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- 1Los Angeles Times bombing anniversary marks deadliest labor attack▼Today in Labor History October 1, 1910: Twenty-one people were killed when the Los Angeles Times building was dynamited
On October 1, 1910, a dynamite explosion destroyed the Los Angeles Times building during a labor dispute, killing twenty-one people. Anarchists were immediately blamed for the attack, which came amid a brutal, prolonged battle between the Iron Workers Union and U.S. Steel. The bombing remains one of the deadliest incidents in American labor history, and labor historians are recalling it on its anniversary.
- 2Remembering the 1910 Los Angeles Times bombing●# Union # DirectAction has, on rare occasion, gone too far. Between 1906 & 1911 the # IW carried out 110 bombings of iro
A labor history post is revisiting the 1910 bombing of the Los Angeles Times building, in which a union-affiliated militant killed 21 people and injured more than 100. It notes that between 1906 and 1911 the Iron Workers union carried out around 110 bombings of ironworks, mostly minor, with the Los Angeles attack standing out as the deadliest.