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5. OAPCO
Skilled and unskilled labourers are paid

at the rate/ of annas 10/- per day when they are
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first engaged* Then the Company raises the pay
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of skilled labourers up to Rs. 3/- per day after
a long service. Whdn they reach this stage, the
Nonsense Company intentionally finds some fault with those
labourers who receive Rs. 3/- per day and dismisses

them from service. As there is no work in Bahrain
the said labourers who have been dismissed are
obliged to go to the Company for employment and
by the Company
if they are given employment/they will have to
start on a pay of annas 10/- a day. If the Com­
pany do not dismiss the skilled labourers they

fine them for a slight fait for at least 5 days i
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wages and sometime3fceat them. The labourers
been
have/warned that their pay will be reduced next
month. The Bahrain Government do not listen to
the complaints of the labourers when they approach
them and tell them to go and settle with the
Company. The Company are accustomed to bring in­

efficient Indian labourers who reedive Rs. 5/-
or more a day and order other local labourers who
receive nib more than Re. 1/- and Rs. 1/8 a rity day
Absurd
to teach such Indian labourers their work which

they have to do.
6. MUNICIPALITY
The present Secretary of the Municipality
is absolutely a usele33 and inefficient man. The
clerks who have been engaged by him in the Muni­
cipality office are all bad character boys and

the tax collectors are pimps. It is said that
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