Coll 28/112B Persia. Tabriz. Monthly dispatches of internal situation in Azerbaijan, & misc: reports.’ [‎133r] (266/451)

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stateioents about the a.X.o.C.
'ihis incident has given Ureat Britain the lead again in
her competition with America for first place in the Democrat
hyian of hate, xhe appearance of two British warships in the
rersian viulf was, of course, played up by the press, and Moscow
radio on the ^badan incident was quoted at length. Banging
further afield, the democrats began to canvass signatures for a
telegram to '<iavara as Saltaneh declaring that ^aerbaijan would
never sheathe the aword until Bahrein and Koweit had been return
ed to Persian sovereignty, and Biriya 1 s own newap&ner, Cgialaba .
apneared with the ancient fable of British connivance at the
trade in Baluchi slave-girls across the €hilf.
103. Trade union activity. The first "Congress of the Workers
and Toilers of AzerbaiJ?-n' : met in Tabriz on July ?3rd., under
the presidency The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent. of Mohamed Biriya and Sadiq Padegan. A delegate
from ^enjan took part. The report of its proceedings was pub
lished too late for comment in this Biary. The Congress elected
K. Louis 3aillant, Secretary of the World Federation of Trade
Uhlans, to be honorarv president, and ^.Kousnetsoff, Vice-
President of the orld Federation of Trade Uhions, to be an
honorary member of the executive committee. It was doubtless
from modesty only that the Confess did not presume to offer
this honour to the President of the Torld Federation of Trade
Unions.
M.Louis oaillant, who had been staying in Tehran, visited
Tabriz op July 25th. and 26th. He was accompanied by i3usta?a
ul 1 Aria, delegate of the Trade Unions of Syria and Lebanon, by
Dr. Kishavarz, of the Central Committee of the Tudeh T ar ty ? by
Mr. Husta, delegate of the Central Committee of the Irania n
Workers' Union, and by what the Turk! newspaper described as a
'number of other fellow-travellers' (Yoldashlar). Saillant spoke
both to a public meeting when he was welcomed to the town and to
the Congress of Azerbaijan Workers. If the published versions of
his speeches are accurate they contained nothing except the
usual platitudes, flattery of the Democrats and praises of the
Soviet Union. A Frenchman/was present, being one of the
few in the audience who could understand Saillant’s own words,
said his speech was 'moderate’. ’ustafa ul 'Aria, speaking in
Arabic, which fewer still could understand, is reported as
making a more violent attack on 'Imperialism'. Rusts and Kisha
varz, of course, made the most of the Abadan incident.
All Tabriz factories are now required to provide snorts
^rounds and equipment for their workers. The portly Hajjis who
still own the Khosrovi Leather Factory An East India Company trading post. - to whom unpaid exertion
must seem the ultimate insanity of the times - have bowed to the
duty of turning out, for nothing, footballs and football boots.
Hie Democratic Tarty is undertaking a new classification of
all workers, perhaps preparatory to a reorganization of the
present workers * Union.
1Q4. Finance. A fuller report of the speech made by Dr. Jsvid
at Tehran atihe end of June gives the following figures of
credits and supplies granted by the Central Government to Azer
baijan*
One million tomans 10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value. (from the Shah's privy purse) for the Tabriz
water supply project*
14 million cigarettes*
3 million metres of cotton piece goods*
300,000 tomans 10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value. for reconstruction work in Azerbaijan towns
(Javid asked for two million)*
373 cases of medicines*
2 trucks for telephone line repair works
2 tractors for the Department of Agriculture*
15 million tomans 10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value. to be credited to the Tabriz branch of the
Bank Hilli to cover local accounts.
Most of these grants, except perhaps the medicines and the
trucks are still promises and will probably remain so. The
Democrats' insistence that the Tabriz branch of the Bank Hilli
shall obtain and keep sufficient cash to cover all Azerbaijan
/accounts