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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.
- 2Homestead Strike union leaders prosecuted for treason in 1892▼Today in Labor History September 30, 1892: In the wake of the Homestead Steel Strike, union leaders were prosecuted for
On September 30, 1892, in the aftermath of the Homestead Steel Strike, union leaders faced prosecution for treason, the first time in U.S. history workers' leaders were charged with the crime. Henry Clay Frick, chairman of Carnegie Steel, persuaded the chief justice of Pennsylvania's supreme court to issue the treason charges. The case became a landmark example of how companies used the courts against organized labor.