Feroz Din and Others The circumstances which led to the issuing of the v. notice of April 25 also show that the workers had The State of actually· been dischat·ged on April 10. What had West Bengal happened was that the Labour Minister of the Govern- Sarkar J. ment of West Bengal ha.d intervened in the dispute between the Company and its workers. He met the workers and on April 21, 1953, that is, after the termination of the first of the two strikes, suggested certain terms for the settlement of the dispute. His suggestion was that " if the workers of the Hot Mills, who stand discharged from 2 p.rn. of April 10, 1953, as a consequence of their disregarding the notice issued on 8th April, 1953, report themselves for duty immediately and record their willingness to operate the plant to its normal .capacity, the Government would recommend their reinstatement to the Management." A copy of this suggestion was forwarded to the Company by the Government· with a request to implement the recommendations contained in it with a further request to give the suggestion a wide publicity. The company circnlated the Labour Minister's suggestion among the workers and to comply with his request to implement it, it issued the notice of April 25, to which a copy of the suggestion was attached. It is, therefore, clear that all that the Company intended to do by the notice of April 25, was to comply with the Government's ·suggestion and so to cancel the discharge of the workers of the Hot Mill which had already taken effect and reinstate them in their former employments if t.he workers carried out their part. of the suggestion. This notice, therefore, does not support the contention that the workers had not been discharged till April 28, 1953.
