B. N. BANERJEE, J.

( 1 ) AN objection to the maintainability of the present application has been raised as a preliminary objection.

( 2 ) THE petitioner, tile West Bengal Press Workers and Employees' Union, claims to be a trade union of workmen employed in different printing presses in West Bengal, including a press known as the Art Union Printing Works Private Ltd. , (respondent No. 1 ).

( 3 ) THE working conditions, scales of pay and dearness allowance of workmen in printing presses became the subject-matter of certain awards, more or less on industrywise basis, during the last several years. One such award between 169 printing presses in Calcutta and Howrah (including the respondent No. 1 press) and their workmen was published in the Calcutta Gazette, dated May 11, 1948. The other such award between 90 printing presses (including the respondent No. 1 press) and their workmen was published in the Calcutta Gazette, dated March 1, 1951.

( 4 ) THE dispute, out of which this Rule arises, is the third of the series of industrial disputes between the respondent No. 1 press and its workmen. The State Government referred the dispute limited to the following issues, to the Fourth Indu

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