The Calcutta Weekly Notes May 25 1953

the Municipality on one side and the workmen represented by the Union on the other " The Supreme Court then proceeded to deal with the question whether the dispute was an "industrial dispute" the contention being that the Municipality in discharging its normal duty connected with local self-government was not engaged in any industry as defined in the Act. [...] LV11 civ THE CALCUTTA iehveritei; judgment of the Court rferred to the limited concept of what an industry meant in early times and held There is nothing however to prevent a statute from giving the -vvord 'industry' and „the words 'industrial dispute' a wider and more comprehensive import in order to meet the requirements of rapid industrial progress and to bring about in the interests of in [...] That is however the effect of the judgment and although the correspondent might mourn the result and call us to account for it the law laid down binds him as much as it does the Labour Appellate Tribunal. [...] A. 303 in the case of the dispute between the 'Budge Budge Municipality and their workmen in the issue of your esteemed journal of the :::oth April last you seem to Suggest that the Supreme Court has decided that to be an industrial dispute the dispute must be between a number of workmen and their employer. [...] In the above view of the matter I have no doubt that you will agree that the statement of law on the subject 114s not been made by the Supreme Court but by the Hon'ble Labour Appellate Tribunal.