Bankston Creek Collieries, Inc. v. Gordon

This case involves a claim for unemployment compensation by the employees of Mines 4, 5, 6, 7 and 16 of the Bankston Creek Collieries, Inc., for time unemployed from September 18, 1944, to October 7, 1944. The claim is made by Local Unions Nos. 118, 165, 152, 115 and 170, Progressive Mine Workers of America, on behalf of their members, employees of the appellee, and certain individual employees, all.of whom will be designated appellants.

The claim involves over six hundred men, and was first heard by a deputy.of the Illinois Division of Placement and Unemployment Compensation on a demand for…