Unemployment compensation — Employers' contributions — Rates — Charges against account — Valid payments of benefits — Unemployment resulting from industrial dispute — Constitutional law — Due process — Equal protection of the law — Local or special laws — Title of act — Unemployment Compensation Law — Fourteenth Amendment to Federal Constitution — Pennsylvania Constitution — Article I, § 9, Article III, § 7, Article IX, § 1, and Article III, § 3.
1. A valid payment of unemployment compensation benefits made pursuant to the provisions of § 402(d) of the Pennsylvania Unemployment Compensation Law, as amended by § 9 of the Act of May 29, 1945, P. L. 1145, to employes whose unemployment was due to their voluntary suspension of work in 1946 resulting from an industrial dispute at the establishment at which they were last employed, creates a valid charge against the account of the base year employer of such employes in the computation of the employer's contribution rates for the years 1947 and 1948. [575-92]
2. Such construction of the Unemployment Compensation Law does not violate either the Fourteenth Amendment to the Federal Constitution or § 9 of Article I, § 7 of Article III, or § 1 of Article IX of the Pennsylvania Constitution. [579-92]
3. The Unemployment Compensation Law, as amended by § 9 of the Act of 1945, as above construed, does not violate § 3 of Article III of the Pennsylvania Constitution (which provides that no bill shall be passed containing more than one subject, which shall be clearly expressed in its title). [579-92]
Mr. Justice CHIDSEY took no part in the consideration or decision of this case.
OPINION PER CURIAM, March 19, 1951:
The respective orders appealed from are affirmed on the opinion of Judge SMITH for the court below.
Orders affirmed.