1. The main question which is required to be determined in these writ petitions is as to whether the pasting of a notice on the notice board directing the workman, whose service has been terminated, to collect his wages from the office of the employer would amount to sufficient compliance with the provisions. of Section 25F (b) of the industrial Disputes Act, 1947 (hereinafter called the Act As the same question has been raised in all these writ petitions, it would be proper to dispose them of by a common order.

2. The farts which have given rise to these writ petitions are short and simple. The petitioners were posted as Class IV -employees in the Loco Shed at Ranapratapnagar railway station of the Western Railway as substitute workmen. The Loco Foreman, Western Railway, Ranapratapnagar railway station, issued notices to the petitioners in March and April, 1975, intimating them that their services shall stand terminated on the expiry of a notice period of one month. The reason for the termination of the service of the petitioners as substitutes was given by the Loco Foreman .as 'reduction in cadre'. The contention of the learned counsel for the petitioners is that retrench