Claim of McDowell v. Flatbush Congregational Church

This award is about tobe affirmed on the grounds that the State Industrial Board has found on sufficient evidence that the claimant was “ employed as an assistant housekeeper ” by the church, and that her employment was of the same class as that regularly pursued by her in a public high school in New York city. I have failed to find the slightest warrant in claimant’s testimony for classifying her work as housekeeping, even if housekeepers were employed in churches and public schools. The real question here, however, is wage rate.

In her regular occupation the claimant was employed as a…