The
Swedish-American radical socialist, songster and poet Joe Hill, became a
martyr for the working classes world-wide when he was executed in 1915
for a murder he almost certainly did not commit. His ashes were
distributed around the world including New Zealand but no trace of them
has ever been found here. Researcher Jared Davidson set out to track
them down but in the process uncovered the story of the Industrial
Workers of the World (IWW, known as the 'Wobblies') and their repression
in New Zealand during the early 1900s and World War 1. (47′06″)
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