ORDER : - This is an application under Art.226 of the Constitution for the issue of a writ of certiorari to set aside the order of the Industrial Tribunal, Madurai, dated 11-11-1953 passed under S.20, Minimum Wages Act, (Act XI of 1948), hereinafter referred to as the Act.

2. The petitioner carries on a public motor transport service. Employment in public motor transport is item 11 of Part 1 of the schedule to the Act. The tribunal found that the first respondent was in the employ of the petitioner as a bus conductor between 7-11-1951 and 4-3-1953. The notification prescribed by S.3(1)(a)(i) and S.5 of the Act was issued by the Government of Madras, the appropriate Government, on 28-3-1952, fixing the minimum wages payable under the Act to a bus conductor at Rs.30 plus dearness allowance of Rs.10 a month.

3. On 30-6-1953, the first respondent applied to the Industrial Tribunal as the authority appointed under S.20, Clause (1) of the Act claiming in all a sum of Rs.3168/-, claimed Rs.288 as the balance of wages due to him under the Act and he claimed ten times that amount, Rs.2880 as compensation for the non-payment of the wages. The Tribunal dismissed his claim for compensat