Sweeney Unemployment Compensation Case

Opinion by

Rhodes, P. J.,

The question raised by this appeal in an unemployment compensation case is whether claimant and 144 others, similarly situated, were disqualified to receive unemployment compensation benefits for the weeks involved because of their refusal, without good cause, to accept suitable work. Claimants were found ineli*245gible to receive benefits for the claim weeks following their refusal to accept offered employment.

Section 402 (a) of the Unemployment Compensation Law of 1936, as amended, 43 PS §802 (a), provides: “An employe shall be ineligible for compensation for any week —…