LABOR HISTORY TODAY
Lawrence Smoot | Published on 9/27/2024
September 27, 1893
The International Typographical Union renews a strike against the Los Angeles Times and begins a boycott that runs intermittently from 1896 to 1908. A local anti-Times committee in 1903 persuades William Randolph Hearst to start a rival paper, the Los Angeles Examiner. The ITU kept up the fight into the 1920s; staff of the LA Times organized with The NewsGuild (CWA) in 2018.