Judgment

SHELAT, J.: Two workmen, Gulab Singh and Satya Pal, were appointed by the respondent-company in December 1956 and February, 1955 respectively under the designation of copy-holders. It was alleged that they were entrusted with the duties of proof-readers and there fore they claimed that they should be treated as such. In July, 1959, the management issued an order in which the two workmen were described as copy-holders. It was alleged that in spite of this order the management continued to give the workmen the work of proof-readers. A dispute whether the two workmen should be treated as proof-readers having arisen and having been espoused by the Delhi Union of Journalists, the Delhi Administration, by a notification dated August 2, 1961 referred it to the Industrial Tribunal, Delhi.

2. The management contended that the said dispute was an individual dispute and not an Industrial dispute and that being so it was wrongly referred to the Tribunal and the Tribunal had no jurisdiction to adjudicate it. The Tribunal raised the preliminary issue, namely, whether the dispute relating to the said two workmen was an industrial dispute. The Tribunal held that it was not an industrial dis