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PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 144-JUNE 25, 1943 Penalty. "Labor organiza- tion." 49 Stat. 450. 29U. .C.§152(5). (Certificate of House VfRepresentatives. Certificate of origin. in connection with any election at which Presidential and Vice Presi- dential electors or a Senator or Representative in, or a Delegate or Resident Commissioner to Congress are to be voted for, or for any candidate, political committee, or other person to accept or receive any contribution prohibited by this section. Every corporation or labor organization which makes any contribution in violation of this section shall be fined not more than $5,000; and every officer or director of any corporation, or officer of any labor organization, who consents to any contribution by the corporation or labor organization, as the case may be, in violation of this section shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned for not more than one year, or both. For the purposes of this section 'labor organization' shall have the same meaning as under the National Labor Relations Act." TERMINATION OF ACT SEC. 10. Except as to offenses committed prior to such date, the provisions of this Act and the amendments made by this Act shall cease to be effective at the end of six months following the termina- tion of hostilities in the present war, as proclaimed by the President, or upon the date (prior to the date .of such proclamation) of the passage of a concurrent resolution of the two Houses of Congress stating that such provisions and amendments shall cease to be effective. SEPARABILITY SEC. 11. If any provision of this Act or of any amendment made by this Act, or the application of such provision to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, the remainder of the Act and of such amendments, and the application of such provision to other persons or circumstances, shall not be affected thereby. SAM RAYBURN Speaker of the House of Representatives. H A WALLACE Vice President of the United States and President of the Senate. IN THE HOUSE O IlR{EIPISEN'TA'IVES OF TIrE NITED STATES, June 25, 1.943. The House of Representatives having proceeded to reconsider the bill (S. 79(i) entitled "An Act relating to the use and operation by the United States of certain plants, mines, and facilities in the prosecution of the war, and preventing strikes, lock-outs, and stoppages of produc- tion, and for other purposes", returned by the President of the United States with his objections, to the Senate, in which it originated, and passed by the Senate on reconsideration of the same, it was Resolved, That the said bill pass, two-thirds of the House of Repre- sentatives agreeing to pass the same. Attest: SourrH TRIMBLE Clerk. I certify that this Act originated in the Senate. EDWIN A. HALSEY Secretary. [57 STAT.