'File 28/14 Labour employed by the Bahrain Petroleum Company Limited, Bahrain' [‎211r] (422/525)

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what action you propose to taico in thin matlc-r. Upto
nov: out or the 519 Indians reierred to alsove the
Oompany have registered oniy 25 agreements.
6. I may further . tate i'or your information that
the Bahrein Petroleum Go., Ltd., had no recruiting
office or Agent in Bombay. Their methods of indirect
recruitment were to invite emigrant-employees from
^ 1 India who defrayed their own expenses to Bahrein and
then employ them there. .iThen this indirect recruitment
, . was detected in Juiy 1936, the Gomjany ;,as ouxiged to
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, j^pen a peruianent recruiting office in Bombay. Since
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tnen the locd office of the Gom^any recruited about
k N ^ 462 Indians out or vhich about 202 have axready been
1. M/; repatriated to India for the following reasons :
(l) 135 persons returne to India after
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termination of their agreements by the Goaipany under
^clause lu for various reasons but in majority of
ca;>es for "inefficiency 1 *;
(2; 12 persons returnee after completion of
their contracts;
(3) 27 persons returned after teriniaating their
contracts on account of the alleged unsatisfactory
treatment;
(4) 4 persons returned but the reasons for
their return are not uno..n.
(5j 4 persons returned on account of sickness.
7. Practically every repatriate.i e.ai^rant ..hen
he reports to me makes various ^in.is of complaiuts.
kany of them tate tnat no useful purpo. e v/ill be
served by filing a written complaint inlividually but
they urge that Government should appoint an En-uiry
Gommittee to investigate tae various complaints which
tney ma^e and nece.isary action snould be tci^en in
general. Tne number of complaints does not show any
sign of decrease but on the contrary they aave
increased and the local ne s papers hai jiven wide
pubiici ty
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