INDIAN UNREST

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 10853, 19 March 1921, Page 9

INDIAN UNREST

OIL WORKERS STRIKE ATTEMPT TO OBSTRUCT ibXIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS. EXTRAORDINARY BEHAVIOURBy Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright a jinn and A.£l. Cable Association. (Received March 19, 12.10 a.m.) DELHI, March 17. The Burmese oil workers at Rangoon struck on March loth, demanding increased wages. The trouble is now spreading, and 7000 leave been rendered idle. The; demand for an increase, which was caused through the advance in The price of petrol, has been refused. Disorder is feared. Two hundred and fifty police have heen dispatched to protect the plant. At the first clay’s examinations at Benares, university non-co-operators lay on the, hall steps to prevent the ent®j< of professors and students. The latter jumped over them, or entered through the windows. On the second day the non-co-operators squatted closely before the entrance. One student failed to enter. On the third day the men squatted at the front entrances on grass mats, selling beads and invoking Providence to make the examinees unsuccessful. Beads were spread on the steps to frighten the religious. All entered, amid loud curses from the obstructioniste. The students are fearing that the same tactics will be used at the forthcoming Allahabad university examination.