Almada v. Admr, Unemployment Compensation

Beginning in March, 1948, the claimants (appellees) filed claims for unemployment benefits. In initial decisions by examiners of the unemployment compensation department, the claims were denied for the asserted reason that the unemployment was due to the existence of a labor dispute. Thereupon the claimants appealed to the unemployment compensation commission, first congressional district, and the commission, after hearings held in April and May of 1949, reversed the examiners’ decisions and held the claimants eligible for benefits. The commission found that the claimants’ unemployment was…