CHAGLA, C.J.:- 168 employees of the Ahmedabad Spinning and Manufacturing Company, Ltd., which is represented by its manager as opponent No.1, filed an application before the Authority under the Payment of Wages Act alleging that wages were due to them from 29-12-1953 to 10-1-1954, amounting in all to Rs.114. The contention of the employees was that they were each attending to four looms in the mills, that they had been paid on a certain basis and that their wages had been illegally reduced by the mills and their proper wages had not been paid to them.

The Authority gave a direction to the mills to pay the amount claimed. The mills went in appeal to the District Court and the learned Extra Assistant Judge at Ahmedabad has reversed the decision of the Authority and the employees through the General Secretary of the Mill Mazdoor Mandal, of which they are members, have come on this petition challenging that decision.

2. Now, it appears that an award was made in 1948 in a dispute between the Ahmedabad Millowners Association and the Textile Labour Association by which the rates of various textile workers were standardised, and among the wages that were standardised were the wages