evidence: With the growth of industries in India, problems relating to payment of wages to persons employed in industry took an ugly turn. The Industrial units were not making payment of wages to their workers at regular intervals and wages were not uniform. The industrial workers were forced to raise their heads against their exploitation. [...] Provided that no direction for the payment of compensation shall be made in the case of delayed wages if the authority is satisfied that the delay was due to- (a)a bona fide error or bona fide dispute as to the amount payable to the employed person, or (b)the occurrence of an emergency, or the existence of exceptional circumstances, such that the person responsible for the payment of the wages was unable, though exercising reasonable diligence, to make prompt payment, or (c)the failure of the employed person to apply for or accept payment. [...] I/We employed person(s) hereby authorise a legal practitioner / an official of which is a registered trade union to act on my/ our behalf under section 15 and section 17 of the Payment of Wages Act, 1936 (4 of 1936), in respect of the claim against on account of the delay in payment illegal deductions from my / our wages for