SABOTAGE IN OIL WELLS
Reeeived Bunday, S.50 p.m. PORT OF EPA IX, Jan. 18. Because of recent acts of sabotagc in Trinidad's oiliields, reputedlv the British Fmpire's largest • source of pctroleum, the Legislative Council [inssed an emergeney Bitl conferring on Ihe Governor wide poivers to eontrol communications and transportation as well as the possession of arms and ummunition, and to call a curfew if necessary. The (jovernor recently banned assemblies after two oi! well fires whi?h have not yet been extinguished Avere blanied on the activities of ti " comparatively small number of oil field workers. ' ' The sabotage followed a Ktrike of 1000 of the .12,000 employees in support of their (lemand for higher pay.
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Chronicle (Levin), 20 January 1947, Page 5
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