Campbell Unemployment Compensation Case

Opinion by

Woodside, J.,

This is an appeal from the Unemployment Compensation Board of Review’s denial of the appellant’s *594claim for unemployment compensation on the ground that claimant-appellant’s unemployment was “due to voluntarily leaving work without good cause” within the meaning of Section 402(b) of the Unemployment Compensation Law, as amended by the Act of May 23, 1949, P. L. 1738, §11, 43 PS 802.1

The claimant had been employed by the North American Refractories Company since the year 1917. He was laid off by the Company on March 29, 1952 because of the slackening of work at the…