May 12.
The Chairman of this Tribunal was Shri Panchapagesa Sastry, another retired Judge.
On January 5, 1952, two numberifications were made.
In some cases numberices of threatened strike were also served on the employers.
The companysequence of this decision was that the dispute in the banking industry remained unresolved.
122, 129, 130, 142, 144, 145, 152, 153, 154, 155, 162, 169, 217 218 of 1953.
In or about the year 1946 trade unions of bank em ployees presented demands for higher salaries and allowances and better companyditions of service.
57 to 61 of 1957 Represented by All India Bank Employees Association P. Maheshwari, for respondent No.
56 60 of 1957.
A. Palkhiwala, J. B. Dadachanji and S. N. Andley, for the appellants in C. As, Nos.
This Court ultimately held that the award of the Sen Tribunal was void in to for want of jurisdiction, but did number go into the merits of the award With regard to any of the matters dealt with therein.
The dispute companyered several items, and some more were added from time to time.
C. Chatterjee, Sadhan Chandra Gupta, Janardan Sharma, K. Ramamurthi and M. R. K. Pillai, for respondents in C. As.
The unrest became particularly acute in the provinces of Bombay, the United Provinces, and Bengal as they were then known.
57, 58, 59 61 of 1957, C. Setalvad Attorney General for India and Naunit Lal, for the appellant Punjab National Bank in C. A. No.
1 in C. A. No.
The result was that the Central Government had to take steps afresh to settle this long standing dispute.
56 of 1957.
The local Governments of those provinces referred these industrial disputes for adjudication this resulted in some regional awards which came to be known in Bombay as the Divatia Award, in the United I Provinces as the B B. Singh Award and in Bengal as the Gupta, Chakravarty and Sen Awards.
These seven appeals on behalf of different Banks against their workmen have been filed in pursuance of the aforesaid leave granted by this Court.
The Judgment of the Court was delivered by K. DAS J. These are seven appeals on behalf of different Banks working in this companyntry, some incorporated in India and some outside India.
Chairman and two other members, but the Chairman and the members resigned within a short time.
Appeals by special leave from the judgment and order dated April 28.
C. Setalvad, Attorney General for India, J. B. Dadachanji and S. N. Andley, for the appellants in As.
In July 1951 the Central Government made a fresh reference to an Industrial Tribunal companysisting of Shri H. V. Divatia, a retired Judge as.
Attempts were at first made through the machinery of companyciliation to settle the dispute, but these attempts failed.
56 to 62 of 1957.
CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION Civil Appeals Nos.
62 of 1957.
C. Ghose, and I. S. Sawhney, for All India Central Bank Employees Association.
Some of the leading Banks being dissatisfied with the award applied to Supreme Court and obtained special leave to appeal against the said award, as it had been specially exempted from the jurisdiction of the Labour Appellate Tribunal companystituted under the Industrial Disputes Appellate Tribunal Act, 1950 XLVIII of 1950 .
On June 26, 1951, was enacted the Industrial Disputes Amendment and Temporary Provisions Act, 1951 XL of 1951 which had the effect of temporarily freezing some of the gains of labour under the Sen Award.
V. Phadke, T. S. Venkataraman, K. R. Sharma and K. R. Choudhury, for respondent No.
This award came up for companysideration of a Special Bench of the Labour Appellate Tribunal on appeals preferred by the employees of banks all over India and of the Banks themselves.
62 of 1957.
On April 30, 1949, was passed the Industrial Disputes Banking and Insurance Companies Ordinance Ordinance VI of 1949 under the provisions of which all banking companypanies having branches or other establishments in more than one province came under the jurisdiction of the Central Government for the purposes of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 XIV of 1947 .
1954 of the Labour Appellate Tribunal of India Special Bench Banks , Bombay,in Appeals Nos.
Notwithstanding these awards, the general unrest amongst Bank employees companytinued and there was a clamor for companytrol of the banking industry by the Central Government.
Therefore, the Reserve Bank of India, under directions of the Central Government carried out a rapid survey of the possible effect of the decision of the Labour Appellate Tribunal on the working of a few typical banks which were parties to the dispute.
Some of the Banks moved this Court for special leave to appeal from the decision dated April 28, 1954, of the Labour Appellate Tribunal and such leave was granted on October 4,1954.
The decision of the Labour Appellate Tribunal was given on April 28, 1954.
3 Association of the Punjab National Bank Employees in C. A. No.
By a numberification dated June 13, 1949, the Central Government companystituted an ad hoc Tribunal companysisting of Shri K. C. Sen, a retired Judge of the Bombay High Court, as Chairman, with two other persons as members to adjudicate upon an industrial dispute between several banking companypanies and their workmen.
P. Maheshwari, for Surat Bank Employees Union.
On the same day, the industrial dispute was referred to the Tribunal by a separate order.
This rise in prices very seriously affected salaried employees belonging to the middle class including such employees in the banking industry.
By another numberification of the same date the Central Government referred the matters specified in such.
The same order which granted special leave also directed that the appeals be companysolidated.
The Sastry Tribunal made its award which was published on April 20, 1953.
After a very exhaustive enquiry, the Sen Tribunal made its award which was published on August 12, 1950.
It is number well known that there was a sharp rise in the prices of companymodities during and after World War No.
For the sake of companyvenience, we shall hereafter refer to this Tribunal as the Sen Tribunal and its award as the Sen Award.
Hereafter we shall refer to this Tribunal as the Sastry Tribunal.
It is necessary that we should very briefly state the background of the industrial dispute which has given rise to these appeals.
The other two members were Shri M. L. Tannan and Shri V. L. DSouza.
By one numberification a new Tribunal was companystituted to be called the All India Industrial Tribunal Bank Disputes .
