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consumer protection by Delegate Freed-
lander.
THE PRESIDENT: The memorandum
will be received and distributed.
Are there any committee recommenda-
tions or reports?
THE CHIEF CLERK: No.
THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Gallagher
handed me a letter he received from Dele-
gate Bushong. I will read parts of it.
"I am still being checked out here at
the hospital and so far they have found
out that I have an underactive thyroid,
and I think it is being taken care of. The
main thing is that I was losing weight and
this is now all right. I expect to be out of
here sometime this week. I will get down
there 'as soon as I can." Signed, "Stuart
Bushong."
The Chair recognizes Delegate Ulrich.
DELEGATE ULRICH: On behalf of
Delegates Anderson, Neilson, and myself,
we would like to welcome in the balcony
111 students from the North Glen Ele-
mentary School, their teachers, Mrs. Per-
kins, Mrs. Pearson, Mrs. Harris and Mr.
Muntain. I would like the Convention to
welcome them at this time.
THE PRESIDENT: Delighted to have
them.
(Applause.)
Item 7 on the agenda, second reading of
committee recommendations or reports, and
Item 9 on the agenda which is considera-
tion of report by the Committee of the
Whole, will be taken up this afternoon
after the lunch recess.
The Chair recognizes Delegate Powers.
DELEGATE POWERS: Mr. President,
I move the Convention resolve itself into a
Committee of the Whole for the purpose
of considering the general orders of the
day.
(The motion was duly seconded.)
THE PRESIDENT: All those in favor
signify by saying Aye; contrary, No. The
Ayes have it. It is so ordered.
(Whereupon, at 10:20 A.M., the Conven-
tion resolved itself into the Committee of
the Whole.)
(The mace was removed by the Sergeant-
at-Arms.)
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COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE
DECEMBER 13, 1967— 10 :20 A.M.
PRESIDENT H. VERNON ENEY,
PRESIDING
THE CHAIRMAN: The Committee of
the Whole will please come to order.
The Committee of the Whole will resume
consideration of Committee Recommenda-
tion R&P-1 under Debate Schedule 10.
We had concluded consideration of Com-
mittee Recommendation R&P-1 section by
section and are now ready for considera-
tion of Minority Report R&P 1(B).
The Chair recognizes Delegate Bothe to
present the minority report.
DELEGATE BOTHE: Ladies and gen-
tlemen of the Committee of the Whole.
R&P 1(B), which I am presenting here
today is a report of a near majority of
the Committee on Personal Rights and the
Preamble advocating that the new consti-
tution contain a provision for the right to
organize and bargain collectively.
We of the minority feel that this right
is as fundamental, as necessary, as any
of those contained in the Declaration of
Rights which we have for the most part
adopted in this Convention; that it is co-
extensive and correlated with the rights
of free speech and assembly; and that it is
just as necessary and more so today than
the prohibitions in our Constitution writ-
ten 100 years ago against involuntary
servitude and other direct means of keep-
ing people under the domination of others.
We have, during the past weeks, spoken
of many things which belong in or should
be out of a constitution. At this juncture
in our deliberations, although I never had
any doubts as to the appropriateness of
a right in the constitution to organize and
bargain collectively, we have in the new
constitution given space to the spirit of
conservation; we have mandated that the
consumers shall be protected against un-
fair business practices; we have decreed
that elected officials be honest; we have
been assured that farmers will not be dis-
possessed of their lands by unfair taxa-
tion; and yesterday we determined that
while people may be incarcerated pending
trial, their property must be compensated
for when it is damaged.
By comparison, the right to organize
and bargain collectively is a most real and
most operative provision in which this
constitution can accomplish something for
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