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share the burdens of collective bargaining we are not
reaching that point in this proposal at all.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Hostetter.
DELEGATE HOSTETTER: Several questions have already
been asked with respect to this provision and all of them
hve been answered in this manner, that they could be
handled legislatively. Could not this particular proposal
be handled in the same manner, by the legislature?
DELEGATE BOTHE: Oh, yes, there is no question bul:
that the legislature with its plenary powers could both
grant this right and implement it as I hope it will by
statute.
The question, however, is that such things have
not happened. We have not had a new constitution in
one hundred years. In the interim, a great many states
who have rewritten their constitutions to meet new
and emerging needs and situations have felt it advisable to
accord this right through the Consititution. And there
is no right which we have adopted in this committee which
could not, as well, be assured by statute.
However, there are certain ones which we feel