Coll 28/112A ‘Persia. Tabriz – Monthly despatches of internal situation in Azerbaijan & misc. reports.’ [‎281r] (564/1237)

ooeupaticnh^ve d«et> ed to stay th«r« pomuatmtiy^nd are buwy liquid
ating th«ir reiH iinlag business inter® ?ta here. ’here is a general
feeling rifei*©ad th t H i» better to (?o vhile the goini^ le rood for
few think th?t their worldly possessions will remain undisturbed If
the Rust>iaa» choose to stay. Meanwhile the capital of the* is rcbants
who atill rsmain # honin/r for the beat but fenring the worst, flow©
ily outh*
The 3uiai*n:i have received a oo mil foment of loud-spenkers wt^ich
t v beginning to instal In prominent public ol ces.
Sll* Rezsai-h. iooa after his &T iv&JL at liesuieh the new Governor-General,
Tarhsac li kbar Durakhshanl, addressed the mullahs, merchants an3
other loadlsuc residents, t«illin^ them that the recent disturbances
had boen cuuned by the wsaknsas of the author!titss and asmirlng thorn
that his previous five year® ez^ftrienee of Rssaish would guaai ntoe the
aaintanano© of order in the future. They ne a htve no anxiety, he
continued, end ah old leave everytumy in his hands 1th confidence.
The freedom of political parties was limited by law and if they cioeed-
ed these 11 its they ould be oroscouted end puniehed. Finally he
said that merabera of the racial minorities arc Iranian subjects and s
equal before the law. Thin Meant that their rights would be protected
but also th t they mist themselves recognise their oblige Hour as such
cad be ill in-’ to oo-oaer-te for the general good of their country,
f, number of leading people in Renal eh subsequently sent a telegram
to the Prime Minister thanking him for appointing Garbsng Durakhshsiti.
The latter bus been able to n&ko b good start in that the trot bias
hnd been quelled before bia urriv 1.
The HussIhus have incraciaed the ai.mber of their patrol© in the
town.
81£. Kurdish fslrs* More gendsrsierle poet© • ■<- been esti ’-llshe4
in the TaTanduz are.', 'here Taro Beg ex^rciccs his rloturbinr influence.
ocording to an informant from Mabr.bnd t«o thousand arsned men
of the ushtari tribe under Babaklr Oalla />yhe are at present grazing
their flocks on the Iranian side of the frontier in the region of the
W Mela and Bnjir Mountains. Thirty to forty of the ••..ame tribe are also
s?jld to hwt? visited Sardnsht to assert a claim to 10$ of the loo-al
crocs, se hes b one in nasi yeere when the Iranian. GovenaKnt **as
weak. They )o not however eopear to h ve nut their Intention into
effect and have again l^ft. Rabakir SalI t igha ia said to hxve been
oposed to the enterprise, to far the Push tsar i tribe do not to
have enus^d my trouble.
I Hear klanduab geademes have intercepted a party of urd© under
a local chief named Abdallah Targhaulu who wore engnvoa in ©mugf'ling
tobacco, in the ensuing melee Abdullah end to camel b iere rtiled
a no the gendnmee '- ere able to seize thirty «i>. bales of tobacco.
&13. Closing-down of British Military and U.fC.C.O. atablishMcnts.
Major Shneoraon bn© returned to Tabriz to close military hiringa. This
ie- now pmotioally complete. The departure of the IT.K.C.C. rngnagar l&
still delayed by questions ©rising out o: the disposal of the lease of
their property.
ilG, Labour Situation in Tabriz. After the expulsion of .Khalil
Inq.ilt b from Tabriz a coisparutively Innocuous person Homed Filnl flasir
v*as appointed head of the local workers Union. A f» w days later, cn
August 2nd., notices v t^re posted in Tabriz that the Workers Union ns
such had baen abolished *nd that a new organization the ’Bhursi
Whittehldehi lyalati Xttlhediyehhel Karg&rani wa Zahmat Keabanl
Aserbaijen* had been formed by the fusion of the Tudeh Union and the
^orv.ers Union, a committee had bean formed, the notice continued, of
£7 members, the b ad being the pro-Soviet oglt^tor, Birya, end the
ylc©-presidents Hussein Akdund Zedeh Ganjayi, a refugee from bthe
oviet Union, and Uc hsd Muttalib, « loo--l f ctory worker. Hilal
vatlr protested age in at this usurpation of powers, saying: that the
Workers Union had not connented to any such arrange ent and that it
w?uld c rry on. But the forces behind Birya seem likely to prevail
and, if 30 , the whole labour organisation in Tabriz will come under
more direct Russian control than heretofore.
V There ia still considerable labour unrest in Tabriz factories.