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RESOLUTION NO. 2304 WHEREAS, thousands of men are now out of employment and present conditions indicate that thousands more must soon Join the list of the unemployed in California due to conditions existing in the oil industry; and WHEREAS, the enforced withdrawal of the petroleum industry from the purchasing of material and equipment will seriously affect transportation, the steel industry, and many manufacturing, machinery and oil tool industries throughout the entire United States; and WHEREAg, existing conditions will force the abandonment of many wells, especially small producing wells, thus removing for all time the conservation of this oil for the future, and will seriously injure if not destroy California~s largest industry and force a large number of petroleum producers into bankruptcy; and WHEREAS, national legislation and an inm~ediate embargo or tariff against foreign shipments of oil and petroleum products are necessary to save the American oil industry in the present crisis; THEREFOHE, Be It Resolved that the City Council of the City of Santa Ana petition President Hoover to call an extra session of Congress to enact national legislation to meet the critical situation in the oil industry and to save America from serious irreparable economic loss. RESOLVED, that copies of this Resolution be fo~varded to the President and to California's Senators and Representatives. I here~ry certify that the foregoing Resolution was duly and regularly passed by the City Council of the City of Santa Ana, at a regular meeting of said City Council held on the 4th day of May, 1931, by the following vote: AYES, TRUSTEES: NOES, TRUSTEES: ABSENT, TRUSTEES: J.L.McBride, E.G.Warner, Paul B. Witmer, A.C.HasenJaeger, John Knox. None None ATTEST. E. L. Vegely 'Clerk of the City of Santa Ana. (SEAL).