مجموعة ١٢٠/٢٨(٢) "بلاد فارس. الأهواز - اليوميات القنصلية" [و‎‎٢‎٥] (٢٢٤/٤٩)

have also heen sent to the Division*
(25)» Col 0 Jan-Poulad, late of the road police,
has "been transferred to Tehran, and is to "be posted to the
Inspection and Conscription Department.
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The Ahwaz Provincial Council was formally
the IChuzistan Club hy the
opened at an evening ceremony at
Governor-General on the 2nd’ May 0 About 300 notables, in
cluding the two Consuls, were present, and some speeches
were made* The Governor-General said he felt honoured to
open the first Provincial Council ever elected in Persia under
the Constitution* The principal speaker of the 12 elected
members said he hoped that the capital would now take more
notice of and give more facilities to the ancient but neg
lected province of Khuzistan, so that it might regain its
historic splendours of Achaemenian and Sassanian times* All
of the elected members were members of the ’’Sa’adat’’ party,
and no other party showed any activity in connexion with nhe
elections. The council is said to have elected one of their
members, Atesfcedi, as their president on the 24th May and to
have ’*started* wcrk !f though the complete absence of any i*e~
gulations or precedents cramps their style.
ANGLO IR ANIAN OIL COMPAN Y
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(27) o > May has- been full of incidents and it would
take too much space to record them all in detail here:
separate reports have been submitted. Short notes on some of
the principal events of the month are as follows :~
May 1st. A holiday with full pay was declared by the AIOC,
as the result of a request from the Prime Minister which was
agreed to by the Company* Neither the Governor-General nor
this Consulate had been informed and no Persian concern, nor
the Imperial Bank: of Iran, closed, a fact which earned them
some abuse* The principal event was a surprisingly well or
ganised parade of workers at Abadan, shepherded by Tudeh.
members decorated with arm-bands.
May 5th. Strike of some 500 men in the distillation and
asphalt plants at Abadan: settled by the Company acceding to
practically all the workers’ demands.
May 10th . Strike at Agha Jari, of almost all the 2,400 workers
Well organised and controlled by Tudeh agents, with picketing
and intimidation.
May 16th . New scales of wages announced by the Company re-
vising the basis of remuneration: rations of foodstuffs being
abolished and pay increased to a minimum wage of 35 Rials per
day - which means about twice as much money as the men previous
ly received.
May 17th . Incident at Bandar Mashur: woman died in child-
birth: negligence by doctor alleged by the Tudeh- party.
May 20th. Large meeting at Abadan, t^/ith inflammatory speeches.
May 22nd*' Arrival of Committee of lour* persons from Tehran,
with instructions to examine the whRle question of the com
plaints against the Company: they visited Haft Kel, Agha Jari,
and Abadan. •
May 25th. Strikers at Agha Jari went back to work, the Com
pany having acceeded to most of their demands, and referred the
question of pay for the period of the strike to the decision
of the commission: with the final result that the back pay
was given.
Labour trouble has been widespread over the
who],© of the area of the Oil Company’s operations. It is not
disputed by the Company that the accommodation available for
the workers has been and still is inadequate, especially at
Agha Jari: