COMMITTEE ON THE EXECUTIVE, MILITIA AND CIVIL OFFICERS RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS
STATE OF NEW JERSEY CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION OF 1947
COMMITTEE ON THE EXECUTIVE, MILITIA AND CIVIL OFFICERS
Thursday, June 26, 1947
(Morning session)
(The session began at 10:15 A.M.)
PRESENT: Barton, Barus, Eggers, Farley, Miller, S., Jr., Smith, J. S., Van Alstyne, Walton and Young.
Chairman David Van Alstyne, Jr., presided.
CHAIRMAN DAVID VAN ALSTYNE, JR.: The meeting will please come to order.
This is a public hearing called by the Executive Committee of the Constitutional Convention on the Executive Section that has been assigned to us. I might say to those who are interested that we will continue the public hearing on this same section, if necessary, at 11 o’clock Tuesday morning, and then go on from there to have a public hearing with respect to the civil officers and military sections.
I recognize that there are two organizations here that would like to speak today: The League of Women Voters. … The League would like to wait, I understand. … The Committee on Constitutional Revision is here and if they would like to speak now, we would be glad to hear from them.
MR. CHARLES R. ERDMAN, JR.: Senator Van Alstyne and members of the Committee on the Executive:
The Committee on Constitutional Revision is composed of the New Jersey State Federation of Labor, the New Jersey State Federation of Women’s Clubs, New Jersey Association of Real Estate Boards, New Jersey Taxpayers Association, the National Council of Jewish Women, Consumers’ League of New Jersey, American Association of University Women, New Jersey Association of Colored Women’s Clubs, New Jersey League of Women Voters, Congress of Industrial Organizations, and New Jersey League of Women Shoppers. These are the constituent organizations. Of course, in addition to those there are a number, such as myself, who have no particular affiliation with these organizations but are members of the committee, and of course all of us are vitally interested in proper constitutional revision.
I might say at this point, as we sit around this ring, that it is
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