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what paraphrases what I have already ex-
pressed. If there is any conflict between
the statement —
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Darby.
DELEGATE DARBY: I am confused.
Are you saying that if a group as such
has the right to organize and bargain col-
lectively that the General Assembly can
exempt let us say, their remedy from abuse
by the employer? Could they, for example,
take the attorney general, the assistant
attorney general, the police, and say that
one of these groups could not strike as
such, or does not have as many remedies
against the employer as other groups
might?
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Bothe.
DELEGATE BOTHE: Delegate Darby,
I would stay away from the example of the
attorney general because that 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 pro-
vision.
The answer is, and I will give you a
concrete example, they could pass a law
setting up machinery for the organization
of employees of retail stores. That would
not apply to any other people seeking to
organize. It could be something like the
labor acts, providing that people have an
election, have a representative chosen, and
so forth.
On the other hand, it would say em-
ployees of hospitals were not covered. This
is all right. The General Assembly is go-
ing to have a great deal of latitude in
passing laws to carry out the principles
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 999 cases out of thousand, they
know who employees are — can lose his
right by legislation.
I do not know if that helps you.
THE CHAIRMAN: Apparently there
are no further questions. The pages have
already distributed Amendment L. It will
be Amendment No. 21.
Delegate Willis.
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DELEGATE WILLIS: Mr. Chairman,
I rise on a point of personal privilege. I
would like to announce the presence in the
balcony at the rear of the chamber of
three very prominent Harford County citi-
zens: Mr. Benton Gross, Mr. H. Morrison
Carroll, and Mr. C. Milton Wright. Mr. C.
Milton Wright, retired, was Superintendent
of Schools in 1945. He served thirty years
in that position. He spent a lifetime in
education.
Since that time, he has been very busy
and has coming off the press this week a
new book, The History of Harford County.
I would appreciate the Committee of the
Whole joining me in making these citizens
welcome.
(Applause.)
THE CHAIRMAN: The Clerk will read
Amendment No. 21.
READING CLERK: Amendment No. 21
to accompany Minority Report R&P-1(B)
to Committee Recommendation R&P-1, by
Delegates Bennett, Bothe, Dabrowski,
Hardwicke, Kosakowski, Mitchell, L. Tay-
lor, and Willoner:
On page 4, following line 23 of section
9, Limitations on State Action, add this
new section :
"Section ——— . Right to Organize and
Bargain Collectively.
"Employees shall have the right to or-
ganize and bargain collectively through
representatives of their own choosing."
THE CHAIRMAN: The amendment has
been seconded. We are in a period of con-
trolled debate, fifteen minutes each, con-
trolled by Delegates Bothe and Kiefer.
The Chair recognizes Delegate Bothe.
DELEGATE BOTHE: Mr. Chairman,—
THE CHAIRMAN: For what purpose
does Delegate Pullen rise?
DELEGATE PULLEN: Mr. Chairman,
a very personal one. Mr. Wright has been
a friend of mine for forty years and one
of my colleagues, and one of the great men
in education in Maryland, and I would feel
remiss if I did not add my word of wel-
come to him today.
(Applause.)
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Bothe.
DELEGATE BOTHE: I yield three min-
utes to Delegate Wheatley.
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