Oral Answers to Questions — India. – in the House of Commons at on 4 March 1929.
Mr William Kelly
, Rochdale
asked the Under-Secretary of State for India if he has received a Report from India as to the present situation in the strike at the Sewree depot of the Burma Standard Oil Companies?
Viscount Turnour
, Horsham and Worthing
Normal working has been resumed from 19th February in the case of the Standard Oil Company and from 23rd February in the case of the Burma Shell Company.
Mr William Kelly
, Rochdale
Can the Noble Lord give us an assurance that the strikers will not be held blameable for the present rise in the price of petrol?
Mr Wilfred Wellock
, Stourbridge
asked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether the Pathans who were employed in the place of strikers at the oil works concerned in the recent troubles are still in employment at these works?
Viscount Turnour
, Horsham and Worthing
I have not this information.
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