The Chief Justice.-This application is made by the Kandan Textiles Limited, for the issue of a writ of certiorari to call for the records in the matter of the industrial dispute between the workers and the management of the Kandan Textiles, Limited, before the Industrial. Tribunal I, Madras and the award therein, dated 23rd May, 1949 and to quash the same.

The applicant company is the proprietor of a small weaving mill located in Tiruvottiyur, Madras, employing 60 looms and about 200 workers. On 21st January, 1948, one R.M. Sundaram one of the workmen in the mill was dismissed by the management on the ground that he was responsible for the loss of a flexible shaft. He made attempts through the Labour Conciliation Officer to get himself re-instated but did not succeed in his attempt. On 23rd August, 1948, the boiler in the mills broke down and the mills were closed from 24th August, 1948, till nth October, 1948. On the intervention of the Labour Authorities, 14 days’ wages were paid to practically all the workers. On 12th October, 1948, the mill reopened. Most of the workmen who had been working in the mill on the date of the closure were taken in, but 48 of them were left out.