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the past fifteen days. One is the complete
and utter sincerity of delegates to each
side of this question in the justness, the
rightness, and the correctness of their own
position.
And the other was the complete sin-
cerity and dedication of both sides in this
dispute to do nothing that would jeopardize
the work of this Convention and their feel-
ing that in persisting in their efforts it was
necessary to save the product of this Con-
vention. It became obvious to me that these
differences in philosophy were not a mere
matter of words, but were a matter of
great feeling, intense feeling, but complete
sincerity.
It wish it had been possible that the de-
bates on this issue could have been avoided.
At the same time I think they have done
a tremendous amount of good because the
people will know what the issue is, the
people will know what the debates have
been because all of the discussion has taken
place in the open on this very floor in the
full light of not only the press but public
visitors in the galleries.
It has become entirely clear and beyond
question that practically every delegate
supports the general principle underlying
the proposed section 1.17 and that delegates
do not dispute the right of labor to or-
ganize and to collectively bargain, but that
the division occurred on the question of
whether the regulation not only of the right
to bargain but of the right not to bargain
collectively should be worked out in Con-
vention or in the legislative halls. We are
able to go forward today and tomorrow
and conclude our business and draft a con-
stitution of which I am sure the State of
Maryland will be proud.
I am sorry that I personally was not
able, I did not have the capacity, the wis-
dom, to be able to work out a solution, but
I have never been more proud of this Con-
vention then I am at the moment and I
applaud the efforts of all the delegates to
enable us to go forward at this time.
(The Convention rose and applauded.)
THE PRESIDENT: Mr. Clerk, you have
Resolution No. 28.
Mr. Clerk, will you please read the
resolution?
READING CLERK: Resolution No. 28
by Committee on Style, Drafting and Ar-
rangement, a resolution concerning capital-
ization of words in the proposed new
Constitution.
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"A RESOLUTION concerning capitaliza-
tion of words in the proposed new Con-
stitution.
"WHEREAS, the Committee on Style,
Drafting and Arrangement deems it desir-
able and appropriate that a uniform system
of capitalization be used throughout the
text of the proposed new Constitution; and
"WHEREAS, the Committee on Stylo,
Drafting and Arrangement suggests to the
Convention the following rules of capitali-
zation; now therefore be it
"RESOLVED, By the Constitutional Con-
vention of Maryland that:
"1) when the names of institutions are
used as nouns they shall be cap-
italized;
"2) when the word "State" is used as a
noun is shall be capitalized;
"3) when officers of the State are re-
ferred to they shall not be capi-
talized;
"4) when the words "Maryland", "United
States", "Constitution" are used they
shall be capitalized; and
"5) when any reference to the deity is
made it shall be capitalized; and be
is further
"RESOLVED, that the Committee on
Style, Drafting and Arrangement be in-
structed to follow these rules in its prep-
aration of the final draft of the Consti-
tution."
THE PRESIDENT: The Chair would
like to act on Resolution No. 28 at this
time. It calls on Delegate Penniman,
Chairman of the Committee.
DELEGATE PENNIMAN: This is
simply to change what had been originally
a policy to capitalize some of the offices
and in the last few days it became clear
that it would be simpler both here and in
the transitory provisions to maintain a
policy of lower case for all except the
offices or institutions of the State, the
deity, the State itself, and return all the
others in lower case. This will save us the
problem of bringing it up in instance after
instance noting we have reduced this
capital letter to a lower case if we can
get this accepted.
THE PRESIDENT: Any questions of
the Committee Chairman?
Are you ready for the question?
(Call for the question.)
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