Labor History in 2:00
October 4 - Truman Seizes the Nation’s Oil Refineries
October 06, 2024
On this day in Labor History the year was 1945. That was the day President Harry Truman issued Executive Order 9639. It ordered the US Navy to seize control of more than four dozen oil refineries across the country. As World War II was drawing to a clo
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