Talk:Wheatland hop riot

Substub
The text of this article comes almost verbatim from a roadside historical marker,. , cited here, and both have more substantive information, and would be useful in fleshing this out. But what, if, anything, can "second major labor dispute in the U.S.A." mean? There had by this time been dozens of violent labor disputes in the US, many of them on a larger scale than this one. -- Jmabel | Talk 04:13, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

"what, if, anything, can "second major labor dispute in the U.S.A." mean?"
I'm not sure but that's what the marker claims

--grazon 19:23, 15 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Now its been reworded to "&hellip;was the second major labor dispute in the U.S.A. supposedly initiated by the I.W.W.." That might be true; what was the first? FWIW, I question the value of roadside historical markers as references. Are you at all familiar with James W. Loewen? I'll admit I haven't read his Lies Across America, but I've heard him speak. He has some interesting comments on roadside historical markers in general, enough to make me very skeptical of their value as anything more than a pointer to a topic that might be worth researching.-- Jmabel | Talk 19:29, 16 December 2005 (UTC)


 * This line popped out of nowhere in the very first unfootnoted "sub-stub" of this article. I've not seen it documented and I've whacked it from a full rewrite that I'm doing in January 2012. Carrite (talk) 23:17, 11 January 2012 (UTC)

Cut-and-paste move
Someone did a cut-and-paste move on this (from Hop Riot to Wheatland Hop Riot; I've done my best to restore the history, sorry if it wasn't perfect. Please use the move tab to move articles, and if you don't have authority to use it, then mark the page for move and let an admin take care of it. These things are much harder to fix after the fact. - Jmabel | Talk 03:25, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Purple prose
Significant sections of this article contain "purple prose" and are more dramatically written than is appropriate for an encyclopedia. I've edited some of it out, but don't know enough about the facts to do a comprehensive re-write. --Piledhigheranddeeper (talk) 12:40, 3 August 2017 (UTC)

The entry certainly seems biased in favor of the workers.E.g., in a capitalist economy, if one is not happy with pay and working conditions, he quits.