Does anyone know why the 2 union leaders bombed LA Times in 1910?
The LA Times then as now (2008) was widely viewed as being the voice of the powerful money interests runing/ruling (ruining) California. Owner/Publisher Harrison Gray Otis was virulently anti-Union and used his paper as a mouthpiece to speak out against the Unions comparing them to Anarchists and worse. IF the two Union leaders jailed and convicted were actually guilty of the crime then that would be the motivation. http://www.usc.edu/libraries/archives/la… “”From 1886 to 1917, Harrison Gray Otis was the owner and publisher of the Los Angeles Times. During that time the newspaper pursued a strong conservative viewpoint, and was militantly anti-union in its editorials and in its relationship with employees. On October 1, 1910, in the middle of a strike called to unionize the metal trades of the city, the Times building was dynamited. The south wall facing Broadway Street collapsed, causing the seco
