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PROVISIONAL MEASURES FOR THE RELIEF OF UNEMPLOYED WORKERS.

The text of the Provisional Measures for the Relief of Unemployed Workers, which was ratified by the State Adminis- tration Council on 17th June, 1950, is as follows:-

CHAPTER I..

GENERAL.

Article I. The present Measures are promulgated with a view to alleviating distress in the lives of unemployed workers and to enabling them gradually to resume employment or to change their occupations.

Article 2. The principal way of administering relief is to find work for the unemployed. Supplementary ways include enabling them to help themselves through production, training them for a new occupation, helping them to go to their native places to do production work, giving them relief allowances,etc.

Article 3. In principle, only those workers and employees in national and private industrial and commercial enterprises, or in port transport work, or in cultural, art and educational establishments, who lost their employment after liberation, are unemployed and have no sources of income, are entitled to relief benefits. Those who were unemployed before liberation and are in special difficulties must first apply to the local Committee for the Relief of Unemployed Workers for approval if they want to obtain relief benefits.

CHAPTER II. ORGANISATION OF THE EXECUTIVE BODY.

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Article 4. All cities sponsoring relief work shall set up a Committee for the Relief of Unemployed Workers under the municipal government. The duties of the, Committee are to plan and direct all relief measures. It will consist of representa- tives appointed by the municipal government from the Labour

the Bureau, the Bureau of Reconstruction or Public Works, Bureau of Civil Affairs, the Bureau of Public Peace, the Trade Union Council, the Joint Association of Industry and Commerce, and other interested bodies. The Chairman of the Committee shall be the Mayor or the Deputy-chairman shall be appointed by the municipal government.

Article 5. Under the Committee for the Relief of Unemployed Workers, there shall be set up a Relief Administration which shall be the executive body for all relief work. The organisɛ- tion of Relief administration shall be as follows:

(a) The Secretariat will take charge of all

routine work;

(b) The Registration Section will take charge of

the registration and examination of unemployed workers;

(c) The "Work in Lieu of Relief" Section will find work for the unemployed in lieu of giving them relief allowances, and will arrange various employment schemes;

(a) The Relief Section will take charge of the

examination and approval of applications, and distribution of relief allowances;

(e) The Help and Guidance Section will be respon- sible for enabling the unemployed to help themselves through production; sending them to their native places; and training them for a new occupation.