( 1 ) PETITIONERS Nos. 4 and 5 are directors of petitioner No. 1 company and partners in the firms of petitioners Nos. 2 and 3. They were concerned with the publication of the daily newspaper Jan Tantra which we are informed is now defunct. For convenience and brevity we shall refer to them collectively. Respondent No. 1 who is a journalist filed an application for the recovery of Rs. 2 726 from the petitioners under sec. 15 of the Payment of Wages Act before respondent So. 2 who is the Authority under the Payment of Wages Act to be referred to by us as the Authority. The case of respondent No. 1 before the Authority was that he was employed as an Editor of the daily newspaper Jan Tantra from 1/06/1958 on a monthly salary Rs. 175/or the wages to be fixed by the Wages Board appointed by the Government of India whichever was higher. It was also his case before the Authority that he was employed to do work in various other capacities viz. that of a reporter an advertisement canvasser a translator and a proof reader and that for the extra work payment was to be made to him in addition to the salary. According to him he worked in that manner upto February 1959 but for the