Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 67.djvu/421

 67

STAT.]

385

PUBLIC LAW 195-AUG. 5, 1953 INLAND WATERWAYS CORPORATION

Inland Waterways Corporation (administered under the supervision and direction of the Secretary of Commerce): Not to exceed $480,000 shall be available for administrative expenses, including not to exceed $12,000 for expenses of travel, to be determined in the manner set forth under the title "General expenses" in the Uniform System of Accounts for Carriers by Water of the Interstate Commerce Commission (effective January 1, 1947); and funds available for operating expenses shall be available for hire of passenger motor vehicles: Provided, That no funds shall be used to pay compensation of employees normally subject to the Classification Act of 1949, as amended, at rates in excess of ^-ates fixed for similar services under the provisions of said Act, nor to pay the compensation of vessel employees and such terminal and other employees as are not covered b}^ said Act, at rates in excess of rates prevailing in the river transportation industry in the area (including prevailing leave allowances for vessel employees, but the granting of such allowances shall not be construed as establishing a different leave system within the meaning of that term as used in section 3 of the Act of December 21, 1944 (5 U.S.C. 61d)).

63 Stat. 954. 5 USC 1071 note.

58 Stat. 846.

TITLE V—GENEKAL PROVISIONS SEC. 501. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act, or of the funds available for expenditure by any corporation included 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 advocates, or is a member of an organization that advocates, the overthrow 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 organization 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 member of an organization that advocates, the overthrow of the Government of the United States by force or violence: Provided further, That 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 advocates, or who is a member of an organization that advocates, the overthrow of the Government of the United States by force or violence and accepts employment the salary or wages for which are paid from any appropriation or fund contained in this Act shall be guilty of a felony and, upon conviction, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned for not more than one year, or both: Provided further, That the above penalty clause shall be in addition to, and not in substitution for, any other provision^ of existing law. SEC. 502. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall be used for publicity or propaganda purposes not heretofore authorized by the Congress. SEC. 503. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall be used to pay any expenses incident to or in connection with, participation in the International Materials Conference. This Act may be cited as the "Departments of State, Justice, and Commerce Appropriation Act, 1954." Approved August 5, 1953.

Strikes or over*t h r o w of Government.

Affidavit.

Penalty,

Publicity or propaganda.

Restriction

Short title.

