J. N. Kaushal, J.

1. In the year 1957, an industrial dispute between the workmen and the management of the Amritsar Reyon and Silk Mills (Private), Ltd. , Amritsar, was referred to the industrial tribunal, Punjab, Jullundar. The matters in dispute, which were referred, were eight in number and one of them related to the clerks of the mills along with the workmen. The dispute was in these terms:

Whether the scales end grades of pay should be fixed for the salaried workmen If so, what should be the grades of each category of workmen. ?

When the matter was pending before the industrial tribunal, all the clerks and the management entered into an arbitration agreement for the decision of the fixation of scales and grades of pay, etc. , of the clerical staff. Sri Panna Lal was appointed the sole arbitrator on 28 October 1958. The said arbitrator filed his award on 8 November 1958 before the industrial Walle giving award, the industrial tribunal observed on 10 March 1959, as under:

In the case of clerical staff one arbitration award has been filed which has been accepted by both the parties where grades and (sic) for the clerical staff have been fixed. This is an additional reason