CALIFORNIA —On June 21, 1935, at the Holmes-Eureka lumber mill in Eureka, a six-week-old strike by Humboldt County lumber workers came to a violent end. A riot broke out when a crowd of more than 200 pickets clashed with police and vigilantes attempting to clear the front gate. Tear gas, then firearms were used against stone-throwing strikers, killing three and wounding at least seven. More than 100 people were arrested… The Holmes-Eureka Massacre, as it later became known, is a forgotten chapter in the Great Northwest Lumber Strike of 1935. The strike was a failure for unions throughout the Northwest and a social disaster for the little town of Eureka. The strike and the riot that ended it were marked with violence and conspiracy that were brought to light by the trials of those arrested. …surviving court records, newspaper archives, and eyewitness reports yield an interesting story of labor’s struggle for acceptance in Humboldt County.