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Industrial dispute Representation--Rival executives of office bearers of Trade Union-Executive allegedly elected during pendency ' of reference before Labour Court claiming to represent Trade Union as against executive initially sponsoring and espousing reference,- Executive sponsoring and espousing reference for adjudication at industrial stage, in circumstances, held,- entitled to represent before Labour Court on principles- of Justice and in interest of fairplay.   AWARD AGHA IMDADALLY CHAIRMAN). Reference was made by the then Provincial Government of West Pakistan on 13th March 1970 for adjudication and determination of the industrial Dispute which had arisen between the Management and its Workers in the Banaras Saree House Ltd, Karachi.    A few more industrial disputes regarding other concerns had also been referred by this common order but we are concerned here with the case of the Banaras Saree House Ltd. 2. At the time of this Reference there was only one Trade Union of its Workers in relation to Banaras Saree House Ltd., Karachi which was named and styled as Banaras Saree House Workers' Union and this Union in its capacity as a Collective Bargaining Agent in respect of the Banaras Saree House Ltd., had raised the present Industrial Dispute resulting in the Reference to this Court. After the Reference order was received in this Court the Workers' Union filed its statement of claims and on service of summonses for the present proceedings the Banaras Saree House Ltd. also filed its reply statement. These formalities were completed by 26th June 1970 by which time this Court had seen two Chairmen after whom I took over charge here as the Chairman of this Court on 1st September 1970. Fresh notices were issued to the parties for proceeding with the case. By 23rd September 1970, both the parties were duly served and the case was set down for hearing on this date. It might be mentioned that the General Secretary of the Workers' Union aforesaid at the time of Reference was Mr. Muhammad Akbar. On 23rd September 1970, the first date of final hearing, two Advocates filed their vakalatnama and sought permission to represent one…