Judgment

DAS GUPTA, J. : This appeal by special leave arises out of an industrial dispute between the appellant company, the Airlines Hotel Private Limited, Bombay, which runs hotel business in the city of Bombay and its workmen. The workmen had raised demands in regard to a number of matters including, wages, service charges and provident fund. The demand in the matter of service charges was divided into five heads, one of which was inspection of the company s accounts books, bills and receipt books etc.,"to ascertain the correct amount collected by the management and due to the workers." The Government made a reference for adjudication by an industrial Tribunal under Section 10 of the Act as regards all the demands, excepting one, viz., the demand for inspection of accounts in connection with the amount of service charges. The Tribunal made an award in favour of the workers as regards the demand on the question of wages and the demand for provident fund. The demand as regards service charges was rejected except that the Tribunal directed all outstanding arrears in respect of what the company admitted to be payable to workers to be paid within one month and that a direction was giv