Bernotas Unemployment Compensation Case

Opinion by

Ross, J.,

In this unemployment compensation case the compensation authorities denied benefits to claimant, John Bernotas, under section 401(d) of the Unemployment Compensation Law, 43 PS sec. 801(d), and from that decision denying benefits claimant appealed to this Court. ,

The claimant, 61 years of age, for a number of years prior had been employed as a miner by the Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Company but left that employment on March 31, 1952 because of lack of work of the kind that he was able to perform. He testified: “I wasn’t able to do the work I was doing. I ask for…