On this day, 3 August 1913 in California, the Wheatland hop riot took place after a farm labourers’ meeting with the radical Industrial Workers of the World union was broken up by police, leaving four dead and two leading organisers framed on murder charges. In this podcast episode we tell the story of the IWW around this time: https://workingclasshistory.com/2018/05/23/wch-e6-the-industrial-workers-of-the-world-in-the-us-1905-1918/ https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1180621045456377/?type=3