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While recognizing that it; can be accused of
being claaa legislation, it coveira so significant a
portion of our society that I believe it has general
public application an therefore is not parochial or
individualized in the usual sense of the word.
Now, it seems to me that simply because the legis-
lature has not acquiesced in attempts to make this right
known in statutory form is no argument against it. Indeed,
it may be an argument for it.
I simply state that here is an opportunity to
put into the Constitution a right which seems to me to be
very significant for orderliness and for genuine oppor-
tunities for communication in our society as we know it
today.
It is, as I say, an unusal right in that it has
evolved from a crime to a right, or at least recogni-
tion as a crime, to recognition as a right. I don't think
we ought to distinguish our vote on this, as Chairman
Kiefer said, between pro-labor and anti-labor. I agree
with him in that respect.
I would rot hope anybody would vote simply with