Word: luckenbach
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like many another labor dispute, the row on the California docks started over a seemingly small matter. At issue were the bargaining rights of nine "walking bosses" (stevedore foremen) of the Luckenbach Steamship Co., oldest U.S. shipping line and second largest intercoastal carrier. But as seven ships tied up at San Francisco docks and two in Los Angeles, the crews walked off. Luckenbach's California service, which carries some 90,000 tons of cargo a month, was paralyzed...
...Luckenbach line decided on drastic action. It announced that intercoastal service would be suspended, Luckenbach's coastal fleet would join its tramp steamers in the international trade. Said the line's acting Pacific Coast manager, Vincent P. McMurdo : "Until we can operate ships on this coast without interference in management by the longshore union, we're pulling...
Showdown. Behind Luckenbach stood the formidable Waterfront Employers' Association of California; backing up the walking bosses was Harry Bridges' Redlined International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union (C.I.O.). Both wanted a showdown...
Portrait In Black (by Ivan Goff & Ben Roberts; produced by David Lowe & Edgar F. Luckenbach) quickly lets the audience know that the San Francisco shipping magnate, Matt Talbot, didn't die the natural death people supposed he did: he was done in by his wife and her lover (Claire Luce* and Donald Cook). Then it quickly lets the murderers know, by means of a taunting anonymous letter, that they aren't quite getting away with it: someone is hep to their deed...
...Wonderful." By week's end the new life had become pleasant routine. Mrs. Isabella B. Luckenbach, wife of a lieutenant colonel in Berlin, glowed with approval of her big, ten-room house in suburban Dahlem. Said she: "Naturally I'm going to fix things the way I like, but all in all I think it's wonderful. . . . I guess the biggest surprise was the plumbing. I always thought continental plumbing wasn't up to our standards. But we've got the grandest tile bathrooms in this house -three of them-one on each floor...