'File 10/1 G BAPCO labour' [‎236r] (475/586)

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Major T. Hlckinbotham, O .B.R.,
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.
€. Dalrymple Belgrave, Esq,, C.B.E.,
Adviser to the Bahrain Government.
Mr. Ward P. Anderson,
General Manager and Chief Local Representative
The Bahrain Petroleum Company Limited.
Mr. Russell M. Brown,
Manager Operations,
The Bahrain Petroleum Company Limited.
At four o 1 clock yesterday afternoon when the Refinery
personnel were coming off work certain persons made represent- j;
ations that the men were not receiving an adequate wage.
The ring leader appears to be Abdur Rahman bin Ilohammed.
Mr. Barkhurst who was there asked persons who were in agreement
v/ith Abdur Rahman bin Mohammed to step on one side. Some 36 |
workmen did, and they were told that they would be paid off
and were given paying off slips.
Yesterday evening some 80 men failed to arrive for the
midnight shift and the Company understand that Khamis bin
Abdullah, Mohammed Saleh bin Ebrahim, and Mohammed bin Ali were
endeavouring to prevent Oil Company employees from going out to
work by talking to the men at the bus stands at Maharraq and
Manama. Abdur Rahman bin Moharrmed went out to the Refinery
ates this morning and v/as endeavouring to persuade men not
o go to work.
2. The present position is that roughly a hundred Refinery
employees are absent from work and the Company think it possible
hat more may follow their example. The men affected appear
o be in the higher paid divisions.
Decided:-
(1). To request the Bahrain Government to apprehend the four
persons already named a^ endeavouring to prevent
workers going to the Refinery.
(2) To request the Bahrain Government to have policemen on
duty at the bus stands and in the buses to prevent
workmen being molested on their way to work.
(3) That 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. and the Adviser would go out
to the Fefinery in the afternoon and talk to the
outgoing men.
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23rd December 1943. 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.