Industrial Tribunal. The Standing Orders Act which, has for its object, the defining, with sufficient precision, the conditions of employment, under the industrial establishments and to make the said conditions known to the workmen employed by them, has provided more or less a speedy remedy to the workman, for the purpose of having a standing order modified, or for having any question relating to the application, or interpretation of a standing order, referred to a Labour Court. But there is no warrant, in our opinion, for holding that merely because the Standing Orders Act is a self-contained statute, with regarded to the matters mentioned therein, the jurisdiction of the Industrial Tribunal, under the Act, to adjudicate upon the matters, covered by the standing orders, has been, in any manner abridged or taken away. It will always be open, in a proper case, for the Union or workmen to raise an “industrial dispute”, as that expression is defined in Section 2(k) of the Act, and, if such a dispute is referred by the Government, concerned, for adjudication, the Industrial Tribunal or Labour Court, as the case may be, will have jurisdiction to adjudicate, upon the same. But, it must also be borne in mind that an “industrial dispute” has to be raised by the Union, before it can be referred and, it is not unlikely that a Union must be persuaded to raise the dispute, though the grievance of a particular workman, or a member of the Union, be otherwise well-founded. Even if the Union takes up the dispute, the State Government may, or may not, refer it to the Industrial Tribunal. The discretion of the State Government, under Section 10 of the Act, is very wide. It may be that the workmen, affected by the standing orders, may not always, and in every case, succeed in obtaining a reference to the Industrial Tribunal, on a relevant point. These are some of the circumstances for giving a right and a remedy, to the workman, under the Standing Orders Act itself, but there is no indication, in the scheme of the Standing Orders Act, that the jurisdiction of the Industrial Tribunal, to entertain an “Industrial dispute”, bearing upon the standing orders of an industrial establishment, and to adjudicate upon the same, has in any manner been
