JUDGMENT - B.N. SRIKRISHNA, J.:---This writ petition under Article 227 of the Constitution of India impugn an Order dated 27th March, 1986 made by the First Labour Court, Pune, in Complaint (ULP/LCP) No. 40 of 1984, under the provisions of the Maharashtra Recognition of Trade Unions and Prevention of Unfair Labour Practices Act, 1971 (hereinafter referred to as "The Act").

2. The first respondent is a company carrying on business in the engineering industry and owns a factory at Pune. The petitioner was employed in the said factory. The factory, at the material time, employed about 600 workmen. The workmen resorted to a tool-down strike from 18th May, 1983 to 22nd June, 1983, and thereafter a total strike from 26th June, 1983, to 2nd July, 1963. During this period, a meeting was held on 29th May, 1983, near Mehta Hospital, Chinchwad, Pune, which was addressed by the activists of the union sponsoring the strike. During the said meeting, one Moses Gabriel Francis, a senior workman of the Factory, voiced his doubts as to the advisability of carrying on the strike. He urged upon the workmen to reconsider the continuation of the strike, which was inflicting hardship on the workmen. Moses

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