The union pointed out (1) that at the time when the said complaint was lodged in 1957 before the Conciliation Officer the union 's 'president was one Varma, (2) that in the meantime elections for the union 's office bearers took place when the said Har Sahai Choudhury and one Girish Chandra Bharati were elected president and working president respectively ' (3) that the above mentioned individuals appeared before the conciliation officer, but the said Varma did not, as he had failed in the elections, (4) that dispute arose about the said elections and the Registrar of the Trade Union , refused to recognise the new office bearers, and ( I) that the conciliation officer also refused to recognise the said Har Sahai Choudhary and Bharati a,; the duly elected president and working president, and therefore, although both of 381 them attended the meeting fixed by that officer, the latter recorded that no authorised agent of the union had appeared before him and no conciliation, therefore, could be arrived at.