NAVY TO OPERATE OIL PLANTS
Mr Truman’s Action Against Strikers
(Rec. 9.30 p.m.) WASHINGTON, October 4,
President Truman has authorized the Secretary of the Navy, Mr James V. Forrestal to take over and operate 26 strike-bound oil producing and refining plants, says the New York Herald Tribune. He said that oil strikes had so far cost the nation 1,675,000 barrels of petroleum products a, day or one-third of the total refinery capacity and had reached the critical stage where essential military operations were jeopardized and essential industrial and agricultural production threatened. He added: “Nothing will be permitted to stand in the way of adequate supplies of any kind for our armed forces and their proper deployment and demobilization. Informed circles say that Mr Truman plans to broadcast an appeal to the country to end the wave of strikes now interfering with the orderly transition to peacetime production. Mr Truman, it is reported, feels that organized labour. to which he has always been a friend, has demonstrated its irresponsibility and let him down seriously, handicapping the reconversion programme. Mr Truman said he believed he would have public opinion behind him in his demand for the cessation of the strikes.
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Southland Times, Issue 25796, 6 October 1945, Page 5
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