Lewis v. Industrial Commission

The Commission found these facts:

“Joseph Lewis had been employed by the respondent for many years. During the summer, of 1921 and particularly during the time prior to July 7, 1921, there was a lull in the work at the coal yard, but the crew was kept together at ‘tinkering’ about the yard in order to keep the crew together. The evidence is quite convincing that on July 6th and also on the 7th the men did very little work. On the 6th, after putting in the full day but working only about an hour, the men were permitted to return and to leave their work at four in the afternoon and to come back…