( 1 ) WHO deserves greater sympathy the lowly paid workman of the Oil and Natural Gas Commission (O. N. G. C.) who became blind in one eye whilst sweating for it or the O. N. G. C. itself who has become blind in both the eyes and is fighting tooth and nail with all the technical arguments at its disposal and legal talents at its command with the limitless public funds at its disposal ? Let alone being an ideal employer can one not expect the O. N. G. C. to be a fair and humane employer ? Should it prefer to spend thousands to pay to lawyers rather than to compensate its own employee who has sustained permanent loss of an eye in the course of winning oil and profits for the O. N. G. C. and for the Nation ? These questions come to the fore since a 30 year old Welder employed by the O. N. G. C. lost his right eye by reason of the fact that a piece of metal caused injury to his eye in the course of an operation undertaken by the patty of Drillers of which he was a member for retrieving a precious instrument known as well-head. It appears that when the pipe was being pulled by recourse to the tackle system by a tractor the holes in the pipe snapped and a piece of metal