JUDGMENT :

Rajamannar, J.—This is an application by Sri Meenakshi Mills Ltd., Mathurai for the issue of a writ of certiorari to call for the records in Industrial Dispute No. 28 of 1949 before the Industrial Tribunal, Mathurai and to quash the award made therein on 14-4-1950 and for the issue of a writ of prohibition prohibiting the State of Madras from enforcing the award passed by the tribunal and approved by it under G. O. No. 1491. By G. O. Ms. No. 5793 Development dated 7-12-1949 the Government made a reference of an industrial dispute which had arisen between the workers and the management of the Meenakshi Mills Ltd., in respect of matters mentioned in the annexure to that order to the Industrial Tribunal at Mathurai for adjudication. The annexure contained eight items out of which we are concerned in this application only with two, namely, items 4 and 6 which run as follows:

"4. Reinstatement of Sri V. Srinivasan, Secretary of the Meenakshi Mills Workers' Union, Mathurai, with compensation for the period of his unemployment.

6. Payment of 3 3/4th months' wages as bonus, for the year 1948 without deducting for leave and etc."

The Industrial Tribunal, after enquiry, passed an awar