Matter of Mazzarella v. Kern

By legislative mandate every public agency acquiring transit facilities from private corporations must continue to employ all employees of such corporations (except those officers deemed unnecessary), “ who shall have been in the employ of said corporation for one year or more immediately prior to such acquisition and who shall be citizens or shall have filed declarations of intention to become citizens heretofore or within six months after this act takes effect,” viz., June 19,1939. (L. 1939, ch. 927, § 2, otherwise known as the Wicks Act.) The declared purpose of the act is to continue in…