Freddie D. ROBINSON Et Al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. UNION CARBIDE CORPORATION, Etc., Defendant-Appellee

INGRAHAM, Circuit Judge:

Nine blacks (appellants) filed a civil rights action against Union Carbide Corporation, charging it with various discriminatory employment practices perpetrated at the Chickasaw, Alabama plant. On appellants’ motion the district court certified the case as a class action filed in behalf of:

Those black job applicants who had an outstanding job application at the time of the commencement of this cause and those black job applicants who have filed job applications since the commencement of this cause and all future black job applicants, along with all current black…