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Just as Dave Beck has his "everything on wheels" so Harry Bridges has his "march inland," the Bridges credo calling for unity not only among waterfront workers but all 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 official leadership of the Pacific Coast longshoremen, and one of his first ideas was to create a united maritime front. For this purpose he sponsored the Maritime Federation of the Pacific with the longshoremen and seamen as the key unions. The motto: "An injury to one is an injury to all." For the Federation's first president he hit on Harry Lundeberg, who was even more militant than he. This was such a boost for Lundeberg that he was soon given leadership of the Sailors' Union. Meantime the two Harrys settled down to battle for control of the Federation's 40,000 members.