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The August 16, 1935 was established the Union of Petroleum Workers of Mexico and one of his first acts was to draft a proposed contract in requesting 40 hours a day and payment of full wages during sickness and was designed to replace the various collective agreements governing labor relations in the oil companies, which were sent. On November 3, 1937 were required to sign the collective agreement and the May 17 notice to the union on strike for not meeting that demand. In the early days of June, the union sued the oil companies to the General Board of Conciliation and Arbitration. The strike finally broke out on May 31 and was lifted on June 9.

The struggle of oil workers was welcomed by the President and the people, despite problems caused by oil shortages. Oil Expropriation


President Lazaro Cardenas had meetings with the 3, 6 and 7 March. According to witnesses, at the meeting of March 7 when President Lázaro Cárdenas requested payment of 26 million as a guarantee to end the strike, one of the owners of the companies asked, "Who guarantees it?" . "The President" said Lazaro Cardenas, which the owner replied
On Friday March 18, 1938, foreign companies, advised by people within government that the president planned something "strong" against them, declared at the last moment to be willing to make the payment, but President Cárdenas had already made a decision: to 10 pm said the expropriation by which the oil wealth, which exploited the foreign companies, became the property of the Mexican nation. Consequences


The UK broke off diplomatic relations with Mexico, the Netherlands and the United States enacted a trade embargo, and withdrew all its staff. The U.S. Treasury stopped purchasing oil and Mexican silver and gave preference to all its oil from Venezuela.
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difficult times for the country and that gasoline stockpiles depleted and there was no knowledge to synthesize the tetraethyl lead used in those days to grade the octane of gasoline. It brought together leading experts from around the country to find the process. An accident killed most of the staff and delayed the investigation when he was more advanced. In a second attempt met the most outstanding chemistry students from the National Polytechnic Institute and the National Autonomous University of Mexico and after much effort succeeded in synthesizing the compound