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Coll 28/9(2) ‘Persia; Internal affairs; including new Labour Law of 1946 and general labour conditions in Persia.’ [48r] (95/134)
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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An appreciation of the
*
Political situation in
East Iran
1939 J
A travelled American who recently spent several
days in Tehran and Meshed on his way to India said that
what struck him chiefly about the country was its truly
remarkable resemblance to the U.S.S.R*; the same prevailing
poverty, the same apathy, the people cowed by the sinister
and ubiquitous activities of the secret police; the same
pointless and pettifogging regulations unintelligently
enforced in such a way as to give the maximum of trouble
with the minimum result. As far as Meshed is concerned
the picture is by no means overdrawn. Hand in hand with
outward improvements goes a steadily decreasing power of
resistance to the sinister maisma of state interference from
which there is no escape.
2. But although discontent with the present regime
is almost universal, tribal chiefs, landowners and mullahs
have for several years now been so oppressed that they
have to a large extent lost their former influence and in the
absence of leaders no overt opposition seems at all probable.
The only manifestation of dissatisfaction comes from the few
who have had recourse to brigandage for their livelihood. The
past year has undoubtedly witnessed a definite lowering of
the standards of security on the roads, culminating in October
in a particularly daring hold up on the main Meshed-Tehran road
some 30 miles only from Meshed, in wnich six or seven
brigands closed the road for four hours in the afternoon,
held up over a dozen vehicles and decamped with cash believed
to amount to 120,000 rials.
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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).
- Extent and format
- 1 file (65 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
- Physical characteristics
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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- Title
- Coll 28/9(2) ‘Persia; Internal affairs; including new Labour Law of 1946 and general labour conditions in Persia.’
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:7v, 13r:17v, 20r:66v, back-i, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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