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Hoover Dam was virtually under martial law last week. A strike was in progress. No work had been done for seven days, since Six Companies, Inc. had paid off 1,300 men and ordered from the reservation 200 who had struck for higher wages, better working conditions...
...Governor William Henry ("Cocklebur Bill") Murray called out troops to shut in oil wells until the price of oil should reach $1 per bbl. (TIME, Aug. 17.) Taking cue from his neighbor, Governor Sterling last week roweled his Legislature into action one day before adjournment with a threat of martial law. To show he meant it he sent his adjutant general into the gushing East Texas fields to find quarters for 1,000 troopers. Twelve hours later the Legislature sent him a bill which he promptly signed as "satisfactory...
Declared Governor Sterling of the new law: "It's got teeth in it but I might still slap on martial law if some of these [East Texas] operators get to acting up." But martial law was no idle threat with Governor Sterling. Many an East Texas producer had begged him to shut in that field by force. After he had perused the new conservation law and received legal advice, he despatched Texas guardsmen under sealed orders to the second richest oil field in the world...
After they had taken up their posts through the field Governor Sterling proclaimed martial law, ordered every one of the 1,600 flush wells in the 2,815 sq. mi. of Upshur. Gregg, Rusk and Smith Counties shut down. Last week this field, running wide open, produced an all-time record of 738,000 bbl. This week under the Governor's orders they were to produce not a barrel. Proclaimed Governor Sterling...
...Cuban Congress hurriedly authorized President Machado to put the entire island under martial...