Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-11-10
WAGE sCALE IN OIL COUNTRY.

price or oil was posted AT 40 centS
barrel but selling actually in 1000, 900
barrel lots for S5 cents a barrel, and
even 80 cents n barrel. II took 10 bar
rels Of oil at the posted price 10 pay
the daily wage OF q driller, and II took
more than 10 barrels OF oil a day to
pay the wages OF "A tool dresser. Just
when the Glenn pool production had
the head worked off and normal CON
dtions were being restored, along
came the Cushing pool with 400, 600
barrels daily production. The price
But the wage scale remained un-
changed. 1t still required Is barrels
Of oil every day to pay driller, and
more than 10 barrels every day TO pay
tool dresser 1t really required 90
barrels every day OF the highest grade
oil in the world to pay the two shifts
in the rig
In the days Of Glenn pool and Cush-
ing pool the rate OF wage paid in the
oil country Of Oklahoma ran from
$3.50 TO $500 a day. Now the rate
runs from $375 to $500. IT may be
said that crude oil has increased in
value from 40 cents "A barrel to $500,
and that the ratio OF increase in the
wage scale has not kept up with the
increase in the price Of crude oil.
Apparently that is sound argument II
is the best the agitators have. IT is
the only one they have which has
even the slightest sem mblance OF logi-
cal basis. But when the agitators are
quoting prices OF crude oil ten years
ago and today. they do not quote the
increase In the prices OF material.
They do not tell you that a well that
$1,000 costs more than $4,000 now.
They do not tell you that the prices of
pipe and small drilling tools have in
creased more than 900 per cent dur
ing the past five years, and in many
cases, even yet, are practically out OF
the reach OF many producers at pres
ent price OF $500 a barrels for crude
oil
OIL country employees, as class, are
loyal TO their employer, 10 their gov
ernment, and TO themselves. But, be-
ing so distinctly and Enthusiastically
honest themselves, they are apt to at
tach an undue degree OF reliability
and credibility TO the stories which the
professional agitator is spreading
abroad thruout Oklahoma at this time.
And II would be well for each and
every man on each and every lease In
Oklahoma to ask himself why II Is
that, at this time OF all others, this
propaganda OF hate and discord should
be spread abroad In the gulf coast re-
gion and In the mid continent field?
Why is It that when everybody was
satisfied, when the relations between
the employer and the employed were
more harmonious than ever before in
the history of the industry. when every
nerve and muscle was being strained
TO supply the urgent war needs of the
government and It's allies, the noxlous
advocates OF discord and violence ap-
peared in Oklahoma and Kansas. It
cannot be that when wages are higher
than ever before, when oil country la
Dor OF all classes Is paid more than
any other class of skilled artisans and
mechanics, the agitators should select
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for their operations.
II the oil country workers, more
than usually intelligent. will just stop
and think for second they will find
that the only possible result OF dis
cord In the oil industry at this time
Is 10 help the German emperor and
win n victory for the German arms
Evidence in the hands of the govern
ment and state authorities proves con-
clusively that the |. w. W. movement
is being financed by agencies OF the
German government, and that every
time II stops the production of bar
rel of oil or stops the manufacture OF
n pound OF gunpowder. II increases the
chances of American boys being
killed.
1t is really not n question of recog-
milton of the union or of wage differ
ence at all. II is n question whether
the paid and known agents OF the
German government are going to be
permitted to carry on their hellish
schemes and plots while American
boys, even now are sanctlfying the
soil OF France with their hearts blood
and the blood of any one OF these boys
Is worth more, indeed n single drop
than all OF the heads of all the I. w.
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