He had a running battle with the Los Angeles Police Department and Harrison Gray Otis's and Harry and Norman Chandler's "Times" — which he likened to "a black-jack, a bludgeon, a weapon to be used in behalf of their friends and against their enemies." In his book he accused the "Times" of all manner of malfeasance, from king-making and union busting to subverting laws, violating civil rights and "aligning class against class, race against race, in an attempt to make bigger profits for themselves."