Kennecott Copper Corp. Employees v. Department of Employment Security of the Industrial Commission

CROCKETT, Justice.

Plaintiffs, employees of Kennecott Copper Corporation, seek reversal of an order of the Industrial Commission denying them unemployment compensation on the basis of Sec. 35^4 — 5, U.C.A.1953, which provides :

“An individual shall be ineligible for benefits * * * (d) For any week in which it is found by the commission that his unemployment is due to a stoppage of work which exists because of a strike involving his grade, class, or group of workers at the factory or establishment at which he is or was last employed.”

Kennecott conducts a large mining, (Bingham) smelting and…