Local No. 658, Boot & Shoe Workers Union v. Brown Shoe Co.

Appellee, a local union of the Boot and Shoe Workers Union, filed application for unemployment compensation with the Director of Labor on behalf of certain of its members who were employees of appellant, the Brown Shoe Company, a corporation. The capacity of the union as agent, to prosecute the claim, is not objected to by appellant. The loss of time for which compensation was claimed was from February 26, 1946, to March 1, 1946, both dates inclusive.

The claims deputy of the Illinois Department of Labor, who made the initial investigation, found that the stoppage of work on the part of the…