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8. Keeping in view the aforesaid limitation, this Court has to examine the correctness of the award passed by the Learned Presiding Officer, Industrial Tribunal. The Industrial Tribunal has taken into consideration the fact that the plea of the workmen gains support in the preponderance of evidence adduced by the workmen that their services were utilized in hand composing so also other jobs and that they were transferred from one place to other to work as helpers, dispatchers and the like. It is in the evidence that in the midst of the tenure of engagement of the second party, the management designated the members of the second party who has put in fairly long length of service as apprentice as per the communication dated 27.01.1997.The Industrial Tribunal weighed the fact that the management has not given any convincing evidence for the change in the status of the workmen. The Industrial Tribunal also came to the conclusion that the standing order does not authorize the management to bring out a reduction in the status of the workman from temporary to apprentice to learn work of any unskilled nature.