During the early 20th-century, several violent and controversial Iron Workers’ Union (IWU) strikes, protests, and a lengthy, but largely victim-free bombing campaign enraged Harrison Grey Otis, publisher of the Los Angeles Times. The IWU had a rare stronghold in Los Angeles and the two were on a collision course. In 1910, brothers John and James McNamara were tasked with organizing a bombing of the newspaper plant. James left a case of dynamite with a detonator in an alley alongside the L.A. Times building. When the bomb went off during the…
