Mumbai Court January 1953 Judgments

Shaik Kasamali and anr. Vs. Labour Appellate Tribunal of India and ors ...

Court: Mumbai

Reported in: (1953)IILLJ332Bom

Coyajee, J.1. This is a petition asking for interference with the decision of the Labour Appellate Tribunal, being Appeal No. 317 of 1951 from the decision of the industrial tribunal. The matter has been argued at considerable length, but the position can be set out very shortly. The petitioners who are employees of the Western India Match Company, Ltd., by their letter of 12 April 1950 through their union made certain demands on the second respondent company. Those demands are set out in paragraph 6 of the petition. It must be remembered that prior to this there was a decision of the industrial tribunal being award No. AJ. IT. 4 of 1949 and the demand made on this application to the tribunal was that all piece-rated and daily rated employees be given 25 per cent increase in their existing wages subject to a minimum wage of Rs. 35 per month of 26 days with effect from 1 January 1950 and secondly the workers as are daily-rated employees may be fixed on monthly-rate scales as are in forc...