The earlier issue as regards the proposed introduction of the rationalisation scheme was also amended in view of what had happened in the meantime by substituting therefore Have the rationalisation effected in the above two mills since 16th December, 1957, involved any increase in the workload ?
Appeal by special leave from the Award dated July 19, 1958, of the Fourth Industrial Tribunal, West Bengal, in Case No.
But a dispute arose as regards the payment of wages to workmen for their dues during the period when the mills were closed, viz.,
This dispute was also referred to the Tribunal by an order of the Government dated February 1, 1958.
Almost a month before this the proposal of introducing a rationalisation scheme in time mills of these companypanies had been companysidered at an extraordinary meeting of the Works Committee and the Committee had agreed to the proposal.
If so, what relief the workmen are entitled to ?
The fact that the workmens representatives on the Works Committee agreed to the introduction of the 1 1955 1 L.L.J. 48.
K. Sanyal and P. K. Chakravarty for R. C. Datta, for the respondents.
K. Daphtary, Solicitor General of India, Vidya Sagar and B. N. Ghosh, for the appellants.
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The Judgment of the Court was delivered by DAS GUPTA, J. On December 13, 1957, the Government of West Bengal referred under s. 10 of the Industrial Disputes, Act the following dispute between M S. Northbrook Jute Co., Ltd., and Dalhousie Jute Mills Who are appellants before us and their workmen Do the proposals of rationalisation in the above two mills involve any increase in workload ?
On December 16 when the above reference was pending before the Tribunal the management.
141 of 1959.
A numberice tinder s. 9A of the Industrial Disputes Act was then given by the companypanies to the Unions of their workmen and it was because the workmen objected to the introduction of the rationalisation scheme that the dispute arose and was refer red by the Government to the Tribunal.
Work was however resumed again in all departments excepting the weaving and finishing departments on December 20, and in these two departments on December 21, as a result of a settlement arrived at between the workmen represented by their Unions and the Mills as regards the introduction of the rationalisation scheme.
Later the same day the mills declared a lock out.
16th December to 20th December in the weaving and finishing departments and 16th December to 19th December in all other departments.
of these mills put the rationalisation scheme into operation but the workmen refused to do the additional work placed on them by the scheme.
March 23.
To what relief the workers are entitled to ?
