JUDGMENT :- There are two petitioners before me, Kesab Lal Bannerjee and Hiralal Bannerjee, Their father, Monilal Bannerjee, carried on business as a supplier of tally clerks to ships that call at the Port of Calcutta. He had been carrying on this business ever since 1918. After his death in 1939, his business was continued by the petitioners who are two brothers under the firm name of "M. L. Bannerjee and Sons". As such, they have also been carrying on business as supplier of tally clerks to ships that call at the Port of Calcutta. The way that the business is carried on is that the petitioners employ a number of tally clerks, whom they supply to ships according to their requirements. In the year 1948, was enacted the Dock Workers (Regulation of Employment) Act, 1948 being Central Act IX of 1948. This Act was promulgated to provide for regulating the employment of dock workers. The Act contemplates the drawing up of a scheme for the registration of dock workers, with a view to ensuring greater regularity of employment and for regulating the employment of dock workers, whether registered or not, in a Port. In exercise of the powers conferred by the Act, the Central Government, in o

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