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'File 28/14 Labour employed by the Bahrain Petroleum Company Limited, Bahrain' [60r] (120/525)
The record is made up of 1 file (258 folios). It was created in 1 Nov 1935-9 Dec 1938. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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Paragraph 2> (Cont'd) It is impossible to state at present what
percentage will be British and what percentage
(b) American as this will depend upon our ability
to find satisfactory men in England.
Your reference to Asiatics - assume means
Class II-A and Class II-B personnel. We
expect to have at the time of construction
vrork some 250 British Indians of all kinds.
After the construction work this number will
be reduced by about 150.
The better class Indians will live in Manama
and be transported back and forth. The others
will be housed temporarily in barestis pending
building of pemanent quarters for them which
cannot be started until,completion of the
building program for the Europeans and Americans.
(c) Old Camp (Jebel) - There are accommodations for
sixty men, living two in a room, but we do not
plan to use this Camp for anything except
over-flow and I should say there will probably
be a maximum of 20 men.
New Camp (El Alwwi) - There are 40 rooms for
bachelors in the present Staff Houses and we
are building 52 additional rooms which makes
a total of 72. Temporarily there will be tiro
men in a room so that these houses will accom
modate 144 men. In addition to these we are
building 96 rooms in temporary buildings.
There will be 8 buildings with 12 rooms in
each. These rooms will be 12* x 17*. The
buildings will be arranged in groups of four
with a central bath house in each group.
These quarters will later accommodate permanetit
bachelors.
Married Quarters - At present there are 25 conpletad
and an additional seven have been approved. V
More will be built depending upon the number
of married men remaining on the permanent
organization. There are five families living
in Manama temporarily and one group of five
bachelors also.
(d) Has been answered above. The type of temporary
houses will be wood frame filled in with feroosh
and gutch, very similar to the permanent houses
but less the verandas. The verandas will be
replaced by shade 6' wide along the entire length
of each building.
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The file contains correspondence between the Bahrain Petroleum Company Limited (BAPCO) representative, the Adviser to the Governement of Bahrain, the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. at Bahrain and the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. on the employment of Bahrain, Indian, British and American labour by BAPCO for the construction of the Refinery in Bahrain, and on the working conditions in the BAPCO camps. The file includes draft contracts and correspondence on cases of unlawful emigration from India and Persia to Bahrain and on the working conditions of Indian labour.
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- 1 file (258 folios)
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The documents in the file are arranged in chronological order. There are notes at the end of the file (folios 231-259). The notes refer to documents within the file; they give a brief description of the correspondence with a reference number, which refers back to that correspondence in the file.
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The main foliation, which should be used for referencing, is circled in pencil, in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio. It begins on the front cover, on number 1, and ends on the last folio of writing, on number 259. There is another foliation sequence, not circled and incomplete.
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- IOR/R/15/2/1717
- Title
- 'File 28/14 Labour employed by the Bahrain Petroleum Company Limited, Bahrain'
- Pages
- 3r:4v, 19r:20v, 31r:32v, 35r:35v, 37r:37v, 39r:39v, 53r:53v, 55r:55v, 59r:61v, 62r:62v, 65r:66v, 73r:73v, 77r:78v, 85r:85v, 103r:104v, 159r:159v, 168r:168v, 174r:174v, 180r:180v, 182r:182v
- Author
- Smith, George William Reginald
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