Vicente Galvan and Marcelino Torres v. Louis L. Levine, Industrial Commissioner of the State of New York,defendant-Appellee

FRIENDLY, Circuit Judge:

This action, under the Civil Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. § 1983, and its jurisdictional implementation, 28 U.S.C. § 1343(3), was initiated over three years ago in the District Court for the Southern District of New York by two Puerto Ricans who for many years had been employed in largely seasonal jobs in New York and who, on at least some occasions, had returned to Puerto Rico when without work here. They brought suit on behalf of themselves and all other persons similarly situated against the Industrial Commissioner of the State of New York, who had denied them and other…