To intensify promoting of cottage industry

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Part of The Bicol Star

Title: To intensify promoting of cottage industry
Language: English
Year: 1964
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Fulltext: Page 8 * The BICOL STAR ★ September 1 °, 1964 An Act Providing For Permanent Registration Of Voters (Continued from page 15) penses incident thereto ehall be paid in advance by said party. Sec. 23. Such sunn as are necesssry to carry out tbe objectives and purposes of this Act are hereby authorized to be appropriated. The positions created by this Act as well as tbe sums needed for operating expenses du* ring each fiscal year shall hereafter be included and provided for in annua) Appropriations Act. Provided, however. That the Commission on Elections ie hereby authorized to nse such sums available from any savings in the appropriation for the nineteen hundred sixty-three election as it may in its discretion deem necessary for the initial expenses to implement the provision of this Act. Sec. 24. Annulment of registry list.—Any precinct book of voters not prepared in accordance with the provisions of this Aet, or the preparation of which is effected with fraud, bribery, forgery, impersonation, intimidation, force or any other similar irregularity may, after due notice and hearing, be annulled by tbe Commission on Elections. Sec. 25. The preparation of a new list of voters which in accordance with section ninety*five of Republic Act Numbered One hundred eighty as amended by Republic Aet Numbered Five hundred sixty-three ie hereby postponed. Provided, That the list of voters for tbe nineteen hundred sixty-three election shall be prepared in accordance with section ono hundred one of the revised election code, to the date that this Act takes effect; on which date the Irst ef voters then existing shall be annulled and every voter shall have to register anew; Provided, That the provision ef this section shall not be applicable if the date this Act takes effect falls within less than one year from a general election; in wbiah case this section shall take effect on tbe first day of January next succeeding said general election. Sec. 26. Repealing clause. — Provisions of the Revised Election Code and other laws rules and regulation inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. Sec.j27. Effectivity — This Act shall take effect on January one, nineteen hundred sixty-four; Provided, That section twenty-five hereof shall take effect immediately upon pproval of this Act. Approved June 22, 1963; Greetings from Manuel C. Torres PNRC—ADMINISTRA TOR Camarines Sur—Naga City Chapter City cf Naga Compliments of — Atty. Benjamin P. Ramos Senior Technical Assistant Office of the Provincial Board City ef Naga Welcome Penafrancia Pilgrims— Jenny’s Tailoring Gen. Luna St. Naga City Welcome Penafrancia Pilgrims— Tabuco Commercial Biaknabato, Tabuco Naga City For a Successful Penafrancia Fiesta/ Carolina Breeding Farm Artificial Insemination Center ♦ LANDRACE * LARGE WHITE * DUR0C JERSEY Office Address: GERONIMO TRADING Abella St. Naga City Funeraria Cosmopolita. The home of beautiful Caskets (Established in 1926) The only one tbat is equipped with spacious solemn and impressive funeral coach, unique in the Bicol Region. During interment it gives renditions of Funeral Marches, Hymns & Chiming Records. We give Day & Night Service to all our patrons in Cam. Sur, Cam. Norte, Albay and Sorsogon. Office and Display Room: 576-510 Peiiafraneia Ave. City of Naga Mrs, Gaudencia Imperial de la Paz Asst. Manager- Treasurer context of the democratic preeepts by which our government operates. One of the specific mandates of our Constitution ie that “the state shall regulate the relations between landowner aad tenant and between labor and capital in industry and in agriculture” (Article XIV, Section 6). Consider therefore, that no lees than the fundamental law of tbe land recognizee the existence of certain social classes— specifically, tbat of landowner and tenant — in agiiculture. Consider also that the Constitution provides no more than regulation of such relations. What anyway is envisioned in the Land Reform Code? A simole perusal of tbe title and tbe provisions of the law readily conveys the impression tbat tbe positive intention of the legislature is to abolish tenancy and therefore to destroy an existing social class recognized by tbe Constitution. No stretch of the imagination is necessary to show tbat abolition or destruction is not and cannot be regulation. In simple language) regulation presupposes the existence of the land ownertenant relationship, and regulation cannot exist where there is no such relstionbip. Parenthetically, in the field of industry there is a counterpart measure of regulation of the relations between Hbcr and capital, which is R-pub ic Act 875, better known as tbe Magna Carta of Labor. This monumental legislation was enacted precisely in obedience to the constitutional mandate tbat tbe state shall regulate the relations between labor and capital in industry. It is worthwhile to note that this law does not at all seek to abolish or destroy any of such social classes recognized by tbe