OILWORKERS ON STRIKE.
TROUBLE IN PERSIA. INDIANS TO BE REPATRIATED. DELHI, March 30. According to advices from the Persian Gulf, there is a serious strike among employees of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company at Adabeh. About 4,000 Indians, Arabs, and Persians are affected. They refused to work, demanding enhanced pay as a preliminary to discussion of other grievances. The company gave an 80 per cent increase last year. Consequently it refused the new demand, and issued a notice stating that all who refused to resume work would be considered to have broken their agreement and would be dismissed. Two thousand refused, and are now being repatriated to India. The remainder returned to work.
The trouble, it appears, originated among Sikhs, who coerced the others to join the movement. The Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, with several high officials, visited Abadeh to make inquiries. They found that the strikers' allegations were not substantiated, and that the wage scale was liberal.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 77, 31 March 1922, Page 5
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