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Labor Clippings

Description: Approx. 25 items: LAT clips and copies, reports and timelines on labor issues in Los Angeles, California and the nation. Items of note: 16-pp. (yellow sheets) headed "SG Chron labor 1911-33 (post-bombing), appears to be headlines and quotes from news stories and editorial comments; 3-pp. stapled, "S.F. Chronicle" (9/9/1914), "Otis tells of the open shop...Los Angeles publisher takes stand..." ; 14-pp. copy of Thesis presented to Claremont Colleges, 1929, by John Homer Williams, "The Los Angeles Times and Public Opinion" ; booklet reprinted from LAT material originally published 10/1/1929 (the 19th anniversary of the Times Building bombing), titled "Lest we forget...the Forty-year war for a Free City, a history of the open shop in Los Angeles."
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Date: 1910 - 1929
Call number: mssLAT
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Labor Clippings

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Approx. 15 items: collection of LAT articles and material from other sources on the relations [antipathy) between labor and the "open shop" LAT of the era. Of note are: 16 yellow sheets with a chronology of LAT articles, with quotes, relating to labor activities, strikes, etc.; a copy of a reprinted letter, 1892, from M.H. de Young of San Francisco to Harrison Gray Otis; related material.

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Labor

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Approx. 10 items: stapled, multi-page reprint from LAT headed, "Lest we forget...The Forty-year war for a Free City," originally published during the month of 10/1929 ; article tear sheet, The American West, 3/1970, "The case of the very American militants" ; approx. 15-pp., interview of Seth Brown (labor rep.) by Dr. Corrine Gilb, material headed "The Los Angeles Times and the I.T.U. Local 174 (typographical union), 5/1957; cover and articles copied from The Californians, 7/1984, several articles on labor agitation in L.A. area, especially San Pedro in 1920s; 60-pp. copied from a book, Los Angeles, by Morrow Mayo in 1932.

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Buildings - Second - Bombing - Darrow, Clarence

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8 items. Material related to attorney Clarence Darrow and his involvement in the LAT bombing trial in 1911. Items include: sheet headed "DK/8/78 - Los Angeles Times, Bombing of: - Clarence Darrow 1) Los Angeles Times Clippings"; 61-pp. booklet, "The Darrow Bribery Trial" (1956); 1987 Reference Request form, LAT Archives, for two clippings; "Portion of Henry Fonda performance of 'Clarence Darrow' - 1975"; various newspaper clippings mentioning Darrow;etc.

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Labor Clippings

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30-plus items: clips and copies of news stories and editorial from LAT, California Labor-Herald, Liberty (mag) Los Angeles Guildsman, Business Week etc.

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"The Los Angeles Times, Labor, and the Open Shop, 1980 - 1910," Jerome Wolf

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1 item: Small copy of "The Los Angeles Times, Labor, and the Open Shop, 1980 - 1910" by Jerome Wolf, A Thesis Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School, University of Southern California, In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts (History).

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Politics - Los Angeles City

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Approx. 20 items: clips and copies from LAT and other L.A. media on L.A. mayors, city government, relations between the Press and politics locally, journalism's influence on public opinion, etc. Notable items: pp. 33 - 47 from "Los Angeles Times and Public Opinion," a 1929 thesis written at Claremont Colleges by John Homer Williams ; pp. 207 - 228, copied from book The Fragmented Metropolis, L.A. - 1850 - 1930, by Robert Fogelson, 1967 ; 58-pp. college (?) paper, written for a Political Science class (1971), "The role and influence of the Los Angeles Times in City politics...", by Rich Wiseman.

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