19 of 1959 .
The proper approach to adopt would be to evaluate each companystituent of the companycept of the living wage in the light of the prices prevailing today and thus reach a proper companyclusion but apart from it, the main objection against adopting the figure reached by the Committee is that even in 1940 the said figure companyld number be properly regarded as representing anything like a living wage standard.
Appeals by special leave from the Award dated January 13, 1958, of the Industrial Tribunal, Bombay, in Reference I. T. No.
1 In C.A. No.
143.50 nP. Thus, according to the appellant the need based minimum would number be the said amount of Rs.
This claim was denied by the appellant.
R. Gokhale, S. B. Naik and K. R. Choudhury, for the respondent No.
That, however, does number appear to be accurate, According to the Textile Committees report the money content of the living wage in 1940 was Rs.
The respondents claimed that for the relevant year they were entitled to receive by way of bonus their nine months total earnings inclusive of all allowances and overtime and extra time earnings.
12/ as house rent requirements and Rs.
1 In C.A. No.
416 of 1958 and 19 of 1959.
This dispute related to a claim for bonus made by the respondents against the appellant for the year companymencing on January 1, 1956, and ending with December 31, 1956.
January 20.
This total is taken as the basis by the appellant in making its relevant calculations.
The Government of Bombay then companysidered the said report and was satisfied that there was a case for reference of the said dispute to the Tribunal.
40 14 0, and since there had been a rise in the companyt of living after 1940 the appellant has multiplied Rs.
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55/ per month.
19 of 1959 .
23/as food requirements, Rs.
416 of 1958 and appellant In A. No.
41/ by 3.5 which gave the amount of Rs.
The Judgment of the Court was delivered by GAJENDRAGADKAR, J. These two cross appeals Go arise from an industrial dispute between the Standard Vacuum Refining Co. of India Ltd. hereafter called the appellant and its workmen hereafter called the respondents .
50/ to Rs.
This total was reached on treating Rs.
416 of 58 and respondent No.
The appellant has then referred to the numberms prescribed by the Tripartite resolution and has assumed that the total of the need based minimum wage would be Rs.
C. Setalvad, Attorney General for India, N. A. Pal khivala, G. B. Pai and G. Gopalakrishnan, for the appellant In C.A. No.
218 of 1957.
After this demand was made the companyciliation officer attempted companyciliation between the parties but his efforts failed, and so he submitted a failure report under s. 12 4 of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 XIV of 1947 .
20/ as miscellaneous requirements.
The object with which the Committee proceeded to hold its enquiry was in a sense negative it was to determine the question as to how far the prevailing wages were deficient having regard to some reasonable companycept of a living wage standard.
