ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER NO. 17, March 19, 1954

CREATING A COMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE THE ALLEGED LABOR ANOMALIES IN GUAM.

A Committee is hereby created to investigate the alleged anomalies in the employment of Filipino laborers in Guam, composed of the following:

Dean Vicente G. Sinco, College of Law, U. P. ................................................................	Chairman
Mr. Mariano Tuazon, Labor Commissioner, Court of Industrial Relations ......................	Member
Mr. Juan Matutina, Assistant Auditor, National Power Corporation ................................	Member

For the purpose of the investigation, the Committee is hereby granted all the powers of an investigating committee under Sections 71 and 580 of the Revised Administrative Code, including the power to summon witnesses, administer oaths, and take testimony or evidence relevant to the investigation. The Committee is also empowered and authorized to call upon any department, bureau, office, agency or instrumentality of the Government for such information as it may require in the performance of its work, and, for the purpose of securing such information, it shall have access to and the right to examine any books, documents, papers, or records thereof.

The Committee shall submit its report and recommendations within the shortest time possible.

Done in the City of Manila, this 19th day of March, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-four, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the eighth.

(Sgd.) RAMON MAGSAYSAY

President of the Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.) FRED RUIZ CASTRO

Executive Secretary