Stewart v. Department of Industrial Relations

CATES, Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Marshall Circuit Court denying a claim for unemployment compensation benefits.

Mrs. Stewart worked in the Saratoga Victory Mill in Albertville as a battery *385hand on cotton looms. Her duties were to replace quills (bobbins) of thread as the looms used them up. She was paid by the hour.

Ownership of the mill changed hands and a different type of quill was put in. The work load of a battery hand was raised from 88 batteries to 100 and then to 153. There was some evidence that the change in the work arrangements made a battery hand’s job lighter.

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