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and their omission here ia not intended as an expircsiBio
of opposition to their ioclusipn on substantive policy
grounds.
we still do need a right to organize and
bargain collectively in the basic law of the State. We need
it because nearly half 4 million of our working citizens
do not today have any protecition whatever in this regard.
The National Labor Relations Act to which I
earlier referred covers only those people in interstate
coimnerce and only those people in interstate conferee vho are
employed by employers of some sie and aubstance.
In addition the Act excludes people working for
charitable institutions, particularly hospitals and it dops
not include any or practically no employees in the service
trades such as waiters, waitresses and parking lot attendants,
This group adds up to five, or nearly five hundred thousand
people in this State and it is not coincidental, I submit,
that this identical group are the ones who according to
federal statistics are earning less than the minimum wage.
Now, the statement of a right to organize and
bargain collectively which we ask be included in the new