WM. PRESTON LANE, JR., GOVERNOR. 1919

Resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the
Governor be and he is hereby requested to appoint a com-
mittee of twelve persons, four of whom will represent man-
agement, four of whom will represent labor, and four of
whom will represent vocational education, which said com-
mittee shall thoroughly study the program of apprentice
training in the State of Maryland, and shall submit its re-
port and recommendations to the Legislative Council by
October 1, 1949, for a sound program of apprentice training
for the youth of the State.

Approved May 6, 1949.

NO. 26

(Senate Joint Resolution 23)

Joint Resolution requesting the Governor of Maryland to
appoint a Commission to study the advisability of the State
of Maryland urging the United States to take the initiative
in strengthening the United Nations Organization.

WHEREAS,, many of the most pressing problems in Maryland
and America today result from the critical world situation
in which the fear of war is ever present so that our people
and the peoples of other states and nations have a sense of
insecurity; and

WHEREAS, this insecurity is caused by the lack of effective
international law to govern the nations of the world which,
like individuals, must have some legal restraint in order to
maintain harmonious relations in the world community; and

WHEREAS, our own history shows various methods of deal-
ing with the problems as follows:

1. At the time of the Revolutionary War, the States formed
an alliance for the prosecution of the war under the Articles
of Confederation which proved to be inadequate because, like
the present United Nations structure, it had no power to be
effective and so could not establish any form of interstate
law, being dependent entirely upon the whim of each indi-
vidual colony.

2. After the Revolution, the states abandoned the Articles
of Confederation in order to form a more perfect union under
a constitutional Federal Government with power to establish