OIL EMPLOYEES’ STRIKE
AT ANGLO-PERSIAN COMPANY’S WORKS. Delhi, March 2D. According to cables from the Persian Gulf, there is a serious strike among the employees of the AngloPersian Oil Company at Abaden. About 4060 Indians, Arabs, and Persians arc affected. They refused to work, and demanded increased pay as a preliminary to tho discussion of other grievances.
The company gave an 80 per rent, increase last year, and consequently refused the now demand, and issued a notice that all who refused to resume work would be considered to have broken their agreement, and would bo dismissed. Two thousand refused, and are now being repatriated to India. The remainder returned to work. The trouble appears to have originated among tho Sikhs, who coerced the others to join the movement. The jiolitieal resident in the Persian Gulf, with several high officials, visited Abaden to make inquiries, and found that the strikers’ allegations were not substantiated and that the wage scale was liberal. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 159, 31 March 1922, Page 5
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