Speagle v. United States Steel Corporation

The following is in response to your inquiry propounded to this Court under authority of section 88, Title 13, Code.

Your inquiry seeks a construction of section 214, subd. A, Title 26, as amended, pocket part, Code, in respect to a refusal by an employee to cross a picket line during a strike.

We think a few observations are pertinent before answering your questions in that connection. Attention is directed to the absence from section 214, subd. A, supra, of any reference to the act of crossing a picket line during a labor dispute.

It is observed that to disqualify an employee for receiving…