Pledger v. Department of Industrial Relations

CATES, Judge.

Pledger worked at Republic Steel Corporation’s Sayre Coal Mine in Jefferson County. He has been disqualified (under the labor dispute section) by the circuit court of that county from drawing unemployment compensation.

The L. & N. Railroad Company has a spur track coming into the Sayre mine property. This track runs between the bath house where the miners change their work clothes and the terminus of the haulage railway (or “man-trip,” see § 55, Act No. 207, August 12, 1949) which serves the mine.

In the spring of 1955, various maintenance and other nonoperating workers of the…