812.6363/2943: Telegram

The Chargé in Mexico (Boal) to the Secretary of State

175. My air mail despatch No. 4892, June 17th, 1937.38 This morning’s El Nacional reports that a decree is in preparation providing that each company or person that exploits the subsoil of Mexico in the realm of petroleum is obligated in the future to pay royalties to the Federal Government in accordance with article 27 of the Constitution.39

Huasteca Oil Company has been given 6 days notice by workmen of the Cerro Azul fields that a general strike of its workmen in that area will be declared as a result of its dismissal of 20 workmen who resorted to acts of violence against 2 company employees, see my despatch 4954 of June 26th.38

Boal
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  2. Foreign Relations, 1917, pp. 951, 955.
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