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Coll 28/48 'Persia. Anglo-Persian Oil Company; Relations with Persian Govt.' [13r] (36/552)
The record is made up of 1 volume (272 folios). It was created in 26 Sep 1923-22 Jun 1931. It was written in English and French. 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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remonstrance* of the Persian Government, this
contravention is still openly made and the majority of the
clerks and non-technical employees of the Company in
Abadan, the highest centre of the Company in Persia, are
still Indians. If the Covernment would take a cornua, it
would he shown that the Company, so as to continue in this
way and to prevent Persians from entering and remaining in
its service whether as clerks or aa ordinary workmen, is
always on the watch to prevent Persian employees from
becoming a majority and it takes care that the latter
should not exceed a number which it has fixed as being
harmful to the Comptuiy^ interests.
If from time to time the Company, for deception or aa
a formality, advertises in the Press of the Capital for
employees and engages a few well-known characters for work
in the South, as soon aa it is seen that the number of
Persian employees exceeds the limit set by the Company,
the latter at onoe cither turns out s large number on the
nlea that they are inciting the workmen to strike and gets
them expelled from the place where they were working, or it
dismisses them on the pretext of cutting down expenses or
of reducing the programme of work. They have never told
Hafinil'i
us why, in view of the^condition laid down in Article 12,
a reduction of the budget means that 500 Indian clerks and
accountants retain their jobs and only a poor Persian
clerks who is ready to do the work of any one of the 500
Indiana at half the pay, is affected. 'Thy is a reduction
of work the reason for the dismissal of Persian carrwmters.
Ironworkers and foremen whan a larger number of Indiana
doing similar work are unaffected?
With the definite condition laid down in the D f Arcy
Concession and the right of priority and precedence for
Persian subjects in the employ of the Company in Persia, 1$
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Correspondence, memoranda, and other papers, concerning relations between the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC) and the Persian Government, and between the British and Persian governments over APOC operations in Persia [Iran]. The file covers: reports of attacks on APOC drilling operations at Bikarz [Bīd Karz] and Mishun in 1923; Soviet propaganda published against APOC in the Persian province of Khuzistan in 1927; disturbances amongst Persian APOC employees at Abadan in May and June 1929, and the British response to these disturbances, including the despatch of naval vessels to the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ; copies of a 1931 memorandum entitled 'South Persian Oilfields Defence Scheme', produced by the Overseas Defence Committee at the Foreign Office (ff 76-86); a 1931 'Report on the Tribes in the Area exploited by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company Ltd', prepared by R J Moneypenny at HM Consulate, Ahwaz [Ahvāz] (ff 24-54); anti-APOC articles published in the newspaper Shafaq-e-Surkh in 1931, which criticise the D'Arcy Concession of 1901 (translations enclosed, ff 6-16), and the subsequent protest at the content of the articles made by the British Government to the Persian Government. The volume's principal correspondents include: HM Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary A diplomatic representative who ranks below an ambassador. The term can be shortened to 'envoy'. at Tehran, Robert Henry Clive; HM Vice-Consul at Mohammerah [Khorramshahr], Captain E W Fletcher; the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .
The volume contains a small number of items in French, being correspondence exchanged between the British and Persian Governments and three copies of the Persian newspaper Le Messager de Teheran (ff 61-66).
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 volume (272 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 268; 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.
The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers, nor does it include the leading and ending flyleaves.
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- Coll 28/48 'Persia. Anglo-Persian Oil Company; Relations with Persian Govt.'
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- 6r:16v
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- Shafaq-e-Surkh
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