A SERIOUS STRIKE.
PERSIAN OIL-FIELDS DISPUTE. THOUSANDS OF WORKERS IDLE. By Telegrapt.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Delhi, March 29. According to Persian Gulf cables there is a serious strike among the employees of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company at Abaden. About 4000 Indians, Arabs, and Persians ate affected. They refused to work, demanding enhanced pay as a preliminary to discussion about other grievances. The company gave 80 per cent, increase last year and consequently refused the new demand and issued a notice stating that all refusing 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 Abaden to make inquiries and found the strikers’ allegations not substantiated and the wage scale liberal.
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Taranaki Daily News, 31 March 1922, Page 5
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155A SERIOUS STRIKE. Taranaki Daily News, 31 March 1922, Page 5
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