Fleiszig v. Board of Review of the Division of Unemployment Compensation of the Department of Labor

In the Spring of 1949 Frederick Fleiszig, Andrew Brandies, Theodore Rachkus and Frank Golob, former employees of the Panther Creek Coal Company, each filed a claim for unemployment benefits under the Unemployment Compensation Act. (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1947, chap. 48, pars. 217-250.) Each claim was denied by the claims deputy, whose decisions were thereafter affirmed on appeal to a referee of the Unemployment Commission. Each claimant thereupon appealed to the Board of Review of the Department of Labor, where the appeals were consolidated and additional evidence on behalf of the claimants was…