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No 696
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY OF HUNTINGTON
BEACH ENDORSING A RESOLUTION OF THE
CH?FIBER OF COMMERCE, ENTITLED 11A RESO-
LUTION OF THE CHAMBER. OF CONDIERCE OF THE .
CITY O. HU*r'TIUGTOII BEACH, CALIFORNIA,
PROTESTING THE ACTION OF THE ATTORNEY
GENERAL IN BRINGING AN ACTION AGAINST
T,',,',E CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH AND VARIOUS
OIL 0"ERATORS" .
The City Council of the City of Huntington Beach
do resolve as follows :
WHEREAS the Chamber of Commerce of the City of
Huntington Beach have passed and adopted a certain Resolution
on the 14th day of September, 1933, in words and figures
as follows, to-wit
if RESOLUTION
A RESOLUTION OF THE CHAI,,ABER OF COMMERCE
OF THE CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH, CALIFORNIA,
PROTESTING THE ACTION OF THE ATTORNEY GEN-
ERAL IN BRINGING All ACTION AGAINST THE CITY
OF HUNTINGTON BEACH AND VARIOUS OIL OPERATORS.
The Board of Directors of the Chamber of Commerce
of the City of Huntington Beach, California, do resolve
as follows :
WHEREAS, the State of California has instituted
action against oil operators, the City of Huntington Beach,
et al, to enjoin oil operators from further activity in
Huntington Beach, the effect of which will be to throw out
of employment not less than three thousand men now employed
in the development work and an additional two thousand men
in supplemental industries, taking away the present support
of at least twenty thousand persons, and
t'TIIEREAS the cessation of this work will defeat
in this district the object of our President in his program
of National recovery, and
WHEREAS, the position of the State is open to
serious criticism,
NOW THEREFORE, be it resolved that the : Chamber
of Commerce of the City of Huntington Beach go on record as
vigorously opposing and condemning any and all actions by
the State Attorney General that decrease employment, and
especially the present action above referred to.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Reso-
lution be sent to Harold Ickes, Secretary of the Interior
and Oil Dictator, Hugh S. Johnson, N.R.A. Administrator and
to John B. Elliott, all at -Washington, D. C. Also, a copy
to U. S. Webb, Attorney General of the State of California,
and to the Governor of the State of California.
Passed and adopted unanimously by the by the
Board of Directors of the Chamber of Commerce of Huntington
Beach, California.
T. B. Talbert
President.
Attest: 11ay S. Jackson Secretary.
NOVI THEREFORE be it resolved that the City Council
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of the City of Huntington Beach do hereby endorse and approve
said Resolution.
Passed and adopted by the City Council of the
City of Huntington Beach at a regular adjourned meeting of
said Council held on the 15th day of September, 1933-
E. G. CONRAD
1Jayor
ATTEST : C .R. FURR
City Clerk
STATE 0" CALIFORNIA, )
ss
County. of Orange
I, C. R. FURR, , City Clerk and ex-officio Clerk
of the City Council of the City of Huntington Beach.. Calif-
ornia, do hereby certify that the above and foregoing Re-
solution was regularly Introduced, passed and adopted by the
City Council of said City at a ,regular, adjourned meeting
thereof held on the 15th day of September, 1933, by the
following vote:
Ayes : Councilmen: Marion, Stevens, King, Conrad.
Noes: Councilmen: None
Absent : Councilmen: None
C. R. FURIH
�City Clerk and ex-officio Clerk
of the City Council of the City
of Huntington Beach.
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