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The article focuses on the strike by maritime workers in Alaska. On the West Coast docks "lunch-box" is the monicker of bullish, brawling Harry Lundeberg, leader of the Jim Crows fiercely anti-leftist Sailors' Union of the Pacific (S.U.P.). Lundeberg and his lieutenants, have tied up the Seattle waterfront in a strike against the Alaska Steamship Company, which has a virtual monopoly on shipping to Alaska. Strikes against other companies belonging to the Pacific Maritime Association the biggest shipping group in the West have been called in other ports. The Seattle strike is causing serious concern to Alaskans. Governor Ernest Gruening, pleading "Don't let Alaska go hungry," has tried in vain to persuade the S.U.P. to bring food ships to Alaskan ports.