Keisling Unemployment Compensation Case

Opinion by

Woodside, J.,

The claimant in this unemployment compensation case was denied benefits by the bureau, the referee and the board because his unemployment was due to voluntarily leaving work without cause of a necessitous and compelling nature. See §402(b)(1) of the Unemployment Compensation Law, 43 P.S. §802(b) (1). He contends that he did not voluntarily leave work, and that *347even if he did, it was with cause of a necessitous and compelling nature.

The claimant was hired by the Benefit Association of Railway Employees as a manager trainee in August of 1959 and was assigned to the…