Elnit Unemployment Compensation Case

Opinion by

Dithrich, J.,

Claimant, known in the trade as a “single-needle sewing machine operator,” was last employed on a piecework basis at an average of 80 cents per hour by the Wagman Dress Shop, 811 N. 19th Street, Philadelphia. After working for a period of one month she was laid off June 22, 1949, due to lack of work, without any understanding that she would be recalled.

On July 10, 1949, the Pennsylvania Employment Office referred her to a job with the Yogue Novelty Company, 12th and Brown Streets, Philadelphia. The referral called for work of the same general type which claimant had…