the committee managing the affairs of the youth hostel and therefore without the District Collector as a party to the industrial dispute, the industrial dispute cannot be proceeded with. The union filed an application for impleading the Chairman of the statutory committee as an additional management, which was allowed. But the union did not take steps to take out notice to the chairman and on that ground the Labour Court held that the reference itself is bad for non-joinder of necessary parties. According to the petitioners, the view taken by the Labour Court is perverse. It is submitted that when an industrial dispute was raised before the concerned conciliation officer, the warden represented the management, in the conciliation proceedings. No contention was raised before the conciliation officer that anybody other than the warden is the management. Therefore, it must be presumed that the warden represented the management with authorisation and therefore there was not at all any necessity to implead anybody else as management in the industrial dispute, is the contention raised. The second contention is that in industrial disputes, there is no procedure of paying process fee for sending notice to the management and, in fact, it is the duty of the Labour Court to issue notice to additional parties, when parties are impleaded.
