JUDGMENT - V.V. VAZE, J.:---Messrs. Bombay Wire Healds Manufacturing Company of Sonawala Estate, Goregaon (East), Bombay, are an ancillary unit engaged in the manufacture of the Wire Healds which are used by textile mills in their Weaving Departments. The purchasing mills require bundle of 500 pieces of wire and though the wires are manufactured in the factory premises at Goregaon by the appellant Company, they find it economical, with a view to conserve scarce floor space of their premises, to get the threading of these wires and bundling them together from housewives who do the work at their own premises. The material required viz. the wires, the thread etc. is supplied by the factory to the housewives who collect the same in the factory premises in the morning, take them to their respective homes and after completing the threading and bundling work, return the packages the next day. These packages are then examined by checkers and packers and the housewives are paid at the rate of 10 paise per bundle of 500 wires. Sometimes, even permanent employees of the factory take the material and the thread at home to augment their income but generally it is done by non-working housewives

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