ANDHRA PRADESH HIGH COURT
Basi Reddy, J
Messrs. Express Newspapers (Private) Limited – Appellant
Versus
Andhra Pradesh Union of Working Journalists – Respondent
1. This is an appeal against the judgment of our learned brother Basi Reddy, J. refusing to remove an order of the Labour Court, Andhra Pradesh at Hyderabad on certiorari.
2. The facts material for the purpose of this enquiry are shortly these. The appellant i.e., Messrs. Express Newspapers (Private) Limited is a company incorporated under Indian Companies Act and has its head office at Madras. At the material time, it had a branch at Hyderabad with five employees, a branch manager, two working journalists, a staff reporter and a correspondent, who are respondents 2 and 3 in this appeal, a teleprinter operator and an attender. The appellant dismissed the two respondents from service on 28-6-1959 for misconduct and gross negligence of duties. While there was a Union of the appellant's workmen in Madras known as the Express Newspapers Employees' Union, there was no such union of the workmen of the appellant's establishment at Hyderabad. Respondents 2 and 3 were not members of the Madras Union but were members of the Andhra Pradesh Union of Working Journalists which had its registered office at Hyderabad.
Respondents 2 and 3 wrote to the General Secretary of the Andhra Pradesh Union of
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