Word: oils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Across the U.S., from Montauk Point to Malibu Beach, the tide of labor unrest seethed angrily. In oil, automobiles, coal, lumber, textiles and many another industry, there were strikes, shutdowns, and threats of strikes. At one time last week 420,000 workers were idle. While many an industrial plant ran at less than full power because it could not staff its machinery, the first blows of violence rose ominously...
...testing its temper against more controversial measures coming up. By all factions in Congress Harry Truman was still one of the best liked of all Presidents, but he had undeniably lost some of his early acceptance on the Hill. It was time for the pouring of oil on waters and of water on bourbon...
...Port Arthur, Tex., pickets strode before a Texas Co. refinery carrying signs: "52 for 40 or Fight. This is a Walkout." The slogan meant that C.I.O. oil workers wanted 52 hours' pay for 40 hours' work. The drive was on for labor's first postwar objective: wartime wages at peacetime hours...
Strikes like Port Arthur's hit oil plants in seven states through the South and Midwest. By week's end 27,000 workers were out. Toledo went on self-imposed gasoline rationing, other communities considered similar steps; millions of gallons of gasoline and fuel oil for the Atlantic seaboard were choked off. At one time last week, 323,000 workers were idle, in strikes and shutdowns...
When Standard Oil got too omnivorous for Theodore Roosevelt's liking, a U.S. court broke it up into 34 competing companies. Last week, Attorney-General Tom C. Clark recommended to Congress that the same thing be done to another titan, the Aluminum Company of America. Said he: only by breaking up Alcoa into several smaller, competing companies can true and permanent competition be brought to the aluminum industry...