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48. It is not for this Court to undertake an evaluation of a situation which prevailed in the Estate of the petitioners for about six months, causing loss to the Management and suffering to the workmen. "Who all have won? Hardly anyone. And who have all lost? Almost all", might possibly be the questions and answers. For a student of Trade Union History and Industrial Jurisprudence, this case may well serve an interesting case study in the modern trends of trade union functioning and the impact thereof on the society at large. Did proliferation of trade unions lead to an avoidable industrial strike? Was the Labour Department dynamic enough in solving a burning issue? What could possibly be the effective steps to checkmate such undesirable situations, at least in the future? All these questions emerging from the facts of the case may stir some thoughts socially relevant and politically pertinent. If the case evokes such a meaningful study, that may, to some extent, compensate the agony the workmen suffered and the loss the management sustained.