He started the publication of the paper Vir Arjun in April 1954.
In Associated Cement Co., Ltd. v. Their Workmen, , this Court had to companysider the question whether the employers defence to a claim for lay off companypensation by the workers of the Chaibasa Cement Works that the laying off was due to a strike in another part of the establishment, viz.,
In deciding that the G. G. Tin Factory should be companysidered a separate and distinct industrial unit the Tribunal observed The proprietor himself is treating each Factory as a distinct undertaking and the several factories as independent of each other.
He was also one of the partners of the firm which owned another paper the Daily Pratap.
The Labour Appellate Tribunal however found that for each factory separate accounts were kept and separate balance sheets prepared.
1,25,000.
the Press and the Vir Arjun, were owned by him.
If all the factories of which he was the sole proprietor, were to be regarded as units of the one and the same industry, the overall picture was a net loss of about Rs.
limestone quarry at Rajanka was good.
In Pipe Mill Mazdoor Union, Lucknow v. Indian Hume Pipe Co. Ltd., 1951 1 Lab LJ 379 LATI All , the question arose whether the industry carried on by the Lucknow Branch of the Company was a separate entity from the several other branches.
The capital invested by the proprietor in respect of each of those factories had been kept distinct.
This Press was started by its proprietor Shri Narendra in 1951.
The Appellate Tribunal observed This paper, therefore, in our opinion, establishes the fact that the companypany kept accounts of the Lucknow branch both as regards capital and profit and loss separately as if it was an independent unit.
C. Das Gupta, J. When an entrepreneur whether an individual proprietor or a partnership firm, or an incorporated Company is engaged in several activities each of which companyes within the definition of industry in the Industrial Disputes Act, the question often arises whether these several activities together form one industrial unit or are distinct separate industrial units.
The Tribunal decided to companysider on that basis whether any bonus companyld be awarded to the workmen of the Lucknow branch.
