Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1921-07-09
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there have been no untoward Incl
dents in the oil regions.
Senior Torreblanca's statement said
nothing had been received in official
circles to cause misrepresentation.
Plutarco Elias Gales, secretary oil
the interior, told Mexican newspaper
men informally that the government
was prepared to unmask American
oil producers" whom he charged with
'scandalous actions not only against
the Mexican treasury but agams, the
United States as we'll" This state
ment was published in three Mexico
City newspapers and there was much
speculation as to its significance.
The secretary is said to have zs-
serted that oil pipe lines should be
made public utilities, adding when
regulating Article 81 we will deal with
this subject
Special Agents Working
He was said to have referred TO al
legged attempts by American oil COM
panies to dodge income taxes by dis
solving the parent corporations and
forming numerous subsidiaries. Con-
tinuing, the secretary said, according
to the version printed in FL Univer-
sal:
Knowing the other systems used
by the oil companies to hide the true
status of their enterprises. the Next
can government, in defense of it's own
interests, has, by means of special
agents in the United States, started
an active campaign to pull the masks
from the faces of these companies"
Secretary Gales is said to have re-
ferred to the complaints of oil COM
panies against Article 81 of the Mex
lean constitution, which nationalIzes
petroleum deposits.
What has the Mexican government
DONE" he asked, ito warrant these
unjust complaints that this article is
retroactive and confiscatory?"
Industry Endangered
In conclusion the secretary men,
toned alleged ''monopolistic tenden-
cies of large oil companies which have
already acquired pipe lines. roads and
terminals, causing hardships for the
smaller companies"
Local representatives of oil COM
panies reiterated in statements to
newspapermen last night that it was
impossible for their concerns to op-
crate except at loss under President
Obregon's decree increasing taxes on
oil exported from the country. They
asserted that no increase in oil prices
could be expected before six months
at least, adding by that time exporta-
ton will have ceased entirely.
Caesar Lopez de Lara, governor of
the state of Tamaulipas. was official
ly reported to have conferred by tel
egraph with President Obregon who
ordered him at once to Tampico to
aid in the adjustment of the labor
situation So far as dispatches from
Tampico indicate, there were no I'M
toward incidents there.
Senior Torreblanca stated that
Mexican workmen who were thrown
out of work were acting with pru-
dence and decorum."
The foreign office declined to COM
ment on any phase of the situation.
Nothing in the way of communica-
tions passed between Mexican Off
Gals and the American charge daft
flares here relative to the presence
OF United States ships in Mexican
waters. The incident occasioned lit
tie excitement in Mexico City The
public apparently accepted the gov
ernor's opinion that warships OF
friendly nation are privileged to call
DIT Mexican ports, and to remain, so
long as they do not transgress inter
national law