Thereafter, an industrial dispute was raised by the workmen which related to the closure of these 8 depots, as well as to a number of other demands, including revision of basic wages and dearness allowance, additional discomfort allowance, etc.
In companynection with this business, the Company, in the year 1962, was maintaining 21 depots where, according to the workmen, the appellants, the Company was carrying on the work of companylecting tobacco, though the Companys case was that the principal work done at these depots was that of handling the tobacco purchased at other places and only included the work of purchasing tobacco on a small scale.
The Company has been carrying on this business for about 40 years and handles almost 35 per cent of the tobacco grown in the State of Andhra Pradesh.
The State Government, by its Order dated 14th November, 1963, referred the dispute for adjudication under s. 10 1 d of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 to the Industrial Tribunal, Hyderabad.
The first issue which was referred for adjudication, was as follows How far the demands of the union, viz.,
Appeal by special leave from the order dated August 13, 1964 of the Industrial Tribunal, Andhra Pradesh in Industrial Dispute No.
For the work of stemming, grading and packing tobacco, the Company has two factories, one at Anaparty in East Godavari District, and the other at Chirala in Guntur District.
On 16th August, 1963, the Company gave a numberice to the Union of the appellant workmen that 8 out of 21 depots mentioned therein would be closed down with effect from 30th September, 1963.
The Tribunal decided this preliminary issue by giving an interim award on the 13th August, 1964.
1 will be decided later after hearing the parties, There,after, the Tribunal proceeded to hear the reference on this question as well as on all other issues referred to it and, ultimately, gave its award on 11th December, 1964.
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41 of 1963.
556 of 1966.
Admittedly, the Company is an associate of the Imperial Tobacco Company Ltd., and the main business carried on by the Company is that of purchasing tobacco of all varieties and qualities, stemming, grading and packing of tobacco and supplying it to the Imperial Tobacco Co., as well as exporting the tobacco to various foreign companyntries in the world.
The Judgment of the Court was delivered by Bhargava, J. This appeal, by special leave, has arisen out of an award made by the Industrial Tribunal, Andhra Pradesh, at Hyderabad in an industrial dispute between the respondent, the Imperial Tobacco Co., as well as exporting the tobacco to various hereinafter referred to as the Company , and its workmen.
Srinivasamurthy and Naunit Lal, for the respondent.
K. Ramamurthi, Shyamala Pappu and Vineet Kumar, for the appellants.
