Part 3: "Bombs and Ballot Boxes"
Explores differences for working people between union town San Francisco and its open shop neighbor to the south, Los Angeles, around the turn of the century. Sam Gompers, Clarence Darrow, and Eugene Debs make guest appearances in the Los Angeles story, which weaves the bombing of the anti-union Los Angeles Times by ironworkers together with the labor-backed campaign for mayor of Socialist Job Harriman. Meanwhile P. H. McCarthy and the powerful Building Trades Council, the great City Front Strike of 1901, the Union Labor Party, the San Francisco earthquake, Wage Earners Suffrage League and a brutal streetcar strike star up north. Also featured: the Oxnard Beet Workers strike of 1903, with the first farm labor union and strike in California, led by the Japanese-Mexican Labor Alliance. 24 minutes

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