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Show To Maintain Present Wages A declaration of Intention to maintain present wages and hours of labor, and to refrain from employment em-ployment of child labor has been made by the directors of the Utah Oil Refining company. This was just announced in an official bulletin to executives and employees of the Utah Oil Refining company subsidiaries, signed by T. A. Dines, president, and A. N. Johnson, John-son, secretary and treasurer. The bulletin reads: "Directors of the American Petroleum Institute on June 6 adopted a resolution reading, read-ing, in part, as follows: " 'The petroleum industry should not be disconcerted by the dissolution dissolu-tion of the petroleum code. It is the judgment of. this Board that the oil companies engaged in the business of producing, transporting, refining and marketing of petroleum and its products pro-ducts should observe those rules of fair practice which they have learned learn-ed from experience are sound and wholesome, make for stability, and serve the public interest. " 'This Board unanimously urges all those engaged in the industry to refrain from the employment of child labor, and to maintain present wages and hours of labor.' "The directors of Utah Oil Refining Refin-ing company have on this date unanimously un-animously endorsed the Institute's attitude as above expressed and will conform to that attitude as long as competitive conditions, applicable laws, or other external conditions will permit." |