Word: luckenbach
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...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...
...Employers' Association, which bargained for Luckenbach, maintained that under the Taft-Hartley law, it did not have to bargain with foremen; the union contended that a decision by the National Labor Relations Board, before the Taft-Hartley act became law, had designated it as bargaining agent for walking bosses...
...Angeles employers decided to break the deadlock. Last week they closed down the Los Angeles and Long Beach harbors until the Luckenbach strike was called off. By week's end, as 15 ships lay idle and 3,000 longshoremen were out of work, the employers received some unexpected encouragement...
...told his men to ignore the C.I.O. pickets, and promised to supply crews to four struck Luckenbach ships. Some C.I.O. unionists apparently thought it was a phony beef also. When the Matson Navigation Co. rerouted its Matsonia from Los Angeles to San Francisco, Bridges tried to stop her from sailing to Honolulu. But members of the C.I.O. stewards' union loaded the passengers' baggage and the Matsonia, manned by Lundeberg's unionists...