The Calcutta Weekly Notes April 20 1953

At the instance of the Municipal Workers' Union who questioned the propriety of the dismisal the matter was referred by the State of West Bengal to the Industrial Tribunal for adjudication under the Industrial Dis putes Act 1947. [...] The main contention on behalf of the Municipality was that the dispute between the Municipalities and their employees was not “Industrial dispute” within the meaning of the Industrial Disputes Act and hence there was no jurisdiction in the Government to refer the dispute to a Trbunal. [...] The Supreme Court dea It with the single employee's case in the following words:— having regard to the modern coditions of society where capital and labour have organised themselves into groups for the purpose of fighting their disputes and settling them on the basis of the theory that in union is strength and collective bargain. [...] It may well arise also.n such a manner as to cover the industry as a whole in a case where the grievance if any passes from the region of individual coplaint into a general complaint on behalf of all the workers in the industry." The statement of law by the Supreme Court must now guide the deliberations of the Labour Appellate Tribunal and of others. [...] - The object of the present publication is as the authors point out in the Prefac: to the First Volume is to make available to the Bench and the Bar to Labour Oganizations and Industrialists practically the entire statute law with exhaustive caslaw Rules etc.