Nainar Sundaram, J.

These Writ Appeals are against a common order in Writ Petitions Nos. 1742 and 1743 of 1982. The first- respondent in the Writ Petitions is the appellant in the Writ Appeals. The petitioner in each of the Writ Petitions is the first-respondent in the respective Writ Appeals. The second-respondent in the Writ Petitions is the second-respondent in the Writ Appeals. For the sake of convenience, we shall refer to the parties as they stood arrayed in the Writ Petitions.

2. An industrial dispute between the T.U.C.S. Employees' Union and the first-respondent relating to wage increase, wastage, driage and spillage allowance and non-employment of certain workmen was conciliated before the Deputy Commissioner of Labour-I, Madras. It is to be noted that the two petitioners were amongst the workmen non- employed by the first respondent. There was a settlement on 2nd July, 1977 under S. 12(3) of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947, hereinafter referred to as 'the Act'. While the other issues were settled in the real sense, terms were mutually arrived at between the parties and a quietus was given to such issues, with regard to the dispute relating to on-employment of