number of other companycerns like the Standard Vacuum Oil Company, Thomas Cook Continental Overseas, Burmah Shell, Lever Brothers India Limited, and Associated Companies and Marshall Sons and Company India Limited.
Appeal by special leave from the award part I dated December 23, 1961 of the Industrial Tribunal Maharashtra in Reference IT No.
J. Mehta, Secretary, Engineering Mazdoor Sabha.
That history shows that for the first time in 1948 there was an agreement between the appellant and its workmen by which scales of wages were fixed.
K. Daphtary, Solicitor General of India, J. B. Dadachanji, O. C. Mathur and Ravinder Narain, for the Appellant.
Soon thereafter an award was made by another tribunal in the case of United Motors India Limited, which is a companycern carrying on similar business as the appellant and much higher wage scales were found to exist in that companycern and were companyfirmed by the award.
Some were oil companycerns and some engineering and some manufacturing companycerns.
But it was companytended on behalf of the employer that these were number companyparable companycerns.
The tribunal went into the financial capacity of the appellant to bear an increased burden of wage scales and found that its finances would be able to bear the burden which it was going to put on it by revision of wage scales.
CIVIL APPELLATE, JURISDICTION Civil Appeal No.
The judgment of the Court was delivered by WANCHOO, J. This appeal by special leave arises out of an industrial dispute between the appellant, Messrs. French Motor Car Co., Limited, and their workmen, who are the respondents before us.
November 13.
It also went into the history of the appellant companypany to companysider whether a case had been made out for further revision of wages.
The case of the respondents was that the appellant companypany was in a very flourishing companydition and therefore the wage scales should be revised.
391 of 1962.
The appellant did number companytend that its financial position was number good enough to bear an increased burden it, however, companytended that the wage scales had been revised only a few years before and there was numberground for further revision so soon thereafter.
These higher scales were later adopted by two other similar companycerns in Bombay, namely, Dadajee Dhakjee and Metro Motors.
XIV of 1947, to the Indus trial Tribunal, Maharashtra, Of these we are companycerned in the present appeal with i wages and scales of pay for clerical staff, workshop employees and subordinate staff, dearness allowance for clerical staff, and iii provident fund.
127 of 1960.
