JUDGMENT :

1. By this writ petition under Articles 226 and 227 of the Constitution of India the petitioner impugns an Award dated December 19, 1984, and by the Central Government Industrial Tribunal, Bombay, in Reference No. COTT-14 of 1983 under the provisions of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 (hereinafter referred to as 'the Act').

2. The petitioner is a registered trade union which represents, inter alia, the workmen employed in the Bombay Docks including the workmen employed by the individual members of the first Respondent which is an Association of the Stevedores operating in the Bombay Docks. The second Respondent is an Industrial Tribunal constituted under the provisions of the Act.

3. The petitioner, on behalf of the workmen employed by the members of the first Respondent-Association, had raised an industrial dispute for payment of bonus or payment of ex-gratis in lieu of bonus for the accounting year 1982-83. Failing settlement and conciliation, the said demand came to be referred for adjudication of the second Respondent-Tribunal by an order of reference made by the appropriate Government on November 26, 1983. The schedule to the order of referenc specifies the dispute r