1. The above revision has been preferred as against the order passed by the Appellate Authority under the Payment of Wages Act (Additional District Judge of Tirunelveli) in C.M.A. Nos. 5/89 to 37/89 dated 30.9.1993.

2. It is necessary to state the following facts of this case. The petitioner herein is a public utility service, engaged in the manufacture of cement The Cement and Quarry Workers Union, of which the respondents are members had issued a strike notice on 20.1.1987, intimating that the said Union proposed to strike work on 5.2.87. A Copy of this notice was sent to the Assistant Labour Commissioner (Central), Trivandrum and the Deputy Commissioner of Labour, Tirunelveli alongwith other persons. The Labour Officer, Tirunelveli initiated Conciliation proceedings and called upon the petitioner and the respondents before him on 27.1.1987. It was contended before the Labour Officer that the Cement and Quarry Workers Union of which the respondent is a member has no representative capacity. Moreover, it is further pointed out that the wages and other service conditions in the Cement Industries are decided at All India level. It was further pointed out that so far as th