Word: luckenbach
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Union. U.S. counterpart of Lloyd's Register is the 87-year-old American Bureau of Shipping, which handles marine rating for nearly all U.S. flag vessels. Last year Lloyd's and J. Lewis Luckenbach, president of A.B.S., worked out a deal that would divide the world's multimillion-dollar classifying business between them. The A.B.S. dropped its 32-year-old working agreement with the British Corporation Register of Shipping, Lloyd's biggest rival in the United Kingdom, and arranged to dovetail its operations with Lloyd's instead...
...Marry (by Elisabeth Cobb & Herschel Williams; produced by Edgar F. Luckenbach) was quite understandably the work of two people: no one person would be capable of anything so bad. Its brightest witticisms heavier than a bride's first biscuits, it sank out of sight after three performances...
...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...