( 1 ) IN these appeals certain questions of general importance such as whether on an award of Industrial Tribunal a settlement entered into between the management and workmen under Section 18 (1) of the Industrial disputes Act, 1947 for short, 'the Act' and accepted by vast majority of workmen can be set at naught by the High Court in exercise of its extraordinary jurisdiction under Article 226 of the Constitution on the ground that all workmen are not parties to the settlement; whether an Industrial Tribunal is obliged to apply norms applicable to industrial adjudication on a wage dispute while accepting the settlement and passing an award in terms thereof arise for consideration.

( 2 ) THE appellants are Beedi industries and they being aggrieved by the judgment of the learned single Judge dated February 1, 1999 in w. P. Nos. 7588-7593 of 1998 have preferred these writ appeals. The first respondent in each of these appeals, namely, Mangalore Ganesh beedi Workers' and Allied Beedi Factory workers Association, for short, 'the Union' representing the workmen in the concerned industries preferred W. P. Nos. 7588-7593 of 1998 under Articles 226 and 227 of the constituti