Ramachandra Iyer, C.J.-

These are appeals under clause 15 of the Letters Patent against the Judgment of Veeraswami, J., in batch of Writ Petitions filed under Article 226 of the Constitution by the management of the Hindu for the issue of a writ of certiorari to quash the orders passed by the Labour Court, Madras under section 9 (2) of the Working Journalists (Fixation of Rates of Wages) Act XXIX of 1958 directing the payment of certain sums by the management to the third respondent in the several appeals. The latter are being employed as copyholders in the press. The management have prescribed a grades system of wages to them. Their work is associated with the correction of proofs in the preparation of the daily newspaper run by it. In preparing the daily, the matter taken up for publication whether it be in the form of manuscript or typed script goes through four stages of proof correction before it is finally incorporated in the final publication. The first or what is called the rough proof is checked up by the manuscript or typed script by two sets of persons acting together, namely the proof readers and the copyholders. The latter reads out the matter given for printing, w