( 1 ) INDIAN Air Gases Limited manufacturers of oxygen and dissolve actyiene gases at its factory at Moghalsarai in Varanasi district. It has its registered office at Kanpur. Air Gases Mazdeor Sangh is the union of the employees working in the factory at Moghalsarai. Petitioners Nos. 2 to 11 are the employees of the respondent-company who have been working in the factory at Moghalsarai ever since their employment. In September, 1975, the management of the respondent-company transferred petitioners Nos. 2 to II from its factory at Moghalsarai to its head office at Kanpur under Clause 8 (b) of the standing orders. The standing orders proposed by the respondent-company were certified by the certifying officer on 23rd July, 1975, under the Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Act, 1946. The union, namely, petitioner No. 1, as well as the affected employees, petitioners Nos. 2 to 11, preferred appeal before the Industrial Tribunal (1), Allahabad, under Section 6 of the Industrial Employment (Standing Orders) Act, 1946, against the orders of the certifying officer. The Industrial Tribunal by its order dated 24th October, 1975, rejected the appeal on the ground of delay