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Photograph of the Los Angeles Times Building on Broadway and First Street after being bombed, October 1, 1910. Firemen pictured at left continue to struggle to put out the blaze. The building, partially collapsed to the left, has a firemen's ladder extending to its third-story window. Rubble and debris can be seen piled-up at left where the building has collapsed. "The bombing was carried out by a member of the Indianapolis-based Ironworkers Union, J.B. McNamara, as part of a plot masterminded by his brother, J.J. McNamara, the secretary-treasurer of the union. The bombing was instigated and paid for by American Federation of Labor (AFL) leaders in San Francisco, who had been largely unsuccessful in organizing workers in Los Angeles, partly because of the opposition of the powerful Los Angeles Times. There is no evidence that a single person in Los Angeles was aware of the plot to bomb the Times. The owner of the Times, Harrison Gray Otis, kept the unions at bay at his newspaper in part by paying his workers more than his competitors with union contracts did. There were no allegations of mistreatment. Twenty Times workers and one visitor were killed in the bombing and an estimated 100 were injured" -- Lew Irwin, the author of "Deadly Times: The 1910 Bombing of the Los Angeles Times and America's Forgotten Decade of Terror" 2018-08-13.
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image
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1 photograph : photonegative, b&w 21 x 26 cm. 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w negatives (photographic) photographs
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