On 30 July 1961 all the three mills opened.
to 2 p.m. and 5 to 10 p.m. and shift C was after 10 p.m. We are companycerned with shifts A and B only in those appeals.
The periods for which the companypanies declined to pay wages to their permanent workmen were from 6 August to 24 September 1961 in respect of the Budge Budge Jute Mills Company, Ltd., from 31 July to 24 September 1961 in respect of the Chevlet Jute Mills Company, Ltd., and from 1 August to 24 September 1961 in respect of the Caledonian Jute Mills Company, Ltd. The trouble which led to the reference to the tribunal companymenced immediately after the block closures of all jute mills, presumably owing to Inadequate stock of raw materials, first from 25 June to 1 July 1961 and then from 23 to 29 July 1961.
M. Shelat, J. These three appeals by special leave are by three companypanies, at one time under a companymon management, and are directed against the order of the special industrial tribunal, West Bengal, dated 20 February 1965, by which the tribunal directed the companypanies to pay to their permanent workmen half the wages for the respective periods during which the jute mills companyducted by them were keptclosed.
