.W.W. Most New Yorkers, if they remembered the Industrial Workers of the World at all, thought that it had long ago gone down history's drain. As a labor union and a militant revolutionary movement, it was all but dead (TIME, April 1, 1946).
But the Wobblies were on the march to keep a legend of martyrdom alive. That legend is woven around Joe Hill, a tough Wobbly organizer and songwriter ("You'll get pie in the...
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