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I know of no policemen strikes. Perhaps you
do but I do not. I understand that all contracts reached
with police contain no strike clauses and this is true
also of all the essential fields.
There has been, as I think I stated earlier, no
i nstance where an organized public employees group struck—
the instances where strikes occur is where they are
striking in order to get what this Constitional provision
would guarantee to them.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Bennett.
DELEGATE BENNETT: Delegate Bothe, I would like
to go back over this question a little further where
you indicated that the General Assembly may pass any
sort of legislation concenring employees and their right
to organize, their wage standards' and so on.
Now, isn't it true throughout the whole history
of labor legislation that the courts have been very
conservative in their view of legislation without some
Constitutional provision?
For example, isn't it true that the workmen's
compensation acts have been struck down time after time