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 [56 STAT. PUBLIC LAWS--CH. 479-JULY 2, 1942 employment on any such project whose work habits are such or work record shows that he is incapable of performing satisfactorily the work to which he may be assigned on the project. Removal or nonem- (d) There shall be removed from employment on Work Projects ledrelief workers. Administration projects all relief workers whose needs for employ- ment have not been certified by, and except as provided in section 9 (a) or in section 10 (b), no relief worker shall be employed on such projects until after his need for employment has been certified by (a) a local public certifying agency or (b) the Work Projects Adminis- tration where no such agency exists or where the Work Projects Administration certifies by reason of its refusal to accept certification by local public agencies. Blind persons. (e) No blind person receiving aid under the Social Security Act, as amended, shall be prohibited from temporarily relinquishing such aid to accept employment on a Work Projects Administration project. Restriction on em- (f) No alien, no Communist, and no member of any Nazi bund ployment of aliens, li ommunists, etc. organization shall be given employment or continued in employment on any work project prosecuted under the appropriations contained in this joint resolution and no part of the money appropriated in this joint resolution shall be available to pay any person who has not made or who does not make affidavit as to United States citizenship and to the effect that he is not a Communist and not a member of any Nazi bund organization, such affidavit to be considered prima facie evidence of such citizenship, and that he is not a Communist, and not a member of any Nazi bund organization. tioiofdrelief vesti-l (g) The Commissioner shall cause a periodic investigation to be eliminations. made of the rolls of certified employees on work projects, and shall eliminate from the rolls those not in actual need, such investigation to be made so that each case is investigated at least once in every twelve months. Refusal of private, SEC. 10. (a) No person in need who refuses a bona fide offer of offer. private or other public employment under reasonable working condi- tions which pays the prevailing wage for such work in the community where he resides and who is capable of performing such work shall be employed or retained in employment on work projects under the funds appropriated in this joint resolution for the period such private or other public employment would be available. lRestoraton of ew (b) Any person who takes such employment shall at the expiration VPA. thereof be entitled to immediate reemployment with the Work Proj- ects Administration if he is still in need and if he has lost such employment through no fault of his own, and if he has first drawn all the benefits of unemployment compensation that shall have accrued to him during his term in private employment and which are available to him. Oathof ofice. SEC. 11. (a) No person shall be employed or retained in employment in any administrative position, or in any supervisory position on any project, under the appropriations in this joint resolution unless such person has previously subscribed or before engaging in such employ- ment subscribes to the following oath: "I, A B, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office (or employment) on which I am about to enter (or which I now occupy). So help me God." Persons advocating o a overthrow ot U.. N part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall be Government. used to pay the salary or wages of any person who advocates, or who is a member of an organization that advocates the overthrow 640

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