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to save the product of this Convention.

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It became obvious to me that these differences

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in philosophy were not a mere matter of words, but were a

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matter of great feeling, intense feeling, but complete

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sincerity.

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I wish it had been possible that the debates on

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this issue could have been avoided. At the same time I

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think they have done a tremendous amount of good because

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the people will know what the issue is, the people will

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know what the debates have been because all of the discussio

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has taken place in the open on this very floor in the full

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light of not only the press but public visitors in the

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galleries.

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It has become entirely clear and beyond question

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that practically every delegate supports the general

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principle underlying the proposed Section 1.17 and that

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delegates do not dispute the right of labor to organize

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and to collectively bargain, but that the division occurred

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on the question of whether the regulation not only of the

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right to bargain but of the right not to bargain collectivel

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should be worked out in convention or in the legislative