Summary Of Under The Big Black Sun

In Under the Big Black Sun: A Personal history of L.A. Punk by John Doe and Tom DeSavia, there existed a darker side, more so than some teenage rebelling against society spoken of on the surface. The same can be said with the ironworkers’ union in 1910; the union was weary of being oppressed and fought back using dynamite tactics to scare those who opposed what they stood for. This ended up backfiring when the dynamite bombing of the Los Angeles Times building caused injuries and deaths. The LA Times incident caused the labor movement in Los Angeles to collapse when the unionists were trying to build it up.
In the book by Doe and DeSavia, punk rock changed from the initial goals of expressing themselves and trying to show the world a new style

What they had not foreseen was that there would be barrels full of ink next to where they had placed the dynamite. (Simkin) The ink barrels then easily caught fire and burned down the building injuring and killing more people than it otherwise could have. The brothers ended up pleading guilty to avoid the death penalty at the time.
The state at the time had made a bargain with the brothers to not convict other minor helpers in the bombing from the union but the same could not be said by the federal law, but even they couldn’t convict the 39-other people with murder.(Simkin) After that trial a year later, even more, people were sentenced for small charges of transporting dynamite with the longest being 7 years. That was the only way they could have sent them to prison for being involved in the 1910 incident. What had been amazing was that those people once they had gotten out of prison were given jobs by the union for being loyal.
"If the McNamara case teaches us anything it is that we must organize along both economic and political lines, that we must unite in the same union and fight together, and in the same party and vote together, and stick unflinchingly to that

There are hardly any statements of it that they have made. The only things they did say are brief, or to the families of the dead. They made it seem like it did not happen and that tucked it away in a little corner. This was a huge thing that was a big part of the history of Los Angeles, people died in a newspaper building and it was hushed years later. If you ask around about the bombing of the LA Times most people would be confused and unsure if you were telling truth because they have no clue such an event had occurred. The only ones in the know where the family members that were involved in some way, indirectly or directly through people they