ORDER : The Buckingham and Carnatic Co., Ltd. - I shall hereafter call it the Mills - employs in all some 14,700 persons. Of these about 700 belong to the clerical establishment 434 members of the clerical establishment belong to the Buckingham and Carnatic Mills Staff Union. Some 10,000 of the workmen including a few members of the clerical establishment belong to the Madras Labour Union. In March 1955 the Madras Labour Union wrote to the management making various demands on behalf of the employees of the mills. Conciliation proceedings were started, but they ended in failure.

In November 1955, the Government of Madras referred various matters in issue between the Madras Labour Union and the Mills to the Industrial Tribunal, Madras. Subsequently the Labour Union and the management agreed that the disputes might be referred to arbitration by a sitting Judge of this court, and, Ramaswami Goundar J. was appointed arbitrator. On 19-1-1957 he made an award.

2. In the clerical establishment of the Mills are a number of persons engaged in working various calculating machines. They are called Comptists and Machine operators. Subsequent to the award which Ramaswami Goundar J. made o