JUDGMENT :

K.K. Mathew, J.—These are applications for issuing the appropriate writs or directions quashing Ex. A order passed by respondent 2, the labour court, Quilon, on 14 May 1964. Exhibit A order was passed on the basis of the applications made by the workmen concerned u/s 330 (2) of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947, hereinafter called the Act, requesting the Court to determine the compensation and notice-pay payable to them for their past services with the petitioners. Their case was that they were permanent workmen under the petitioners, who are stevedores and that with the promulgation of the Cochin Dock Workers (Regulation of Employment) Scheme, 1959, under the Dock Workers (Regulation of Employment) Act, 1948, their services were terminated without payment of compensation or notice-pay as required by Section 25F and therefore they were entitled to have amounts payable to them to be computed u/s 33C (2) of the Act. Pursuant to the notices on the applications petitioners entered appearance and filed written statements denying their liability to pay retrenchment compensation and notice-pay. The petitioners resisted the claims on the ground that the workmen in question were c