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...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, he is a life-long unionist who was catapulted to power in the 1934 strike but in the Sailors' Union of the Pacific. After the strike Harry Bridges was rewarded with...
...Hawaii, 600 travelers were unable to continue because no U. S. ships were sailing. After loud protest from Governor Joseph B. Poindexter, Strikeleader Harry Lundeberg in San Francisco announced that all ships bound for the U. S. mainland could sail. In Honolulu, lettuce jumped from 5? to 25? a head, celery from $3.25 to $9.80 per case...
...carefully built up proved his Frankenstein. Standing to gain nothing by a compromise between coastwise shippers and Pacific longshoremen, the other unions in the Federation demanded a strike. They were led in this by the strong Sailors' Union of the Pacific, headed by loose-mouthed, hulking Harry Lundeberg who would like to steal Bridges' dominant position. To keep a united front, Bridges agreed on the strike...
...halls. A major issue is that of selection of men- that is, who shall have the right to say to whom American ship operators must entrust their ships. Employers believe that the owners should have this right. To resume negotiations under current circumstances would be useless." This attitude Harry Lundeberg termed "arbitrary and unreasonable." Thus last week the situation remained the old poser: what happens when the irresistible meets the immovable...
...Francisco for the Orient, 50 members of her deck-crew refused to sign on unless Seaman Brenner were hired also. The Line refused. After six days' delay and $50,000 loss to the Line, the Department of Labor's pudgy Trouble-Shooter Edward Fitzgerald persuaded Secretary Harry Lundeberg of the Sailors' Union of the Pacific to cool off the crew so that the President Hoover might...