Block Coal & Coke Co. v. United Mine Workers

In keeping with a commendable general policy of the times to provide more stable conditions of social security, the Tennessee Legislature provided a system of unemployment compensation benefits by the passage of Chapter No. 1, Public Acts of 1936, First Extraordinary Session, amended by Chapter No. 128, Public Acts of 1937, and Chapter No. 131, Public Acts of 1939, which is known as the Unemployment Compensation Law. The economic need for this legislation was set forth and declared in Section 2 of the Act to provide against “Involuntary unemployment,” the general welfare requiring the…