JUDGMENT: The petitioner, the employer, is a sub-agent of the Standard Vacuum Oil Company in Quilon, and he terminated the employment of three workmen on October 3, 1956. On October 19, 1956, they enrolled themselves as members of a labour Union called "The Quilon Commercial Staff Association", hereafter referred to as the Union, which took up their cause and raised a dispute which was referred by the first respondent, the Government, of the State of Kerala, to the second respondent, the Industrial Tribunal, to be referred to as the Tribunal, as "the Industrial Dispute between the management of Standard Vacuum Oil Company, Sub-Agency, Quilon, represented by the Sub-Agent, and the workmen of the above concern represented by the Quilon Commercial Staff Association". The reference concerned two issues, the first of which related to the termination of the employment of the three workmen and the second, to their claim for bonus, for the years 1953 to 1956. At an early stage of the proceedings before the Tribunal the workmen were allowed at their request, to be represented by the Quilon Commercial and Industrial Employees Association, of which the third respondent is the President, inste

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