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CHAPTER VIII.

DISTRICUTION OF RELIEF FUNDS.

Article 31. All such unemployed workers and employees as ar defined in Article 3 who have more than 12 years of working experience, and have not yet taken part in relief engineering work or self-help production schemes are entitled to relief allowances classified in Article 35 below.

Article 32. The following categories of unemployed workers are not entitled to relief allowances:

(a) Those who are still receiving pay-off bonuses which are being paid over a period agreed upon at the time of disengagement;

(b) Those who themselves, or whose family dependants, have other sources of income which can maintain them;

tions;

(c) Those who are receiving relief from other organisa-

(a) Those who have returned to their native countryside and. come back to the city especially to obtain relief allowances.

(e) Those who have obtained retirement or disability payments;

(f) Those who do not fulfill the conditions mentioned ir Article 31.

Article 33. The payment of relief allowances. shall be suspe under any of the following conditions:-

(a) If an unemployed worker has been placed by the Labon Bureau, or if he has found a job himself, or if his factory resumes operation. In these cases relief allowances shall be paid up to the day his new work begins;

(b) If an unemployed worker takes part in relier engineering work or decides to return to his native countrysiu. to take up production work. In these cases relief allowances shall be paid up to the day the work begins;

(c) If an unemployed worker rejects without good reason an opportunity to resume employment. In this case relief allowances shall be stopped;

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(a) If an unemployed worker rejects without good reason opportunity to take part in relief engineering work or to return to his native countryside to take up production work; or if he withdraws half-way after committing himself to either. In these cases relief allowances shall be stopped.

Article 34. Any persons drawing relief allowances by fraud or other illegal means shall be handed over to judicial organisa- tions for punishment.

Article 35. Relief allowances are divided into the following grades:

(a) Unemployed workers shall be given 45-90 catties of the local staple food per month, the exact amount to be decided by trade union foundation organisations accoding to the circums- tances of each worker, and to be approved by the Kelief Administration;

(b) Unemployed apprentices shall be given 30 catties per month;