Judgement

VENKATARAMA AYYAR J. - Disputes having arisen between Messrs. Burn and Company, Calcutta, hereinafter called the Company, and a section of their employees in Howrah Iron Works, hereinafter referred to as the Union, the Govt. of West Bengal issued a notification on 16-12-1952 referring the same to the First Industrial Tribunal for adjudication. Though there were as many as 13 items comprised in the reference, we are concerned in these appeals only with four of them, viz., (1) revision of pay of clerical and sub-staff, (2) grades of sarkars and checkers, (3) bonus and (4) reinstatement of four employees, S. N. Chatterjee, Ashimanada Banerjee, Panchanan Rana and Joydeb Banerjee and/ or payment of compensation to them.

By his award dated 24-6-1953, Shri Banerji, the Industrial Tribunal, held (1) that there were no grounds for revising the scale of pay of the clerical and sub-staff, (2) that the pay of checkers should be increased and that they should be paid according to the scale as set out in his award; (3) that the profits of the Company did not warrant the grant of any bonus in addition to what had been paid by the Company; and (4) that of the four employees, Shambunath Cha