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(c) " Ticket " includes a Card, pass or token.

(d) " Workman " means such categories of employees as may from time to time be declared to be " Workman " by the Management ".

Standing Order no. 3 classifies employees into certain categories and Standing Order no. 4 deals with tickets. In substance, it says that every workman, permanent or temporary, shall have a ticket or card, and an apprentice shall have an apprentice card; the tickets or cards issued shall be surrendered when the workman is discharged or ceases to belong to the class of employment for which the card or ticket is issued. It is to be noticed that under the definition clause " workman " means such categories of employees as may from time to time be declared, to be workmen by the management and Standing Order no. 4 makes it clear that every workman, permanent or temporary, will have a ticket. Standing Order no. 16 deals with termination of employment, and cl. (1) thereof, relevant for our purpose, must be quoted in full-

It has been suggested that Standing Order no. 4 is not exhaustive in the matter of issue of tickets; it talks of an issue of a ticket to every permanent workman, a card to every badli workman, a temporary ticket to every temporary workman, and an apprentice card to every apprentice. It does not prescribe the issue of a pass or token, though the definition of a 'ticket' includes a pass or token. The suggestion further is that Standing Order no. 2 (a) itself authorises the issue of tickets to other employees, so that there may be one kind of tickets issued to workmen under standing Order no. 4 and another kind of tickets to other employees under Standing Order no. 2 (a). On this view, it, is suggested that the alternatives mentioned in Standing Order no. 8 (b) really amount to an option given to an employee either to mark his attendance or present his ticket. It is, however, difficult to understand the necessity of an option of this kind when every employee must have a ticket, particularly when the exercise of such an option is likely to defeat the very purpose for which tickets are issued in an industrial establishment. We do not, however, think that the case of the respondent is in any way strengthened by holding that Standing Order no. 2