Thomas v. California Employment Stabilization Commission

Defendants appeal from a judgment which granted a writ of mandate ordering benefits to be paid to plaintiff and 190 other employees of defendant Pacific Lumber Company under the Unemployment Insurance Act. (Stats. 1935, p. 1226, as amended; 2 Deering’s Gen. Laws [1937], Act 8780d; 3 Deering’s Gen. Laws [1944], Act 8780d.) The judgment set aside a decision of the California Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board which denied such benefits to the claimants.

The logging employees of the company struck and set up a picket line around the company’s sawmill. Claimants, who were plant or mill…