STATE OF NEW JERSEY CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION OF 1947
COMMITTEE ON RIGHTS, PRIVILEGES, AMENDMENTS AND MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
Tuesday August 5, 1947 (Afternoon session)
(The session began at 2:00 P. M.)
PRESENT: Carey, Delaney, Ferry, Glass, Katzenbach, Park, Pursel, Randolph, Schenk, Stanger and Taylor.
Chairman John F. Schenk presided.
CHAIRMAN JOHN F. SCHENK: A quorum being present, we will now continue the public hearing of the Committee on Rights, Privileges, Amendments and Miscellaneous Provisions. At this time I would like to call on Mr. Thomas Parsonnet, if he is ready to be heard. Mr. Parsonnet.
MR. THOMAS PARSONNET: Mr. Chairman, members of the Committee:
As all of you are aware, the State Federation of Labor, on the convening of this Convention, presented to the Convention and to each of its delegates a statement of its position with respect to its beliefs as to proposed changes in the Constitution.1 This brief appears in the Appendix to these Committee Proceedings. It was the impression of the State Federation of Labor that the Convention would accept this brief as well as all the other briefs presented, and would give serious and sincere effort to the preparation of a Constitution which would meet the needs of the times. It was the feeling that the amplification of our brief by oral testimony should not necessarily be required because of the fact that our written brief was complete and full in itself and was self-explanatory. The officers of the Federation felt it was unnecessary to burden the Committee with oral testimony which would merely be a repetition of our brief, and felt that it would be best to wait and see what kind of document came from the Convention. We shall have a convention of the State Federation of Labor in September of this year and it was our intention to present to that convention the document as prepared by the Convention and to seek the instructions of the labor movement as a whole in the State in respect to our attitude as to the final approval or disapproval.
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