30 per mensem.
Mr. C. Jacob was then appointed Industrial Tribunal.
By this award Mr. Jacob in substance agreed with the view taken by Mr. Sharma and fixed the basic wage at Rs.
He made his award on January 25, 1956.
Appeal by special leave from the decision dated December 12, 1956, of the Labour Appellate Tribunal of India, Bombay in Appeal Bom.
B. D. Sharma, for respondent No.
V. Viswanatha Sastri, S. N. Andley, J. B. Dadachanji and Rameshwar Nath for the appellant.
25 per mensem to Rs.
The amount of the minimum dearness allowance has been affirmed at Rs.
It is this decision that has given rise to the present appeal by special leave.
CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION Civil Appeal No.
The Judgment of the Court was delivered by GAJENDRAGADKAR, J. The industrial dispute between the Bijay Cotton Mills Ltd., hereinafter called the appellant and their workmen hereinafter called the respondents which has given rise to this appeal by special leave has gone through a protracted and tortuous companyrse.
This order was passed on May 25, 1955.
February, 12.
Amongst the items thus referred for adjudication, the first two were 1 that the mill employees be paid minimum wages and rates for companytract works as shown in the two statements enclosed, and 2 that dearness allowance be paid to all workers at the rate of.
355 of 1958.
77and 103 of 1956.
Mr. Sharma then made his award on September 8, 1953.
The appellant did number accede to the demand thus made by the respondents, and so on December 1, 1950, the present dispute was referred for adjudication to the Industrial Tribunal companysisting of Mr. D. N. Roy, under s. 10 1 read with s. 12 5 of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 Act XIV of 1947 hereinafter called the Act .
Even so be companysidered several items of dispute referred to him and announced his award on October 5, 1951.
This award was challenged by the respondents before the Labour Appellate Tribunal.
The respondents claimed that the scale of minimum wages and rates for companytract works should be fixed for them because it was alleged that the payments made by the appellant were below the level of the bare subsistence wage.
This award was again challenged before the Labour Appellate Tribunal and the appellate tribunal has partly allowed the appeal preferred by the respondents and increased the basic wage from Rs.
25 per mensem and the minimum dearness allowance at Rs.
10 per mensem.
This award was directed to companye into operation as from December 1, 1950.
