In re the Claim of Bartlett

Appeal by the claimant from a decision of .the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board holding him ineligible to receive benefits effective August 22, 1966 on the ground that he was not totally unemployed (Labor Law, § 522). Claimant, an employee of the National Gypsum Company, became unemployed due to a strike and after the expiration of the statutory suspension period (Labor Law, § 592, subd. 1) filed for benefits. The board has ruled him ineligible in that he was not totally unemployed within the meaning of section 522 of the Labor Law because of his ownership and operation of a farm on which…