Trivia
- Lundeberg's nickname was "The Lunchbox."
- Lundeberg was 6 feet 2½ inches tall and weighed 190 pounds
- Lundeberg was tattooed and "never ducked a waterfront strike or a dock brawl."
- Lundeberg had a longstanding feud with longshoreman's president Harry Bridges.
- Lundeberg "once got a smashed jaw from a C.I.O.-swung baseball bat"
In testimony before the Canadian Parliament in 1996, David Broadfoot of the Canadian Merchant Navy Association recalled that in 1946, "Our government imported a thug, a real heavy-duty gangster from Brooklyn (Hal C. Banks), to smash our union and bring in the Seafarers' International Union... which was no different from the Teamsters at its worst and no different from the longshoremen's association at its worst... They came on our ships with baseball bats and bicycle chains. That's how they introduced their union to Canada." "Tuesday June 18, 1996". http://www.parl.gc.ca. http://www.parl.gc.ca/35/Archives/committees352/defa/evidence/06_96-06-18/defa06_blk101.html. Retrieved March 16, 2008
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