1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21

goes to something else,
What the Chairman asked me was whether the
General Assembly would have to include all employees,
whatever they may be, as determined by the courts, in
asking legislation to implement this provision.
The answer is, and I will give you a concrete
example, they could pass a law setting up machinery for
organization of employees of retail stores. That would
not apply to any other people seeking to organize; say,
something like the labor acts, providing that you people
have an election, have a representative chosen, and so
forth.
On the other hand, it would say employees of
hospitals weren't covered. This is all right. The
General Assembly is going to have a great deal of latti-
tude in passing laws to carry out the principle that the
Constitution will contain.
The only thing the General Assembly will not be
able to do is to pass a law saying that any employee, and
again the word "employee" is going to have to be subject
to some court interpretation, though I think in the