constitution in tbe field of industry. On tbe contrary, it seeks to preserve the relations between the capitalist and tbe laborer and to foster harmony, understanding and cooperation between such classes with industrial peace as its ultimate goal. There can there fore be no dispute that what tbe constitution desires in tbe field of agriculture is a similar regulatory effort towards the goal of agricultural peace. (Con’td. on page 10) To Intensify Promo ting of Cottage Industry Administrator Jovito A. Rivera of the National Cottage Industries Development Authority yesterday appealed to the economic sectors of the country specially to tbe rural areas to intensity the development and promotion of cottage industries as a major solation to the economic problems of the country. Rivera made the appeal as the NACIDA propares to celebrate Cottage Industries Week frem October 1-7. The NACI DA chief stressed that there is an imperative need to accelerate the production of handierrafts in view, he said, of the acceptance in the foreign markets of Philippine collage industry products. “This acceptance is the safest guarantee tbat Oottage industries, it fully developed, can significantly help in reshaping the posture of our ecouomy,” Rivera said. Rivera allayed fears of financial shortage in assisting cottage industries saying that the Cottage Industries Bank will soon operate with an initial capital of 5*5 million. He also said tbat cottage industries are more labor-intensive than capitrlintensive and therefore requires comparatively smaller capital. Rivera however warned that quality should not be sacrificed in tbe process of mass production. He admitted tbat tbe production o f interior quality handicrafts was what drew back our cottage industries prior to the creation of the NACIDA. The NACIDA, according to Rivera, will establish a technological center with the aid of the United Nations in an effort to held private producers conduct continuing researches or creatiug new products and maintaining high quality according to specifications from foreign buyers. Welcome & Farewell Party To 0-1 Members In Naga The Daughters of Isabella of Nrga City held a welcome party at the Rodriguez residence, this city in honor Mrs Virginia F. Perez, DI regent of the Naga Circle, who went to Washington 0D.C., U. S.A., where she attended the biennial convention of D.I. and Miss Tessie Palacio who also arrived from abroad. At the same time the party was also a farewell for Nena Mateus who is transferring to Davao City. Her husband, ,Ben Mateus supervisor of Philam Life in Naga, was promoted to be the Manager of Philam Life Insurance branch at Davao City. Among those present at the dual , affair were Dr. and Mrs. Joaquin I. Perez, Judge Perfecto Palacio and his daughter, Tessie, Mr. and Mrs, Benjamin Mateus, Atty, and Mrs. Delfin Rodriguez '(host and hostess) Pilaring Espinas, Dancing de la Paz, Cayang Modino, Conching Ventayen, Didang Reyes, Rosie Felipe, Benang Frias, Rosing Lim joco, Myrna Aurellano, y (Cwn’td. «>n page 10) Land Reform Under Freedom Speech delivered by Sen. Juan R, Liwag at a really of tenants held in barrio Santo Cristo, Gapan, Nueva Ecija July 20, 1964. Son. JUAN R. LIWAG During tbe regular session ef Congress this year, I took tbe floor of the Senate to deliver a privilege speech entitled “Our Muddled Rice Situation.’’ Shortly thereafter, I spoke before the 1964 Producers • Exporters Congress on the subject “The Land Reform Code — An Enigma.’’ In both of these speeches, I creticized the Land Reform Code in its present form as an undemocratic! unrealistic and unsound piece of legislation. This criticism draw varied reactions from many qu-rtere. It has been my misfurtune —or good fortune, depending on one's point of view-to ba most of tbe time involved in controversy. Be tbat as it may, I have welcomed both the praises and accusations levelled at me because this is a healthy sige of ovr growing democrayl But lest I be unjustly labeled as a mouthpiece of the landlords, as I believe I have already been so mis understood by some seeters, 1 deem it fit to clarify my position an tbe Land Reform Code. My stand on the Land Reform Code is clear; By all means, I am for land reform. I am all for the laudable objectives of the land progress. I believe that tbe wealth of tbe land that God has blessed us with should as much as possible be available to all Filipinos. But what I vehemently oppose is tbe adoption of any undemocratic or revolutions ry means of attaining this end. I am not against any particular class or in favor of any particular interest. But I cannot countenance the destruction of any social class by the coercive power ef legislation. I believe tbat success in land reform can be best attained not by a normal a revolutionary or coercive manner, but by a normal and evolutionary process. I have fsilb in freedom —like freedom of locomotion, freedom of ownership, freedom of contract, freedom of economic euterptise. I believe that freedom alone can and should be the most effective vehicle through which we can achieve progress and greatness. Under our Constitution, land reform is possible only in a regime of law, justice, liberty, and democracy. It must be pursued within tbe