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in 1945 and re-issued through to 1959, contains a right
to organize, I won't read it all to you, but it is very
similar to the proposal which we make to you today.
The present model State Constitution contains
no such provision; however, I wpuld like to read to you the
reasons the authors give for not reconwding the incinsipn
of the right to organize and bargain collectively in the cur-
rent Constitution, because I think it will be of great
interest to the people of thip committee who are having
one hundred years to catch up with in preparing this new
Constitution.
The National Municipal league says that certain
other rights, after having discussed a number of other thing?
they feel belong in or out of a Constitution, say,
"Certain other rights, such as, for instance, the right
to bargain collectively, or the provision tha labor is
not a commodity were not included because under present
Constitutions they appeared to need no separate Constitutional
reflection."
it is recognized, however, that in some juris-
dictions there may be need for inclusion of such provisions