Coll 28/112A ‘Persia. Tabriz – Monthly despatches of internal situation in Azerbaijan & misc. reports.’ [‎88r] (176/1237)

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of ttw Const itatloa, August 5th., out nothing is hhaut hi a having
ta^ea aiV direct part in she disorders. Another t^ii^utyi Mir
Jaaiar Fishavari, hitherto a prominent Freedomj/rjbsiMJU fxtaading
ale ststy la iahri^* [ ^ t A 1
’X*h# Agrarian. a&&;>algn coatinues in dast^rh Anarhaijrn . fy aov the
Uudeh policy in the natter of agricultural r^ai? fea rfftd^ae >j little
better formulated* Xt appuara that th--y hav« ^rUWM^nuia
p^yavla to the l^idlord of ou« eighth or one tenth, instead of the
t~4aitlohal third or* fifth of tfru crop. F. ra bailiffs, de^o^iring of
iwc«lvin fc any assistance from the Oeod&merU, are now appealto
the Xudeh Party for asaletence in collectiirg the landl o rdr due• it is
%li.j practice for the fudeh secretary to give them letters add re esc d to
tn» pess^t© of their Villages, hut, even so, the peae-uxts ao -ear to
h# staadiiig xina uau rsi sing to , ; ivc morr then --vi ei,.nth - gutting thie
fe hai:*e aside and telling tut bailiffs to tafce it or leave it. Some
villagoa h&v objected to the aherini; out being done through bailiffs
(the reason lor this is not far to seek) ana nave demanded that the
landlords come in person to receive tfccir share* Few if any landlords
huVe uaiua fo uo so ainciB t»-ie Uigvan -A-ucident*
Vhe campaign iiaa now spread to Keasieh, where the Acting Severn or-3
Uenerai has puhlik.hcu a notice saying that the peasants must pay their
l&hhlorug the i,». 4 uu share as in xom^r * e art • ^-f t hsy re I use tney will
be prosecuted* He has bean vi^arotuiy attached in the Tudeh px^eee as
a nri, and- uut Amsd Vat an, the Hesaich fudeh leader, in a later speech
a plained that the Party did not mean all peasants to refuse to pay
i4ut cut only those of the thirty villages whose crops were devastated
wy nail oune let* (ni&ry ho* 10, para 1^1^ •
ihs icu. contiuu ace of the agrarian canpai^n has led the local
^overnweiit tc appoint a oom^iaaloa to study the .inet tion. The result
of their dwlih^zuitiaaa was, p. maps inevitably, that no reduction On
tin.- proportion pal i in piwicus ye^rs was possible. Notices to tale
affect were gent into the villages, but the viliuga orinches of iudeh
prcmptly dwL wr,vvh tuCM, and the decision remains e dead letter. The
Fro c€ outer dcnei*al of the two list .--ns, meanwhile, apparently at variance
v»ith the rest si local 0overt4»eut, has ruled teat of fleers of
^ cnci rmcrie have no power to Intervene in disputes about rent between
pwuranic a.&i their laodiorcie. All such disputes must be referred to the
approp.t*late j udiclal uutnorit ie a.
There have been mo IN* during tha last thre? v.eeke of possible
aificr^ncs?© of opinion among uViu leaders of the three anti-reactionary
ar»*uifcutians* Suan differences oaix havu little- prtsexit iaporteJice, of
Cuii'se, wn#x fc fe tnc general line is laid down by another power, but they
&ay have *. certain interest as showing lines of post idle future
uevalupaent in this provincu. Moha^ed birlya of tha v rice re Union
querns to have had a aaua>.hle with All Amir Knizi oi the fun eh i-'arty,
ordered the Union’s ixame to be erased from notices where it h^d
heen printed as joint sponsor of a special religious service to oe held
fox* the duaeh members killed at hlgvastt* More la pax* tent, perhaps, is
iu* apparent x‘ivsJLry between the Freedom Front and the fudeh iarty.
(uoe next para)*
1 ? 7 . Vi * -arw . Aa iu»* t>«.* iudieat.d la PWVlou. Oisrles,
vhe Frau dam Front in Asorbaijan ha® never been result tmo&y tio remain
■ o*it an ai. oeiation of editors ana newspaper proprietors* It has now
uufrex'ed a nanism which may •■oil lead to its dissppesrance from local
politico fur a tine. Altar nuaerouc aoatings ana much erguaent, All
dhhdisuary, Mir «lcsfnr rishsvari, Ksbibullch ^gussi-aen, honameii Ali
^ulaui, All iiaessn Birfeng, nil Masninuhi and about 40 othur Freedca
1 renters have split off fr >m the organijsstion ana l ^raed s ^^unlsr
pel it led oarty cdled the Democratic Farty oi Aserbsij sn % i ir^el
icmakrutl Ax^uaijan - Aserbaij&n Denokrat Fircssi)* The Pi-rty has
taken avparste premises in the to.m, and on DepUmbar Urd. it produced
a double manifejatc in rex^sisn snu iurki* ^hls d 'cuss^nt makao no
m*ttwia>A ox witiu-r the iudun Farty or the Freedom Front. ?he policy it
^ets forth is, however, practically indictingulshsole ir^i theirs*
It hus, perhaps, a stroitger bias towards local autonomy for Aserbaijssi,
urging, for instance, oeddeo the recognition of furki a© an equal
official lafiguage with Xersiun, the creation of an Azerbaijani
/University.