ORDER :- The petitioner - The Cochin Commercial Employees Association is a trade union registered under the Indian Trade Onions Act. The petitioner claims that an overwhelming majority of the monthly paid workmen employed at the Cochin Office of the Fourth respondent, Messrs Pierce Leslie and Co. Limited, are members of the Association, and that for a long time the petitioner was representing the monthly paid employees of the Company at their Cochin Office including Willingdon Island, for the purpose of collective bargaining. The petitioner states that there was a settlement, between the fourth respondent and the monthly paid workmen of the Cochin office represented by the petitioner, of certain disputes in the year 1961 and that as soon as the period of the settlement was over, a notice was served upon the fourth respondent by the petitioner intimating the intention to terminate the settlement, and that thereafter the petitioner had served a charter of demands upon the

fourth respondent Company demanding better terms and conditions of service including the revision of existing salary scales and the rate of clearness allowance. As the fourth respondent was not prepared to consider

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