It is this clause on the companystruction of which the decision of the present industrial dispute depends.
19,985 out of this amount the appellant paid Rs.
The respondents case was that under the U. P. Government Order which regulates the payment of bonus the said employees were number entitled to share in the bonus whereas the appellant urged that the said employees were included amongst its employees and payment of bonus to them was fully justified.
1,130 8 9 made by the appellant as bonus to employees engaged at the head office at Calcutta.
During this year the total bonus distributed by the appellant was Rs.
1130 8 9 to the employees at its head office at Calcutta, and it is in regard to this latter payment that the present dispute has arisen.
B. Gajendragadkar, J. This appeal by special leave arises out of an industrial dispute between the Appellant Sri Sitaram Sugar Mills Ltd., and its workmen, the respondents.
The dispute in question was referred for adjudication to the Industrial Tribunal by the U. P. Government and it was in reference to the payment of Rs.
The relevant year is 1953 1954.
A similar dispute had also been referred to the Industrial Tribunal in respect of interim bonus for the year 1954 1955 but the said dispute was amicably settled.
