This is a petition for the issue of a writ of certiorari to call for the records in Industrial Dispute No.23 of 1952, before the Industrial Tribunal, Madras and the Labour Appellate Tribunal on appeal therefrom and to quash the proceedings thereof.

The petition arises out of a dispute between a cinema concern by name the Odeon Cinema and certain workmen of the Sagar Talkies, represented by the ‘South Indian Cinema Employees’ Association. The facts giving rise to this dispute are as follows:-

In premises No.8(a) in Woods Road, Royapettah, the owners of the building thereon were carrying on a cinema business under the name of Sagar Talkies having fitted it up with the furniture, talkies equipment, electrical machinery, etc. They had on their rolls a number of workmen, who are collectively the first respondents in this writ petition. While so a firm by name Ishwaradas Sahni and Brothers, who are carrying on the business of running cinemas in several places in India under the name of Odeon Cinema, approached the owners of these premises for a lease of the building to enable them to conduct their own cinema business in the said place. The negotiations were started towards the end o