Judgement

WANCHOO, J. : This is an appeal by special leave against the judgment of the Bombay High Court by which the writ petition filed by the appellant was summarily dismissed. The brief facts necessary for the purpose of this appeal are these: The appellant is a cotton mill in Ahmedabad. Respondents Nos. 2(a) to 2(n) are the fourteen employees of the appellant designated as grey-folders. Under the Bombay Industrial Disputes Act, 1938, (since repealed by the Bombay Industrial Relations Act, No. XI of 1947, which came into force on April 15, 1947), the Registrar had made a notification recognising various occupations in cotton textile mills. Folders were put in group F of this notification while clerks were put in group H . In December 1946, the Textile Labour Association of Ahmedabad gave a notice of change to the Mill-owners Association for standardisation of wages of the various occupations in the cotton textile industry. Thereupon a reference was made by the State Government in June 1947 to the industrial Court, which, by the first part of its award, fixed wages for grey-folders doing cut-looking work at Rs. 42-4-0 per mensem. Later the same Court gave the second part of i