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 62 STAT.] 80TH CONG. , 2D SESS.-CH. 655 -JUNE 25, 1948 maintenance, and extension of waterworks, sewers and pavements in the cities of Panama and Colon, to remain available until expended, the necessary portions of such sums as shall be paid during that fiscal year as water rentals or directly by the Government of Panama for such expenses. GENERAL PROVISIONS SEC. 2. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall be used directly or indirectly, except for temporary employment in case of emergency, for the payment of any civilian for services rendered by him on the Canal Zone while occupying a skilled, technical, clerical, administrative, executive, or supervisory position unless such person is a citizen of the United States of America or of the Republic of Panama: Provided, however, (1) That, notwithstanding the provision in the Act approved August 11, 1939 (53 Stat. 1409), limiting employ- ment in the above-mentioned positions to citizens of the United States from and after the date of the approval of said Act, citizens of Panama may be employed in such positions; (2) that at no time shall the num- ber of Panamanian citizens employed in the above-mentioned positions exceed the number of citizens of the United States so employed, if United States citizens are available in continental United States or on the Canal Zone; (3) that nothing in this Act shall prohibit the con- tinued employment of any person who shall have rendered fifteen or more years of faithful and honorable service on the Canal Zone; (4) that in the selection of personnel for skilled, technical, administrative, clerical, supervisory, or executive positions, the controlling factors in filling these positions shall be efficiency, experience, training, and edu- cation; (5) that all citizens of Panama and the United States render- ing skilled, technical, clerical, administrative, executive, or supervisory service on the Canal Zone under the terms of this Act (a) shall nor- mally be employed not more than forty hours per week, (b) may receive as compensation equal rates of pay based upon rates paid for similar employment in continental United States plus 25 per centum; (6) this entire section shall apply only to persons employed in skilled, technical, clerical, administrative, executive, or supervisory positions on the Canal Zone directly or indirectly by any branch of the United States Government or by any corporation or company whose stock is owned wholly or in part by the United States Government: Providedfurther, That the President may suspend from time to time in whole or in part compliance with this section in time of war or national emergency if he should deem such course to be in the public interest: Provided fwrther, That the President may, if he finds it necessary because of a shortage of housing, suspend, for the fiscal year 1949, the application of those portions of this section which require the employment of citizens of the Republic of Panama or of the United States in skilled, technical, clerical, administrative, executive, or supervisory positions. SEC. 3. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall be used to pay the salary or wages of any person who engages in a strike against the Government of the United States or who is a member of an organization of Government employees that asserts the right to strike against the Government of the United States, or who advo- cates, or who is a member of an organization that advocates, the over- throw of the Government of the United States by force or violence: Provided,That for the purposes hereof an affidavit shall be considered prima facie evidence that the person making the affidavit has not contrary to the provisions of this section engaged in a strike against the Government of the United States, is not a member of an organi- zation of Government employees that asserts the right to strike against the Government of the United States or that such person does not advocate, and is not a memcber of an organization that advocates, the 68706--49-pt. 1-- -65 1025 Waterworks, etc. , Panama and Colon. Canal Zone. Citizenship require- ment. Post, p. 1057. Employment of Panamanian citizens. 48U.S.C.§1307 note. Limitation. Employees with 15 years' service. Selection of person- nel. Hours of employ- ment; pay rates. Applicability. Wartime or emer- gency suspension. Housing shortage. Persons engaging, etc., in strikes against or advocating over- throw of U. S. Govern- ment. Affidavit.

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