Kraft v. Texas Employment Commission

NORVELL, Justice.

The petitioners, William Kraft and forty-eight others, claim benefits under the Texas Unemployment Compensation Act. The primary question for decision is whether petitioners are disqualified from receiving such benefits under subsection (d) of section 3 of the Act, as amended in 1955, Article 5221b-3(d), Vernon’s Ann.Tex. Stats.

Petitioners were employed by Shamrock Oil and Gas Corporation in 1964 and on August 9th of that year went on strike against the company’s three plants. Thereafter, they offered to return to work but were told that the places formerly held by them had…