Mehlbaum Unemployment Compensation Case

Opinion by

Wright, J.,

John C. Mehlbaum and ninety-two other individuals (hereinafter referred to as the claimants) were production workers and employes of the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company, Pottsville (hereinafter referred to as the employer), which operates collieries at and known as Alaska, Locust Gap and Reliance, Pennsylvania. Claimants were all members of the United Mine Workers of America (hereinafter referred to as the union), which organization is their exclusive representative for the purposes of collective bargaining. The terms and conditions of employment were…