Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...caller at the Manhattan office of Director D. T. Pierce of Consolidated Oil Corp. last week was Harvey C. Fremming, president of C. I. O.'s International Association of Oil Field, Gas Well & Refinery Workers. Laborman Fremming was not delivering an ultimatum to Harry Ford Sinclair's big company. Even if Mr. Fremming had a labor case against Consolidated, he would not go in for ultimatums. A husky, one-time footballer from the University of Washington, Laborman Fremming steps softly until he is sure of his ground. After C. I. O. announced its drive for a million oil...
...civil commotion. But so far the only major company that has signed a national contract with Mr. Fremming's union is Harry Sinclair's Consolidated. That contract, curiously, was originally signed in 1934 and renewed several times. Other companies have bargained collectively with individual units of the Oil Field, Gas Well & Refinery Workers but Consolidated's contract covers all union members employed by the corporation...
...company." When a stockholder requested amplification of the company's labor relations Director Pierce outlined the history of its contracts, then had the happy thought of introducing Mr. Fremming, who made a nice little speech about how Harry Sinclair's labor policies were outstanding in the oil industry. Before he finished buttering Consolidated, its officials and stockholders, Mr. Fremming pronounced relations of Consolidated and its workers "ideal...
Fishermen twelve miles off the Louisiana mainland in Caillou Bay are inclined to swear when they come in sight of what looks like a gigantic harbor buoy sticking up between two scows. A structure they think improper to the high seas, this is no buoy but one of several oil derricks erected in the bay by Texas Co. Called "deep-sea drilling," Texaco's operations are in water no deeper than 25 ft., but geophysical crews mapping off-shore contours often have to take dynamite soundings. The fishermen claim that any fish not killed or scared clean to Cuba...
Seized on by Texas fishermen as a crucial case last March was the application of Humble Oil & Refining Co. for permission from the War Department to drill a well in 18 ft. of water in the Gulf of Mexico about a mile off the mainland of Jefferson County. In the Texas Legislature sportsmen and conservationists joined with fishing interests to fight for State action against the drilling, pass laws to keep Texas oil fields out of the water. This was the first time any oil company had proposed to drill in the Gulf proper and tarpon fishermen envisioned miles...