Nainar Sundaram, J.

This Writ appeal is directed against the order of Padmanabhan, J., in W.P. No. 447 of 1982. The petitioner to the writ petition is the appellant in the writ appeal and the respondents therein are the respondents in the writ appeal and the parties shall be referred to in this judgment by their application in the writ petition. The writ petition was filed to quash the order passed by the first respondent under S. 10(1)(c) of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947, hereinafter referred to as the Act, referring for adjudication to the second respondent an industrial dispute between the petitioner and its workmen with reference to non-employment of respondents 3 to 6. The preceding facts are as follows :-

On 20th October, 1980, the petitioner suspended respondents 3 to 6, who were it workmen. Pursuant to a resolution passed on 2nd January, 1981, relating to certain demands, including reinstatement of the suspended workmen, the Union of the workmen, the seventh respondent, issued a strike notice on 12th January, 1981. On 28th January, 1981, the Assistant Commissioner of Labour, Coimbatore, requested the seventh respondent not to resort to strike and the petitione