Word: oilfields
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Vertical v. Horizontal unionism bobbed up again. This time the drive to reform the Federation along vertical (industrial) lines rather than the traditional horizontal (craft) union structure was precipitated by the Oilfield, Gas Well & Refinery Workers, who were about to be decimated among metal craft organizations. Other small, new industrial unions were marshaling for verticalism under the covert leadership, it was said, of John Llewellyn Lewis, whose United Mine Workers are organized vertically and form the most powerful single A. F. of L. unit...
Kettleman. Oilman Doherty believes in the unit form of operating an oilpool. Part of his last week's blast was: ". . . Competition in an oilfield is no more competition than is a run on a bank. . . . In fact, the operators are trying to get not only their own oil but everybody else's." Last week a small owner in Kettleman Hills, rich California field, denounced Secretary Wilbur for his plans to put Kettleman on a unit basis. The small man said unit operation would give Standard Oil of California a monopoly. Phrase. To scraggle-whiskered Governor William Henry ("Alfalfa...
...Federal Oil Conservation Board has suggested a six-day refinery week; the American Petroleum Institute since its organization in 1920 has championed curtailment; California's law prohibiting the waste of natural gas has been a way to force reduced production. Now many oilmen hope the conception of an oilfield as a mutually owned unit will be the solution. Production by Royal Dutch-Shell has increased overproduction, but Sir Henry Deterding stoutly maintains he has reduced his production in proportion to U. S. curtailment...
...Oilman Julian, enriched by success in California's Signal Hill Oilfield, organized Julian Petroleum Corp., did much expanding, sold much stock. His ways of selling stock angered bankers. His ways of selling his products angered other companies. In 1924 he was glad to sell out for about $500,000. Three years later the Great Julian Scandal came, made police reserves necessary. Oilman Julian had no connection with the scandal, but it fixed his name in western minds. About a year ago he arrived in Okla homa City, said he would "come back." He proceeded to sell stock in Julian...
...Slick, 47, famed oil wildcatter, "richest independent operator in the world"; of a cerebral hemorrhage, at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore where he had been since June 27. Born in Clarion, Pa., he went in 1906 to the Indian Territory, after serving apprentice- ship as driller, muleskinner, roustabout in the oilfields of Illinois. In 1913 he sold out his holdings in Illinois for $2,500,000; last year his Southwestern holdings brought him $45,000,000 from Prairie Oil & Gas. During his funeral in faraway Clarion, all drilling and pumping operations in the Oklahoma City oilfield were stilled...