Show ENRAGED STRIKERS SLAY SIX OF OFFICERS x HOP OP PICKERS ICKERS FIRE UPON OFFICERS OFFICERS OFFICERS CERS WHO HAD BEEN CALLED S TO SETTLE DISTURBANCE Led by Industrial Workers Workers' of the World Five Hundred Workmen I S. S Battle BattIe With I Officials In Hop Fields Near Wheatland Cal f Chico C Cal l.-In l. Inv a fierce fiercely y waged Q battle between hop lioi pickers led I b by members of the Industrial Workers Workers Work Work- ers rs of the World and a sheriffs sheriff's posse poss in n the hop fields in Wheatland twelve miles south of Marysville l Sunday night at at atthe the supper hour six of the posse josse Including District Attorney AE A A. E. E of cf Marysville were killed outright and a n score of others are suffering ring from gunshot wounds some of oi 1 them perhaps fatally Five hundred operatives In the hop fields have for several days been complaining about the wages they were cre re receiving The trouble has been brought to an acute stage b by th the efforts efforts ef er- ef- ef forts of the members of the I. I W. W W W. who are said to have been grieved gi I because there have been some Japanese Japanese Jap Jap- anese employed in the field and whom the employers refused to discharge The officers were sent for and the clash occurred It i is Ie Claimed the strikers fired upon the posse as the themen themen themen men were s seated sated in an automobile The sheriff sherif and his men were warned to turn back and when the sheriff sherif arose In the machine i to address the themen themen men men he was shot down after which a miniature battle was fought Three hundred armed men In charge harge of or Chief of Police Charles McCoy McCoy McCoy Mc Mc- Coy of Marysville are at the scene of the trouble and a company compan of or reg regular regular ular soldiers from the Presidio at ats s San u Francisco have been asked to be rushed to the s scone one ne to quell the trouble th that t it Is feared will follow |