Guide to the United States Oil Panel Report and Briefs,
1945-1946

Collection Number: 5092

Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library

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Compiled by:
Kheel Center staff
Date completed:
2002
EAD encoding:
Casey S. Westerman, September 10, 2002

© 2002 Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
United States. Oil Panel. Report and briefs, 1945-1946.
Collection Number:
5092
Creator:
United States. Oil Panel.
Quantity:
0.3 linear ft.
Forms of Material:
Report, brief, statements.
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
United States. Oil Panel. Ashland Oil and Refining Company vs. Oil Workers' International Union : report and brief, 1945-1946.
Language:
Collection material in English

ORGANIZATIONAL HISTORY

The Oil Panel was appointed by the secretary of labor, November 27, 1945 to "investigate the labor dispute relating to the wages which should be paid on the resumption of the forty hour week" in the oil plants and facilities which had been seized by the Navy in accordance with Executive Order 9639. The parties to the dispute included the Oil Workers' International Union, CIO, vs. the Ashland Oil and Refining Company, the Atlantic Refining Company, Cities Services Oil Company, Shell Oil Company, Socony Vacuum Oil Company, Standard Oil Company of Ohio, Texas Company, and Union Oil Company, among others.
As a major source of motive power, the oil industry was considered essential to the reconversion of American industry to peacetime production and any serious breakdown in the industry, such as was threatened by the dispute over wages, would interfere with this reconversion. In a report dated January 12, 1945, the panel recommended a 9.5 percent cost-of-living increase, as well as an additional settlement of 8.5 percent, for a total increase of 18 percent in the wage rate, frozen since the wartime seizure of the plants.
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Included are the Oil Panel's report and recommendations to the secretary of labor (1946); and the Oil Workers' International Union's brief and statement regarding the maintenance of take home pay.
SUBJECTS

Names:
United States.
Ashland Oil, inc.
Atlantic Refining Company.
Cities Service Oil Company.
Oil Workers' International Union.
Shell Oil Company.
Socony Vacuum Oil Company.
Texas Company.
Union Oil Company of California.

Subjects:
World War, 1939-1945--Economic aspects--United States.
Oil industry workers.

Form and Genre Terms:
Briefs.
Reports.
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Cite As:
United States. Oil Panel. Report and briefs, 1945-1946. #5092. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.
COLLECTION ARRANGEMENT

Collection arranged by form of document.