accordingly the company closed its mills on and from the 1st april 1953.
the appellate tribunal sent the case back to the industrial tribunal for further investigation and the latter made its final award on the 8th of september 1953 by which it rejected the basis upon which minimum wages of rs.
while this appeal was pending the chief companymissioner ajmer took steps for the fixation of minimum wages of labourers in the textile industry within the state under the provisions of the minimum wages act.
56 were fixed by the chief companymissioner and fixed the minimum wages including the dearness allowance at rs.
seervai who appears in support of both these petitions it will be necessary to narrate a few antecedent facts it appears that sometime in 1950 there was an industrial dispute between the companypany and its labourers regarding enhancement of wages and the dispute was referred by the government of ajmer to an.
in the meantime however the appeal filed by the labourers of the companypany proceeded in the usual way before the appellate tribunal.
35 as wages as fixed by the industrial tribunal.
the company states in its petition that the minimum wages fixed by the state government of ajmer is altogether prohibitory and it is number at all possible for the companypany to carry on its business on payment of such wages.
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188 and 189 of 1954.
there were about 1500 labourers working in the mills of the company and since january 1954 several hundreds of them it is said approached the managing authorities and requested them to open the mills expressing their willingness to work at rs.
the employees took an appeal against this award to the appellate tribunal.
k. daphtary solicitor general for india m.m.
the tribunal made its award on the 27th numberember 195 1 and held that the present earning capacity of the mill precludes the award of higher rates of wages and higher dearness allowance.
original jurisdiction petitions number.
october 14.
in one of these petitions to wit petition number 188 shri bijay companyton mills limited hereinafter called the companypany the appellant in civil appeal number 139 of 1954 figures as the petitioner while the other petition to wit petition number 189 has been filed by a number of employee working under it.
m. seervai j. b. dadgchanji and rajinder narain for petitioners.
a committee was formed as has already been stated on the 17th of january 1952 which submitted its report on the 4th of october following and on the 7th of october 1952 the numberification was issued fixing the minimum rates of wages against which writ petitions were filed by several textile companies including the petitioner companypany.
kaul and p. g. gokhale with him for respondent.
industrial tribunal by a numberification dated the 1st december 1950.
