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Each Relief Administration shall have a chief and one or two deputy-chiefs, to be appointed by the municipal govern- ment. Heads of Sections shall be appointed by the Committee for the Relief of Unemployed Workers. Staff members shall be drawn from related organisations, and if there are not enough priority should be given to (registered) unemployed persons.

CHAPTER III. RELIEF FUNDS.

Article 6. The sources of relief funds shall be as

follows:

(a) In all cities sponsoring relief, the administrative side or the employer in all national and private factories and workshops and commercial undertakings shall contribute every month towards relief funds a sum equivalent to one per cent of all payments made in respect of wages and emoluments. Workers and employees in the above-mentioned enterprises and in port transport work etc., shall also make a monthly contribution of one per cent of their total wages for the same purpose;

(b) Relief grants made by the Central and local People's Governments;

(c) Donations from various circles.

Article 7. The Safe Custody of Relief Funds.

(a) All relief funds shall be collected by and kept in local People's Banks;

(b) Relief foodstuffs shall be entrusted to the care of local National Foodstuffs Companies.

Article 8. The use and distribution of relief funds shall be determined by the Committee for the Relief of Unemployed Workers, and shall not be used for any purpose other than the relief of unemployed workers.

Article 9. Embezzlement cases discovered in the conduct of relief work shall be handed over to jucicial organs by the Committee for the Relief of Unemployed Workers.

CHAPTER IV.

REGISTRATION OF UNEMPLOYED WORKERS.

Article 10. All such unemployed persons as are defined in Article 3 may apply for registration. Those however who have returned to their native places to do production work or have found employment will not be considered.

Article 11. The registration of unemployed workers shall be entrusted by the Committee for the Relief of Unemployed Workers to the foundation organisations of the various industrial trade unions subordinate to the Trade Union Council. Where trade union foundation organisations have not been formed, registra- tion shall be handled directly by the industrial trade unions or the trade union council.

Article 12. An unemployed person shall produce the following documents when he applies for registration:

(a) Testimonial provided by the trade union organisation to which the applicant formerly belonged, or by the factory or commercial shop or school where he last worked. If an applicant has been out of employment too long and cannot secure a testi- monial from his trade union organisation or employer, he must secure two workers in employment to vouch for him;