PERSIAN OILFIELDS
WORKERS STRIKE FOR INCREASED PAY. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. DELHI, March 29. According to cables from' the Persian Gulf, there is a serious strike among the employees of the Anglo-Per-sian Oil Company at Abaden. About 4000 Indians, Arabs, and Persians are, affected. They refused to work, and demanded increased pay as a preliminary to the discussion of other grievances. The company gave ap 80 per cent. increase last year, and' consequently refused the new-demand, and issued, a notice, 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 appears to have originated among the Sikhs, who coerced the others to join the movement. The political resident in the Persian Gulf, with several high officials, visited Abadan to make inquiries, and found that the strikers’ allegations were not substantiated and that the wage scale was liberal.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11173, 31 March 1922, Page 5
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