1. This is an application on behalf of the Firm of M.M. Nagalinga Nadar Sons, Quilon (hereinafter referred to as the petitioners) through one of their partners under Art. 226 of the Constitution, asking this court to call up the records in Industrial Dispute No. 8 of 1950 on the file of the Industrial Tribunal, Alleppey and to grant the following reliefs:

(a) To grant a declaration that there is or can be, no "Industrial Dispute" within the meaning of the Industrial Disputes Act, central or local, as between the petitioner and his coolies and to restrain Travancore-Cochin State (respondent No. 3) by injunction from any interference in their mutual relationship under and by virtue of the Industrial Disputes Act;

(b) To issue a writ in the nature of certiorari and prohibition quashing the proceedings of the said Tribunal

(respondent No. 2);

(c) To issue a writ in the nature of mandamus allowing the representation of the petitioner in the proceedings before the Tribunal through its legal adviser and to give such further or other directions as the circumstances of the case require.

The Ambalapuzha Taluq Head Load Conveyance Worker's Union, Alleppey is Respondent No.1 to this app