'File 10/1 G BAPCO labour' [‎237v] (478/586)

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that if they ui.d inrif^
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l -1 -m - r-' 1 v/oiild not come and
theru-Uoey could scarcely
expect us to help then, brrt- as I had said before we would
exaalne thelii grievances mmb nr hriT»e ^been given ^o v >
writing but -tiaetet they must return to their wor .
ately ranr up the Adviser who came over -md v;e •iC'i- ri dis»
cussed the situationf^ I asked f .'r, Anderson on the telephorjo
to-coin us in our deliberations and as soon as he arrived wd
£ot him to state the position as far as his work was con-.,
cerned. He said that he would be able to carry on for 4
or 5 days without the men who were at present on strike
provided n6 more went out; but it might mean snntt n C ^
qome of the subsidiary machinery at the Refinery He
that he~ would like to make ^ known to the me: ^ ^
f^lar^f^r which he had today received, and said that pro ,r i -
^ returned to their work their services would not b^
^wS^'as broken by their present action. the
Adviser and I myself were opposed to this line of actionem
as we felt that it be playing into the hands, of the
strike leader s^hey would undoubtedly make capital out of ii
and T* felt that We -"ere onlj^ storing up struggle 3 v - e
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future^ It was decided that His Highness should be as.ced
to issue an 'Alan informing the people concerned that repre
sentations had been made to him, to 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
to the Company by certain of the Company employees who had
left their work and that those grievances would be fairly
a nd immediately investigated^that the men should return
to their work at once. It was further decided that Shaikh
Ali should collect the people at Raa'ia who had lei t their
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work and endeavour to discover wha■ the]r^ di u ties
and nersuade them to return but that he should not promise
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them an inc -ease in wages. ^ It was Shaikh ali's opinion,
and I understand that of the Adviser, .tk^JT'a certairf^'ttmb^r |
of the men .would probably return within the next three or
four days on their own, owing to shortness of funds to enabl«£
them to remain away from their work. It was also Shaikh
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All's opinion that the •Alan^by His Highness would ^ave.
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