Blankenship v. Virginia Unemployment Compensation Commission

The jurisdiction of this court to hear this appeal is challenged. To determine that question, a brief review of the facts and proceedings is required.

In the year 1939, there was a general stoppage of work in many of the coal mines in the southwestern section of this State. Among the miners who became unemployed were McKinley Blankenship, Henry A. Dailey, J. A. Carpenter, Paul B. Sykes, Taylor Glover and Archie A. Haggy, the appellants here. The appellants and several thousand other unemployed miners filed their separate benefit claims with the Virginia Unemployment Compensation Commission.…