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Coll 28/9(2) ‘Persia; Internal affairs; including new Labour Law of 1946 and general labour conditions in Persia.’ [‎36r] (71/134)

The record is made up of 1 file (65 folios). It was created in 31 May 1938-13 Mar 1947. 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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COPY.
BRITISH LEGATION,
(E 120/120/34).
No. 396.
(823/3/39).
TEHRAN.
20th December 1939.
My Lord,
I have the honour to report that the Shah*s return
from a visit to his northern estates and to the Turkoman races
has resulted in a crop of arrests* as not infrequently happens.
ihe most important of those who have had the misfortune to
incur the Shah s displeasure are Murteza Quli Samsam Bakhtiari
(No. 49 in Personalities) and Amir Seham-ud-Din Ghaffari (No. 89
in Personalities).
The former was the last of the important Bakhtiari
Khans to escape trouble. He was detained by the police for
two days, and then released. No reason for this has yet
transpired.
Amir Seham-ud-Din Ghaffari has recently been head
of the Government industrial school (“hunaristan), and was
reported to have c 0 me under Nazi influence, a thing which his
German education and the presence of numerous Germans
participating in the industrial development of this country
would render quite likely. No reason for his arrest and that
of his eldurly father on 21st November has been given, and no
one has been allowed to see them. But he is still drawing his
salary in prison as head of the industrial school, while the
police are examining his "dossier", and the general rumour
connects him with a design to form a sort of Nazi party in Iran.
The remaining arrests, said to number about thirty,
include some army officers, and the charges are said to be
varied.
I
The Right Honourable
The Viscount Halifax,
K.G.= G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E
Foreign Office.
have, etc.,
(Sd.) R.W .Bullard.
, etc.

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Correspondence, reports and other papers submitted by British officials in Iran, relating to the movements and actions of the Shah of Iran, Reza Shah Pahlavi, and labour legislation passed by the Government of Iran. The file is a direct chronological continuation of Coll 28/9 ‘Persia; Internal affairs; Shah’s tours in Persia: general situation reports’ (IOR/L/PS/12/3404). The file includes:

  • Two reports written by the British Consul-General for Khorasan and Sistan (Captain Giles Frederick Squire). Both are entitled ‘An appreciation of the political situation in East Iran’, and dated 31 May 1938 (ff 59-65) and 6 December 1938 (ff 48-54) respectively.
  • A report describing the Shah’s visit to Ahwaz [Ahvāz] in March 1939 (ff 39-43).
  • A copy of a report, written by the Press Attaché at the British Legation at Tehran (Ann Katherine Swynford Lambton), dated 1 May 1941, on the state of public opinion in Iran in response to events in the Second World War in Iran’s neighbours, Iraq and Russia (ff 33-34).
  • Papers relating to new labour legislation introduced by the Government of Iran in 1946, including a translation of regulations concerning the duties, organisation and procedure of the Supreme Labour Council (ff 18-19), and a translation of minimum wage regulations (ff 8-12).
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1 file (65 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.

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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 66; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.

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