Qatar Petroleum Company Ltd

This file relates to strikes and labour relations in the Qatar Petroleum Company Limited (QPC). It contains correspondence on:

• Disputes in Dukhan and Umm Said [Mesaieed], Qatar, on 3 August 1955, and on 7 and 16 August 1956 involving rigmen, and encloses documents relating to an earlier strike in late 1954
• Advice of the Ruler Sheikh Ali Bin Abdulla Al Thani on paying workers for strike days
• The comparison of pay scales and practices concerning the payment of wages on strike days, and Fridays following, with Bahrain Petroleum Company Limited (Bapco), the Arabia American Oil Company (ARAMCO) and Kuwait Oil Company Limited
• The role of Sheikh Ahmad Bin Ali Al Thani as mediator
• A record of conversation between Abdulla Darwish Fakhroo and the Ruler’s Representative to the workers in QPC Abdulla Attiyah
• A letter from the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf B A B Burrows to Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd reporting on the outcome of negotiations about the payment of strike pay to employees of Petroleum Development (Qatar) Limited
• Reports on labour relations in the QPC from C Marshall.