Word: pemex
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Dates: during 1946-1946
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Mexico's high-riding oil workers got a jolt. When riggers and refinery men walked out last week, in one of their periodic 24-hour stoppages to force wage concessions, the new Alemán Government cracked right back. Troops were called out to guard property of Pemex, the Government's oil monopoly. Furthermore, deliveries went on: jeeploads of soldiers with machine guns at the ready convoyed gas trucks through the capital's streets...
...Secretary of Labor Andres Serra Rojas called the strike illegal, said he would have the law on its leaders. At week's end the new chief of Pemex, Antonio Bermúdez, went farther, fired 50 leaders of the lawbreaking union. Said he: "There are 20,000,000 men to take the places of 20.000. I have the Federal Government backing me and I was never more confident or optimistic in my life...
...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...
Probable first Alemán move: fire Pemex Director Efrain Buenrostro. After that, anything might happen, including the return, in some form, of foreign interests (TIME, Aug. 5). There might even be kerosene for Josefina's stove...