United States Oil Panel Report and Briefs, 1946
Collection Number: 5092
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
United States Oil Panel Report and Briefs, 1946
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Collection Number:
5092
Abstract:
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.
Creator:
United States Oil Panel
Quanitities:
0.33 cubic feet
Language:
Collection material in English
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 o fthe
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.
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.
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United States Oil Panel Report and Briefs #5092. Kheel Center for Labor-Management
Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.
Names:
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
United States. Oil Panel.
Subjects:
World War, 1939-1945--Economic aspects--United States.
Oil industry workers.
Hours of labor. Petroleum industry. United States.
Labor disputes. Petroleum industry. United States.
Petroleum industry. United States. Military aspects.
Petroleum industry. United States. State supervision.
Wages. Petroleum industry. United States.
CONTAINER LIST
Container
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Description
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Date
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Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Brief on maintenance of take-home pay
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1946 |
Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Oil Panel Report and Recommendations to the Secretary of Labor
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1946 |