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Coll 28/120(2) ‘Persia. Ahwaz – Consular Diaries’ [25r] (49/224)
The record is made up of 1 file (110 folios). It was created in 7 Mar 1946-5 Feb 1948. 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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have also heen sent to the Division*
(25)» Col 0 Jan-Poulad, late of the road police,
has "been transferred to Tehran, and is to "be posted to the
Inspection and Conscription Department.
PROVINCIAL boungil
r«a*.*r n
(36)
The Ahwaz Provincial Council was formally
the IChuzistan Club hy the
opened at an evening ceremony at
Governor-General on the 2nd’ May 0 About 300 notables, in
cluding the two Consuls, were present, and some speeches
were made* The Governor-General said he felt honoured to
open the first Provincial Council ever elected in Persia under
the Constitution* The principal speaker of the 12 elected
members said he hoped that the capital would now take more
notice of and give more facilities to the ancient but neg
lected province of Khuzistan, so that it might regain its
historic splendours of Achaemenian and Sassanian times* All
of the elected members were members of the ’’Sa’adat’’ party,
and no other party showed any activity in connexion with nhe
elections. The council is said to have elected one of their
members, Atesfcedi, as their president on the 24th May and to
have ’*started* wcrk !f though the complete absence of any i*e~
gulations or precedents cramps their style.
ANGLO IR ANIAN OIL COMPAN Y
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(27) o > May has- been full of incidents and it would
take too much space to record them all in detail here:
separate reports have been submitted. Short notes on some of
the principal events of the month are as follows :~
May 1st. A holiday with full pay was declared by the AIOC,
as the result of a request from the Prime Minister which was
agreed to by the Company* Neither the Governor-General nor
this Consulate had been informed and no Persian concern, nor
the Imperial Bank: of Iran, closed, a fact which earned them
some abuse* The principal event was a surprisingly well or
ganised parade of workers at Abadan, shepherded by Tudeh.
members decorated with arm-bands.
May 5th. Strike of some 500 men in the distillation and
asphalt plants at Abadan: settled by the Company acceding to
practically all the workers’ demands.
May 10th . Strike at Agha Jari, of almost all the 2,400 workers
Well organised and controlled by Tudeh agents, with picketing
and intimidation.
May 16th . New scales of wages announced by the Company re-
vising the basis of remuneration: rations of foodstuffs being
abolished and pay increased to a minimum wage of 35 Rials per
day - which means about twice as much money as the men previous
ly received.
May 17th . Incident at Bandar Mashur: woman died in child-
birth: negligence by doctor alleged by the Tudeh- party.
May 20th. Large meeting at Abadan, t^/ith inflammatory speeches.
May 22nd*' Arrival of Committee of lour* persons from Tehran,
with instructions to examine the whRle question of the com
plaints against the Company: they visited Haft Kel, Agha Jari,
and Abadan. •
May 25th. Strikers at Agha Jari went back to work, the Com
pany having acceeded to most of their demands, and referred the
question of pay for the period of the strike to the decision
of the commission: with the final result that the back pay
was given.
Labour trouble has been widespread over the
who],© of the area of the Oil Company’s operations. It is not
disputed by the Company that the accommodation available for
the workers has been and still is inadequate, especially at
Agha Jari:
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Monthly consular diaries submitted by HM Consul-General at Ahwaz [Ahvāz] in Persia [Iran]. The diaries cover the period January 1946 to December 1947, and describe affairs in Ahwaz under various subheadings. Subjects covered include: British officials and visitors; the evacuation of British troops from the region as part of an Anglo-Soviet agreement following the end of the Second World War; Persian officials and visitors; movements of foreigners; Soviet interests; communications, including railways and postal services; agricultural production, including food supply, food prices, and price controls; tribes, including the Bakhtiari; local politics, including the activities of local political parties, in particular the Tudeh Party of Iran; local elections; local press; internal security, and Persian military activities in the region; regional affairs, including the region’s Arab population and affairs in Luristan [Lorestān]; health, including diseases and medicine; education; meteorological observations, including rainfall statistics; the affairs of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC), including a description of events at Abadan on 14 July 1946, in which a riot at the AIOC refinery resulted in the deaths of at least twenty-four people (ff 39-42). Also included in the file is a report entitled an ‘Appreciation of local conditions from November 1945 to May 1946’ (ff 44-48).
The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
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- 1 file (110 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the front to the rear 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 111; 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.
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- Coll 28/120(2) ‘Persia. Ahwaz – Consular Diaries’
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- front, front-i, 2r:111v, 111v, back
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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