'File 8/16 Bahrain Intelligence Summaries' [‎155r] (309/330)

Durin ; thu afternoon the Hon’ble the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency.
.invested the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. (British) with the
Dr. r. Harrison (Anerican) with the Kaisar-i-Hind Gold Medal,
Khan Bahadur Saiyid Abdur Rezzaq (Arab) with the badge of a
Kh^n Bahadur and Rao Sahib Jashannial (Indian) with the Rao
Sahib’s badge*.
Tho^Bahrain Petroleum Corapany Linitqd,
(i) Mr, Ward P. Anderson, General Manager and Chief Local
Representative of the Bahrain Petroleum Company Limited,
returned on the 4th from a short visit to the Unted States.
(ii) On the 12th the Hon’bl-e the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. visited
the Refinery construction work and afterwards lunched with the
General Manager and Mr. H.B. Nichols the Assistant Vice
President of the Company.
The,.Arabian American Oil Corapany, Dhahran
Reference paragraph No* 182 of Intelligence Summary
No. 20 of 1944. ^
The Assistant Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. ' was present at a meetin-
between the representatives of the Company and their dismissed
Indian employees in Bahrain on the 7th. The Company represen
tatives informed the men that they would be prepared* to
provide all their Indian employees with cooked food from the
10th of November and asked if.th^y would be willinr to return
to work forthwith or whether they still desired to'go to
Indian The employees appeared to have unanimously decided
against returning to work.
^Later the same day the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. discussed the
situation with the Company’s representatives and suggested
that they should make an alteration which would much simplify
the text of the letter which they proposed to address to each
one Oj. their disgruntled employees, sc as to make no mention
of the cause of the present disagreement and further that
tney should grant tho men half pay as an ox gratia payment for
the period during which the discussions had been taking place.
The representatives of th~ Company agreed to the Political
Agent s suggestions but stated that trn-y must obtain the formal
approval of the General Manager.
Unfortunately the management of the Company refused
point blank to alter the letter or to grant any allowance to
the men for the period they had been off duty. Thus when the
Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. himself met the men on the 8th he could but
suggest that they should give the Company me more trial and
not unnaturally they were nit willing to do. so. The position
on the mainland seemed to be deteriorating, so arrangements
werj made for the Assistant Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. to VJ o to Dhahran
to investigate the situation in person later in the month*
Meteorological
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97
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14 th Nov
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T. HICKINBOTHi.fl
Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. , Bahrain.