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the right to organize and bargain collectively?
DELEGATE BOTHE: Of course not.
I might say, I thought you were going to ask
me a slightly different question, which I would like to
answer. (Laughter)
As for the right being denied by absence of
law, it occurs all the time. The most recent situation,
I have a clipping here that I took out of the paper a few
days ago involving the employees at the Church-Home Hospital
in Baltimore who struck because they could get no recog-
nition from the management of that institution, could not evsn
get to talk, so they went out on strike and had to come
crawling back because there was no redress.
I might say that it is my understanding that
their strike had nothing to do with a desire to -- it was not
over wages but over grievance procedure.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Weidemeyer.
DELEGATE WEIDEMEYER: Delegate Bothe, isn't
it true that the word "employees in line 8 of your amendment
is ail-irc-luGi"" so If it were placed in the Constitution,
it would prohibit the legislature from making any