Another Voice – The Herald |

June 29, 1910: Times cartoonist Edmund Waller “Ted” Gale on the labor situation in Los Angeles.

Lissner is Meyer Lissner (d. 1930), whom The Times attacked as a Goo-Goo (Good Government) official and political boss. Lissner was chairman of the Lincoln Roosevelt League and head of the Public Utilities Commission. Harris Newmark said in “Sixty Years in Southern California” : Mayor George “Alexander’s campaign was managed by Meyer Lissner, an arrival of 1896 who had a brief experience as a jeweler before he turned his attention to law. He possessed much political sagacity, and was therefore quick to turn the Alexander success to the success of Hiram Johnson, who was soon elected governor.”

July 1, 1910: It is frequently said that the Internet will be the death of newspapers, but for researchers at least, it also offers new life in the form of archival inquiries at almost the molecular level. I thought it would be interesting to contrast The Times’ coverage of the 1910 strikes with stories from the Herald, which are available online from the Library of Congress.

Note particularly the story about the steamship company president receiving a threatening note with a nonunion worker’s severed ear. These guys played rough.