Horwill, J.-On the 5th March, 1948, by G.O.Mis.No.1115, the Government issued a notification which runs.

“Whereas industrial disputes have arisen between the workers and managements of certain Engineering firms and Type foundries in the Province of Madras and whereas industrial disputes are apprehended in the rest of the Engineering firms and Type foundries in respect of certain matters;. . . . . . . in the exercise of the powers conferred by section 7 (1) and (2) read with section 10(1)(c) of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 ...... His Excellency, the Governor of Madras hereby constitutes an industrial Tribunal consisting of one person, namely, Sri T. D. Ramayya Pantulu......and directs that the said industrial disputes be referred to that Tribunal for adjudication.”

It is seen that in this notification there is no reference to any specific disputes between any group of workers and managements; nor is there any specification of the firms in which disputes between the management and workers existed. The short question to be decided in this appeal is whether a general notification of this kind without specification of either the disputes or the firms in which disputes have ar