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PETITIONER: THE NEWSPAPERS LTD.
Vs.
RESPONDENT: THE STATE INDUSTRIAL TRIBUNAL, U.P.
DATE OF JUDGMENT: 20/03/1957
BENCH: KAPUR, J.L. BENCH: KAPUR, J.L. BHAGWATI, NATWARLAL H. SINHA, BHUVNESHWAR P.
CITATION: 1957 AIR 532 1957 SCR 754
ACT: Industrial Dispute, Meaning of-Dispute between employer and a single workman - Whether industrial dipute-Government making reference on the assumption that a dispute exists between the, employer and his workmen-Whether validity of the reference can be questioned -U . P. Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 (U.P. XXVIII of 1947), SS. 2, 3-Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 (XIV Of 1947), S. 2 (k).
HEADNOTE: A dispute between an employer and a single workman does not fall within the definition of " industrial dispute " under the U.P. industrial Disputes Act, 1947. But though the applicability of the Act to an individual dispute as opposed to a dispute involving a group of workmen is excluded, if the workmen as a body or a consicrerable section of them make common cause with the individual workman then such a dispute would be an industrial dispute. 755 Central Provinces Transport Service Ltd. v Raghunath Gopal Patwardhan, (1956) S. C. R. 956 and D. N. Banerji v. P. R. Mukherjee, (1953) S.C.R. 302, referred to. Swadeshi Cotton Mills Co. Ltd. v. Their Workmen, (1953) I L.L.J. 757, in so far as it decided that a dispute raised b...