'File 8/39 A. S. L. O.'s [Air Staff Liaison Officer] Reports' [‎51r] (101/416)

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The political Ajent took bquadron-Lcador Leads, the n,ev; .dr Staff
Liaison Officer, to call on His Highness the iluler of Bahrein on the 6th*
2. VISIT 113 .
(i) Hr. Partin C. Shallenourfer visited Bahrein on behalf .of the U.b.
Airty Pap Service. He called on the Political Aqcnt on the 3rd. He is visit
ing the Persian G-ulf to make corrections and additions to the United States
Army’s Air Navigational maps of the area for the United States Library of
Congress.
(ii) On 23rd. V//Cdr. B.A. Fraser and f/Cdr. L*G-. Burnand, T/ho is taking
over as S* 1*0., A.H*Q., A.A.F., Iraq, arrived in Bahrein. They left for
Habbaniya via Shaibah on the 23th.
3- B. 1 HRFIN PATIPILUP COl.IPTiNr LLlETPD .
The Bahr*cin Petroleum Company have announced an immediate increase in
v/ages of Re. t/- a dry to the v/hole of their -irab Staff. They expect to make
further increases to their ...rab artisans in the near future. This has been
done to discouragq, emigration to Dhahran 7/hcrc the .mrabian Aacrican Oil Com
pany have made large increases in the v/ages pr. id to their Labour in
Saudi .irabia. This course v.as dictated to them by Ton Baud vdio insisted that
they should pay their .Arab labour at the same rates as their Italian ■.and
Indian labour.
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_^s a result of the introduction, on instructions from Air Headquarters,
Iraq, of a new *ya uj e scale - a slight reduction on the rates previously paid -,
the .Arab labour employed by the Royal _J.r Force at HuharrtTwq 7. r cnt on strike on
the 3rd September. The majority of the strikers have since returned to work.
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_x 3 a result of the increase in wages made by the Bahrein Petroleum
Company to their Arab staff, the Bahrein Governraent have increased the exist
ing dearness allowances based on the salaries of all their employees. The
increases are from 25;4 15 ^, or 7z,o to 3Qo for those drawing salaries under
Rs.300/- pim; 3Qo on all salaries between As.301/- and Rs. 1,000/- p.m;#and
13 ;j on salaries above Rs. 1,000/- p.m. The rates for labour employed daily by
the public forks and other Government departments, have also been increased;
and dearness allo\a-necs on the allowances of those on the Civil List have
been raised from 39/ of the original alloem-nces to 5Qo»
Cn the 23th His Highness Shaikh air Salman bin Hamad XL luialifa,
K.C.I.F., Ruler of Bahrein, moved from his sumacr palace at Ouclhaibiyah to his
palace at Rafa* a.
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