Case Name: Staber Unemployment Compensation Case
Court: Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
Decision Date: 1958-12-11
Citations: 188 Pa. Super. 285
Docket Number: Appeal, No. 88
Parties: Staber Unemployment Compensation Case.
Judges: Before Rhodes, P. J., ITirt, Gunther, Wright, Woodside, Ervin, and Watkins, JJ.
Reporter: Pennsylvania Superior Court Reports
Volume: 188
Pages: 285–287

Head Matter:
Staber Unemployment Compensation Case.
December 11, 1958:
Argued April 15, 1958.
Before Rhodes, P. J., ITirt, Gunther, Wright, Woodside, Ervin, and Watkins, JJ.
Frank J. Donner, with Mm Robert Z. Lewis, David Cohen, and Donner, Kinoy & Perlin, for appellant.
Thomas D. McBride, Attorney General, and Sydney Reuben, Assistant Attorney General, with them Harry J. Rubin, Deputy Attorney General, for appellee.

Opinion:
Opinion by
Woodside, J.,
Alexander Staber was discharged by his employer, the General Electric Company, in Erie, and was denied unemployment compensation by the bureau, referee and board on the ground that his unemployment was the result of willful misconduct connected with his work. See Section 402(e) of the Unemployment Compensation Law of 1936, as amended, 43 PS §802-(e).
The board found that the claimant was discharged because he was identified as a Communist and a member of the Steel Commission and the Electrical Commission of the Communist Party.
The evidence taken in this case by the compensation authorities was meager. We cannot determine from the record before us whether this appeal is governed by our decision in the Ault Unemployment Compensation Case, 188 Pa. Superior Ct. 260, 146 A. 2d 729. We are, therefore, of the opinion that we should follow the procedure that we followed in the Panzino and Fitzpatrick Unemployment Compensation cases and remand this case to the board for the taking of additional testimony, and for further consideration in the light of what was said in the above eases.
The case is remanded to the Unemployment Compensation Board of Review with instructions to proceed in a manner not inconsistent with this opinion.