Oct 1, 1910: The Los Angeles Times, then located at 1st & Broadway, was bombed by labor extremists. "There were about 100 workers in the Times building — Linotype operators, stenographers, printers, machinists, compositors."
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Two brothers and 16 sticks of dynamite: The bombing of the L.A. Times
About 100 workers were in the Los Angeles Times building at 1:07 a.m. Oct. 1, 1910. Then 16 sticks of dynamite exploded at the anti-union newspaper, and people began dying.
![This color photo of the September 11 memorial includes the artist information that reads: "Recovering Equilibrium - A 9/11 Memorial / Public Artist BJ Krivanek and Public Designer Joel Breaux." The stainless steel dish can be seen in the background along with the words "Liberty / Voting Rights / United We Stand / Let Freedom [Ring]" in the blue perimeter. Took this photo back when you could still walk under the Theme Building.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kir5g4bdxsnchffovxcewgmr/bafkreidus43s7elj5weyxr4dt3qivnpajkb4e5you4avlmhdzewtnwrqqi)
![An excerpt from “Sunshine Was Never Enough” reads:
Some of the other pro-employer testimony was genuine, and the commissioners were right to accept it at face value. But Commissioner James O'Connell (who was also president of the International Association of Machinists) invited several union leaders to testify, with enlightening results. C.F. Grow, a machinist at the Southern Pacific Railroad's repair shop, openly criticized the anti-union strategy of the Merchants and Manufacturers Association, although he did not name the organization specifically. "The prosperous condition in this city is not enjoyed by those who toil," Grow said. "We have combinations of men .. who are very, very wealthy. They dominate all the railroad lines and everything [that] comes under their domination and power. If labor was only half so prosperous as these gentlemen, I think we would be very well satisfied.”
J. W. Buzzell, business agent for the Metal Trades Council, who would later become secretary of the Los Angeles Central Labor Council, was more specific.
He challenged booster assertions about labor prosperity by citing state reports showing that the wages earned by metalworkers in San Francisco, Texas, and Illinois were significantly higher than those earned by metalworkers in L.A. In San Francisco, Buzzell stated, metalworkers made $, an hour for an eight-hour day; in Texas, they made from $3.75 to $5 a day for eight hours of work. But in Los Angeles, metalworkers earned only "$2.50 a day to $4.50 a day for the same class of work." In some nonunion metal shops, Buzzell added pointedly, "they work eight hours for whatever the boss can get them to work for."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kir5g4bdxsnchffovxcewgmr/bafkreifd5ktecxm4w22oacdrkzyqqyyyr33z62dbq4ki2g4sa4s5mrduku)
