Word: becks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fortnight ago, wanting to remove some of its stored Del Monte canned goods, California Packing dispatched a fleet of trucks manned by members of the Teamsters Union, which on the West Coast is bossed by A. F. of L.'s beefy Dave Beck, "Tsar of Seattle Labor" and a sworn enemy of Harry Bridges. Promptly hustled to the warehouse was a crew of Bridges' unionists to picket not the warehouse but the Beck teamsters...
Instanter Dave Beck declared war, ordering his teamsters to cease trucking all goods handled by the Bridges longshoremen-a virtual embargo of the entire San Francisco waterfront. Exceptions were made for such things as perishables and Government orders. Soon settled and forgotten was the original warehousemen-California Packing squabble. For pugnacious Dave Beck it had served its purpose as a labor Sarajevo. What started as a local warehouse squabble was by last week a major labor battle, involving the whole of San Francisco, threatening the whole Pacific Coast...
...Serb trustees first awarded the commission to Yugoslavian Sculptor Ivan Mestrovic, withdrew it when local patriots and Federal art officials protested that a U. S. sculptor should have the job. Obligingly the trustees fixed on Denver's own Maillol-trained Sculptor Arnold Ronnebeck. But when Ronne-beck's design of a female figure cradling a covered wagon in one arm came before the Municipal Art Commission it was speedily vetoed. An advisory committee of local artists and architects then held a national contest for designs, invited able Sculptor Maurice Sterne to help pick the winner. Last year Sterne...
After Teamster Casey died last spring at 79, his reins passed to Teamster David Beck pudgy, aggressive "Tsar of Seattle labor" who is out to organize "everything on wheels," a definition broad enough to take warehousemen as well as restaurant help, newspaper circulation hustlers and already organized brewers...
Just as Dave Beck has his "everything on wheels" so Harry Bridges has his "march inland," the Bridges credo calling for unity not only among waterfront workers but all workers in the surrounding territory. So he went after the warehousemen, who stand economically between the longshoremen and the teamsters. There he clashed with Dave Beck in a violent struggle which is still far short of settlement. Meantime Bridges is being attacked on the flank by Harry Lundeberg, a tough, towering Norwegian from Oslo who arrived on the Pacific Coast a few years after Harry Bridges. Like Bridges...