M.A. Ansari, C.J.

1. The writ petitioner in O. P. No. 296/59 is the appellant, and seeks to set aside the award by the Industrial Tribunal, Trivandrum in Dispute No. 1/57. The aforesaid prayer has been rejected by a learned Judge of this Court; hence this appeal.

2. The facts leading to the petition, can be shortly stated: The appellant, who is a sub-agent of the Standard Vaccum Oil Company in Quilon, had dismissed three workmen on October 3, 1956. The employees got themselves subsequently enrolled as members of the "Quilon Commercial Staff Association", and on October 19, 1956, a dispute between the employer and the aforesaid association developed, in which the Government had referred two questions to the Tribunal, by order of January 8, 1957. Before the Tribunal, the dismissed workers, on January 28, 1957 filed a petition, praying that in the proceedings they may be allowed to be represented by the Quilon Commercial and Industrial Employees' Association, because they had, after the reference, resigned the membership of the former and had joined the latter association. On February 16, 1957, the Secretary of the Quilon Industrial Commercial Staff Association also submitted to