General Motors Corp. v. Unemployment Compensation Commission

This case involves the right of defendant and appellant, Ahira H. Rose, Jr., to unemployment compensation. For many years he was in the employ of plaintiff, General Motors Corporation, as a die sinker. Due to a UAW-CIO strike in November, 1945, Rose and some 40 or 50 other die sinkers were temporarily out of employment. Later Rose applied for unemployment compensation for the period during which he was out of work. At hearings before the unemployment compensation commission, the referee, and the appeal board, it was held that Rose was entitled to compensation. On certiorari to the circuit…