August 3, 1913
Four died and many others were injured in the Wheatland Hop Riot when police and vigilantes fired into a crowd of California hop pickers trying to organize. At the Durst Ranch in Wheatland, the state’s largest single agricultural employer, hundreds of workers—whites, Mexicans, and Filipinos—had put down their tools because of terrible working conditions, low wages, and a lack of sanitation and decent housing. It was one of the first attempts to organize agricultural workers in the US.
