Word: sinclair
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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...
Meantime C. I. O.'s organization drive has netted 100,000 members without 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...
What his reaction to his first stock-holders meeting was, Mr. Fremming did not reveal. Harry Sinclair reported that "unless something unusual happens during the year, I feel that the earnings will be very satisfactory." As to labor conditions, they were "satisfactory to the 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...
...Kennedy, Jr., 133 *Vernon Henry Struck 121 *Edward Larrabee Barnes 108 George Frederick Lowman 106 Morris Earle 104 Nathaniel Goddard Benchley 99 Herbert Bruce Griswold 97 Sheldon Ware 88 Wiley Edward Mayne 82 Gibson Winter 82 Caspar Willard Weinberger 79 Robert Wells Snyder 76 Peter Thacher Brooks 75 James Sinclair Armstron 59 Richard Talliesyn Davis 59 Aaron Jerome Himelhoch 56 Philip Truman Shahan 52 Paul Massik 46 Carlos Colton Daughaday, Jr. 45 Alvah Woodbury Sulloway 42 Joseph Franklin 30 1939 Ballot *Francis Austin Harding, Jr. 132 *Richard Howard Sullivan 120 *Joseph Spence Harvin 106 Charles Lee Burwell 105 Richard Peter...
...James Sinclair Armstrong...