This is an application for issuing a writ of certiorari to call for the records and quash the notification of Government in G.O. No. 4605, Development Department, dated 19th October, 1951 or to issue an order in the nature of mandamus directing the Industrial Tribunal, Madurai, to forbear from proceeding with the reference made by the Government. The petitioner is the Dindigul Skin Merchants Association. That Association was formed to represent the employers of about nineteen tanneries. In regard to the employees working in those tanneries there are three associations, (1) the National Tanneries Workers Association, Dindigul registered on 5th July, 1948, (2) Tanneries Labour Union, Dindigul formed on 20th November, 1950 and (3) The Tannery Workers Union, Dindigul, registered in the year 1942. It was banned by Government in September, 1949. The ban was lifted in November, 1950 and it began to function again from April, 1951. The total number of members on the books in regard to the first union was 511, on 31st March, 1951. The membership of the 3rd respondent was 194 on 31st March, 1951. The fourth respondent had 420 members on 31st March, 1947. There were disputes between th