JUDGMENT - Shah, J.

1. The question which falls to be determined in this appeal is whether it is open to the Industrial Tribunal under the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947, to award lay-off compensation to workmen employed in an ""industrial establishment"" to which Section 25-C of the Act does not apply.

2. The two appellants are respectively a private limited company carrying on the business of a steel rolling mill and the Managing Director of that company. At alt material times the appellants employed on an average per working day less than fifty workmen. The workmen employed by the appellants raised an industrial dispute claiming that the appellants ""shall give regular work of average 25 days in a month throughout the year or pay wages and allowances for the minimum of 25 days in a month with effect from 1556"", and without prejudice to that demand they also made claim that ""with effect from 1st April, 1956, in case regular work cannot be provided and if the workers are laid off or had to suffer involuntary unemployment, they shall be given full wages and allowances for the days they are so laid-off or involuntarily unemployed."" The workmen also claimed that those who had not bee

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