Status Updates From Oil!

"If it was the duty of the young to sacrifice themselves for the old, how could there ever be any progress in the world?" - "Oil!" by Upton Sinclair.

"Do you remember our oil strike, and what we read about it in the papers? Suppose you had never been to Paradise, and didn’t know the strikers, but had got all your impressions from the Angel City newspapers! Well, that’s the way it seems to me about Russia; this is the biggest strike in history, and the strikers have won, and seized the oil wells."