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know if you would call that a right. The right is to
do something affirmative. He would have to keep his mouth
shut unless he had the right to open it.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Hostetter.
DELEGATE HOSTETTER: Article VI of the Federal
Contitution entitles a person to testify in his own
behalf but Article V of the present Constitution permits
him to remain silent.
Getting back to the amendment with respect to
the joining, would not a counter right be involved in
organizing and bargaining, not to organize and bargain as
a member or as a non-member?
DELEGATE BOTHE: You call it a right; I don't.
I I think that situation is implicit. We are not here
trying to deal with the question of whether somebody does or
does not have to join a labor organization. We are merely
giving him the vehicle through which he can organize and
through which he can expect a reception when he can get
his fellow employees to cooperate with him. As to what
'' happens in the event that the employer recognizes him and
his co-workers and those co-workers desire everyone to