Coll 28/120 ‘Persia. Ahwaz – Consular diaries.’ [‎274r] (548/669)

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can have the least effect. It is greatly
regretted that owing to shortage
Messrs- Gray Macitw Tie have removed
representative from Ahwaz*
(or will need in the near future /
irom England ? sucn as a representative of
who would be in alc~e touch with
making a coupleitrim's home each ”\ r e.
ac uv _ Uj.i. travel*! mg round tne area- In connection
with machinery, notably agricultural , local demand'
] o o u , 36 mat tnere be efficient arrangeraents on the
!>-o o -v-Q.c repairs and mainteiiance f or the machines-
It still remains to be seen whether ./Uiwaz
anr become the commercial centre of Khuz-ista'
ohis depends on whether Khorramshahr or Bandar Rh
becomes the principal port, since nov;
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there wourd oe little purpo,__
Anwaz ? and Ahwaz as a commercial
justified as being the entr
^* _ . •^ ne aitem; ^s by the Tudeh party to gain
r r a m^i uence in may be said to have failed*
fney succeeded in p ‘evoking a strihe at the cotton
spinning factory An East India Company trading post. , wnos© main effect was to nut the
Persian officials into a flat epin- Tne factory An East India Company trading post.
directors remedied a few outstanding grounds for
iTh a h tS 7 n f h - • lon ‘» 8 ~ cut stood, up against
maxij.ydemanG .3 io* large increases of salary, which
woul^ indeed have been very undesirable* a later
s^riite was met oy me directors with an uncompromising
refusal to comply with the Union's demands and the
seeming of those wh •> continued to strike. Tne
Tiuen party leaders in Ahwaz are not Khuaistanis
and uhe locals see no reason why they should be used
as tne too.' of outsiders. Moreover there was a
rumour that some ox the leaders had demanded money
iron the directors, wiich did nothing to increase
✓neip popularity« There have been similar charges
c x corrupLion in the ‘Tudeh pursy in the north of the
province, vnere tus party is 1 imewise sinking back
moriDunal s^ate. It cannot however be exuecued
uOa ^ Uie iudeh party in Teheran will accept these
reverses lying down; and while for a time the spectre
°:^ari Ahwaz summer may preserve Ahwaz from a counter
attacit by the heav^ guns of the party, election
time wi*n doubtless bring them in force. It would
s - f m ho we v T er un* ikely that tney 7 / 1 I ~ ever achieve anv
no v-abi e success unless tne landowners behave with
extraordinary foolishness and provocation; general
_ e vhargy coupled with a dislike of Ten ranis and
Russians should p-^ove formidable obstacles to* the
party's progress.
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sign;
Altnougn in the north of the province, first
p.i e elec -ion activity are appearing, in
ies of
An^zis^an a.M is Quiet* of the four der
dhuzistan falling- within this Consular district, th^ee
lave provea adequate and should preeusiably be returned
again/