JUDGMENT :

M.U. Isaac, J.—This writ petition has been filed to quash an award Ext. P-6 dated 28-11-1969 passed by the second respondent, the Industrial Tribunal, Calicut in I.D. No. 41 of 1967. The petitioner is the proprietor of a textile shop by name Vimala Stores, Thodupuzha. In a part of the building wherein he is carrying on the said business, there are a number of tailors engaged in making clothes. According to the petitioner, all of them were engaged by one Vasu Pillai who takes orders from the public. The petitioner is also dealing in ready-made clothes ; and admittedly he used to give orders for making clothes to the above tailors through Vasu Pillai. By April, 1967, these tailors and the persons working under them claimed to be workmen of the petitioner ; and they started an agitation to get their demands recognised by the petitioner, with the result the petitioner was obliged to close his shop for some days. At that time, one K. Y. George, who styled himself as the Convenor of the Action Council of the Vimala Tailors' Union, Thodupuzha, issued a registered notice Ext. P-l, dated 14-4-1967, to the petitioner making certain demands on behalf of the said workers. This was fo