Judgment

DUA, J.:- These toe appeals by special leave (C. As. Nos. 1704 and 1937 of 1967) are directed against the judgment of a Division Bench of the Bombay High Court dated August, 19, 1966 dismissing four applications under Art. 227 of the Constitution arising out of orders made by the Authority under the Minimum Wages Act 11 of 1948 (hereinafter called the Act) in repeat of claims made by employees of the `City of Nagpur Corporation (hereinafter called the Corporation) working in various Departments of the Corporation.

2. On July 13, 1964 Sitaram Madhorao, Chaukidar and 9 other employees of the Octroi Department of the Corporation filed an application under S. 20 of the Act in the Court of Small Causes at Nagpur, which was the Authority appointed under the Act. The application was presented through the General Secretary of the Nagpur Corporation Employees Association which was a registered trade union. The application is brief and, therefore, we consider it proper to reproduce its material parts in its own words:

"The applicants above named beg to submit as under:

(1) That the applicants are employees working in non-applicant No. 1, Nagpur Corporation in Department of School & o