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Citation: 1970 PLC 423
Court: Industrial Appellate Tribunal
Year: 1970
Decision Date: 1970-04-17
Parties: MESSRS STAR TEXTILE MILLS LTD. vs THE STAR TEXTILE MILLS WORKERS' UNION,
Case cited as 1970 PLC 423
Court Name: Industrial Appellate Tribunal Judge(s): Inamullah Khan Title: MESSRS STAR TEXTILE MILLS LTD. vs THE STAR TEXTILE MILLS WORKERS' UNION, Case No.: Date of Judgment:1970-04-17 Reported As: 1970 PLC 423 Result: application made Judgment ORDER This is an application under section 38(5) of the Industrial Relations Ordinance, 1969 (hereinafter called the Ordinance), for initiating contempt of Court proceedings against the respondents and to punish them for contempt of the authority of the Labour Court, which ordered the respondents to call off the strike. The facts, giving rise to the present application, briefly put are these. 2. The applicants are Private Limited Company carrying on the business of manufacture of Cotton Textile. The respondent No. 1, is a Workers' Union of the Mill, while respondents No's. 2 to 11, are workmen and the Members of the Managing Committee of respondent No. 1 (Union). The workmen of the applicant-Company, including respon--dents Nos. 2 to 11, had gone on strike from 18th February 1970. On 16th March 1930, the Company made an application before the Second West Pakistan Labour Court, Karachi, under section 34 of the Ordinance, for a declaration that the strike was in contravention of the rights guaranteed to the Company under two settlements in operation. Along with the application under section 34 of the Ordinance, the applicants also made an application under section 45 of the Ordinance for prohibiting the continuance of the strike. The…
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