Fort Smith Chair Company v. Laney

Ed. F. MoFaddin, Associate Justice.

This is an unemployment compensation case -, 1 and the employer is resisting the claims of three employees, Ballard, Wilson, and Rhodes, who worked at the Fort Smith Chair Company. On account of lack of business the three were temporarily laid off from work some time prior to May 1961. Such was their status on May 31, 1961, when a labor dispute arose between the employer and the workers, who were members of United Furniture Workers of America. A strike 2 went into effect on that date, with picket lines established.

On June 13, 1961 Fort Smith Chair Company…