An Act to extend the coverage of the Servicemens Indemnity Act to members of the Reserve Officers Training Corps when ordered to active training duty for periods in excess of 14 days
PL 83-638 (H.R.5314), enacted 08/24/1954

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Separability. 
"(1) act as representative of any employee within the meaning 
or for the purposes of section 7 of the National Labor Relations 
Act, as amended (29 U. S. C. 157) ; 
"(2) serve as an exclusive representative of employees of any 
bargaining unit under section 9 of such Act, as amended (29 
U. S. C. 159); 
"(3) make, or obtain any hearing upon, any charge under sec-
tion 10 of such Act (29 U. S. C. 160) ; or 
"(4) exercise any other right or privilege, or receive any other 
benefit, substantive or procedural, provided by such Act for labor 
organizations. 
"(i) When an order of the Board determining that any such labor 
organization is a Communist-infiltrated organization has become final, 
and such labor organization theretofore has been certified under the 
National Labor Relations Act, as amended, as a representative of 
employees in any bargaining unit— 
"(1) a question of representation affecting commerce, within 
the meaning of section 9 (c) of such Act, shall be deemed to exist 
with respect to such bargaining unit; and 
"(2) the National Labor Relations Board, upon petition of 
not less than 20 per centum of the employees in such bargaining 
unit or any person or persons acting in their behalf, shall under 
section 9 of such Act (notwithstanding any limitation of time 
contained therein) direct elections in such bargaining unit or any 
subdivision thereof (A) for the selection of a representative 
thereof for collective bargaining purposes, and (B) to determine 
whether the employees thereof desire to rescind any authority 
previously granted to such labor organization to enter into any 
agreement with their employer pursuant to section 8 (a) (3) (ii) 
of such Act. 
"(j) When there is in effect a final order of the Board determining 
that any such employer is a Communist-infiltrated organization, 
such employer shall be ineligible to— 
"^1) file any petition for an election under section 9 of the 
National Labor Relations Act, as amended (29 U. S. C. 157), or 
participate in any proceeding under such section; or 
"(2) make or obtain any hearing upon any charge under sec-
tion 10 of such Act (29 U. S. C. 160); or 
"(3) exercise any other right or privilege or receive any other 
benefit, substantive or procedural, provided by such Act for 
employers." 
SEC. 11. Subsections (a) and (b) of section 14 of such Act (50 
U. S. C. 793) are amended by inserting in each such subsection, imme-
diately after the words "section 13", a comma and the following: "or 
subsection (f) of section 13A,". 
SEC. 12. If any provision of this title or the application thereof 
to any person or circumstances is held invalid, the remainder of the 
title, and the application of such provisions to other persons or cir-
cumstances, shall not be affected thereby. 
Approved August 24, 1954, 9:40 a.m., M.S.T. 
Public Law 638 
CHAPTER 887 
AN ACT 
August 24, 1954 
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Q extend the coverage of the Servicemen's Indemnity Act to members of the 
Reserve Officers' Training Corps when ordered to active training duty for 
periods in excess of fourteen days. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
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United States of America in Congress assembled^ That section 2 of the 
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Servicemen's Indemnity Act of 1951 is amended by inserting immedi- ""Ust^t. 33 
ately after "including the National Guard when called or ordered to 
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active duty or active training duty for fourteen days or more;" the 
following: "members of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps, the 
Naval Reserve Officers' Training Corps, and the Air Force Reserve 
Officers' Training Corps, when called or ordered to active training duty 
for fourteen days or more while on such active training duty;". 
SEC. 2. The amendment made by this Act shall take effect as of April 
Effective date. 
25,1951. 
Approved August 24, 1954. 
Public Law 639 
CHAPTER 888 
AN A C T 
August 24, 1954 
To authorize the Commissioner of Public Lands of the Territory of Hawaii to 
[H. R . 5832]— 
sell public lands to certain lessees, permittees, and others. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That any provision 
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of section 73 of the Hawaiian Organic Act, as amended, or of the lessees'! etc? ^ 
Land Laws of Hawaii, as amended, to the contrary notwithstanding, 
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the Commissioner of Public Lands of the Territory of Hawaii, with 1509-1512. 
the approval of the Governor and two-thirds of the members of the 
Board of Public Lands, in his discretion, may transfer and convey 
to any applicant who is a citizen of the United States, or who has 
heretofore legally declared his intentions to become a citizen of the 
United States, upon his becoming such, 
(1) who upon the date of approval of this Act held public 
lands in the Territory of Hawaii, by lease or revocable permit, 
(2) who on the said date, had, or whose predecessors in interest, 
or the combination of both, had occupied such land for an aggre-
gate period of not less than five continuous years, 
(3) who while still holding such land by lease or revocable 
permit, applies for a transfer and conveyance of such public 
land to himself, and 
(4) who complies with all rules and regulations duly promul-
gated with regard to such public land, 
not more than one-half acre of such land as was in use by the applicant 
for a house lot or for business purposes, or both, as the case may be, and 
such adjoining land as may be reasonably required for a right-of-way 
to a government road, upon the payment of a fair and reasonable 
price, which price shall be determined by a disinterested appraiser 
or appraisers, but not more than three, to be appointed by the Gov-
ernor of Hawaii, all improvements thereon made or purchased by 
the applicant or his predecessors in interest to be valued at $1. 
SEC. 2. Not more than three acres of public lands immediately „^*'"***'"y °^"" 
adjacent to any cemetery now in existence may, with the consent of 
such person or persons, if any, as could qualify under section 1 for the 
purchase of said land, be sold to the owner or owners of said cemetery. 
This Act, with the exception of paragraphs (1), (2), and (3) of 
section 1, shall apply to any such sale made to the owner or owners of 
a cemetery. 
SEC. 3. In the case of an applicant giving his consent to a sale to a 
cemetery pursuant to section 2, or when the Commissioner of Public 
Lands shall deem it to be in the public interest, he may substitute in 
place of the lands used by the applicant, or in place of the portion 
thereof requested by him, as the case may be, other appropriate pub-
lic lands of no greater area or value, the applicant to bear the cost 
of the relocation on the substituted land of any improvements.