Industrial Dispute Act, 1947
Employers’ and Workmen’s Disputes Act, 1860 was the first enactment dealing with the settlement of industrial disputes. This Act replaced by the Trade Disputes Act, 1929 as it weighed much against the workers. Also, the Act of 1929 contained special provisions regarding strikes in public utility services. And, general strikes affecting the community as a whole. 
However, providing conciliation machinery was the main purpose of the Act. To bring, about a peaceful settlement of industrial disputes. The Whitely Commission made in this regard the perceptive observation that the attempt to deal with. Unrest must begin rather with the creation of an atmosphere unfavourable to disputes than with machinery for their settlement.
The next stage in the development of industrial law in this country was taken under the stress of emergency caused by the Second World War. To provide speedy remedies for industrial disputes by referring them compulsorily to conciliation, rule 81-A of the Defence of India Rules was the intention of it. Also, by making the awards legally binding adjudication, on the parties and by prohibiting strikes. This rule also put a blanket ban on strikes which did not arise out of genuine trade disputes. Or lock-outs during the pendency of conciliation or adjudication proceedings and for two months thereafter.
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