McGann Unemployment Compensation Case

Opinion by

Reno, J.,

Appellant is a member and the president of Local 1242, Steamship Clerks and Checkers, International Longshoremen’s Associátion, and had been employed for three months as a checker and clerk by J. A. McCarthy Company. He is one of over 2400 claimants who are members of various unions of the Longshoremen’s Association. They had been employed by various steamship and stevedoring companies along the Philadelphia waterfront.

A labor dispute arose between the steamship companies on one side and the M.arine Engineers Beneficial xlssociation and the Masters, Mates and Pilots Union…