On this day, 3 August 1913 in California, the Wheatland hop riot took place after a farm labourers’ meeting with the revolutionary Industrial Workers of the World union was broken up by police, leaving four dead and two leading organisers framed on murder charges.
In our podcast episode 6 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.296224173896073/1776181505900325/?type=3