due largely to overproduction, theft and growing ire of the majors. The majors lobbied hard at both state and federal levels for proration limits and other measures to reduce the flood of supply.

Seeing this massive threat to their livelihoods, in what had become a very personal business, many independents resisted such measures. In 1931, martial law was even declared in East Texas with National Guard troops sent by Governor Ross S. Sterling to enforce the limits.

Under this backdrop, independent producers began to organize. While regional groups formed in each significant field throughout Texas, it was the East Texas Field that gave rise to the Independent Petroleum Association of Texas in 1933. This group would later reconstitute itself as TIPRO in 1946.

Led by Glenn McCarthy and Jack Porter, theSome 1,500 people participated in a protest march against racism and discrimination through the city of Amsterdam on Saturday afternoon. The march started on the Beursplein and ended on the Museumplein, ANP reports.

The march was organized by Comite 21 Maart. People from all races participated, including a black Sinterklaas on his horse. Many people joined the march enroute. The protesters carried banners reading: "Refugees welcome, racism not!" and "All black life matters".

Several people spoke on the Museumplein. Among them was Oosman Yoonis, from refugee collective We Are Here. "It seems like we have forgotten that we are all people. The people on the Macedonian border could have been us."

Sometime NL Times writer Marvin Hotstam made a similar call in Afro Magazine - all people are just people. "It