( 1 ) THE writ petition is directed against the Notification dated June 16, 1992 issued by the State government under Section 3 (a) of the U. P. Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 (herein after referred to as the Act) published in Extra Ordinary Official Gazette Uttar Pradesh under Section 19 of the said Act on the same date. The State Government in purported exercise of its power under section 3 (a) of the Act has prohibited lock-out in M/s. Prag Vanaspati Product for a period of 180 days w. e. f. the date of publication of the Notification in the Official Gazette. The notification being relevant for the purposes of discussing the controversy involved the case is quoted below:

( 2 ) M/s. Prag Varnaspati Product, the petitioner is a registered firm engaged in manufacture of vanaspati. It is an Industry within the meaning of the term defined in Section 2 (k) of the Act. The production in the petitioner-factory was, it is alleged, quite smooth and normal upto 1990 but in the month of January, 1991, the workers of the factory are said to have adopted go slow tactice and subsequently they are said to have indulged in further activities of lawlessness and of causing damage to