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DELEGATE BOTHE; It would pCT»it police depart-
ments to organize.
It would necesBarily, it tf—M not permit them to
go beyond the point of organizing and bargaining collectively
in the event that there were no aucee»aful nagotiations,
it would not go to any right to diarupt the activities
of the policemen and I think that ia my answer, yes.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delqat Wagandt.
DELEGATE WAGANDT: In other words, the General
Assembly could pass a law which would prohibit striking of
policemen?
DELEGATE BOTHE: Oh, yaa, if otherviae consti-
tutional. I am not an authority on the eonstitutionality
of labor injunctions, although I realize and I think we
all know that there are situations in which the security and
welfare of the State would be imperiled by disruption of
work in which injunction is a proper remedy and one which
this right would not preclude.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Wagandt.
DELEGATE WAGANDT; Do you know what the attitude
of the Police Commissioner of Baltimore City is on the issue