Word: pemex
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mexico City, an employer got a union's permission last week to fire 5,000 of its 23,000 members. The employer was ramrod-backed Antonio Bermúdez, boss of Pemex, Mexico's Government oil monopoly. The union was the Mexican Petroleum Workers' Syndicate, until recently one of the fastest-striking labor organizations in Mexico...
...December, when, hot-tempered Union Boss Jorge Ortega tossed one of his lightning strikes at the new Alemán Government. Unlike its predecessors, the Alemán Government struck right back. Soldiers rode gas trucks, broke the strike. A more compliant leader took Ortega's place. But Pemex was still cluttered with an accumulation of political hacks dating far back to other administrations. Antonio Bermúdez, working 12 to 14 hours daily, laid careful plans. Last week, with President Alemán's support, he got what he wanted...
...saved in salaries Bermúdez hopes to plow back into badly needed new equipment. Most important of all, he expects his move to galvanize Pemex's notoriously lethargic working force. "We have more oil than Venezuela, and it is our job to get it up. ... When I get through," he says, "every man in Pemex is going to be on his toes, anxious to win a good record and improve the organization...
...women, kicked grafters out of the city hall. He was the sort of independent President Alemán wanted to bring order out of the Government's inefficient, graft-ridden petroleum monopoly. Said Bermudez when he took the job three weeks ago: "I am going to put Pemex on a businesslike basis...
...with Wildcats. Labor was only the most immediate of the tremendous problems facing Bermúdez. Pemex had fallen far behind on distributing its oil, and in discovering and developing new fields. On distribution, Bermúdez was hamstrung by the sad state of Mexican railways, but he had schemes to overcome that disability. One top-priority project: an $8,000,000 pipeline to bring natural gas from Poza Rica on the Gulf to Mexico City's industries and households. He also hopes to develop new fields that will give Mexico oil for at least 50 years to come...