WHEREAS, Executive Order No. 1004 provides for the implementation of the National Civic Action Program jointly by the Ministry of National Defense and the Ministry of Public Works and Highways;

WHEREAS, it has been recommended through a Joint Communique by government, labor and management sectors in the Employment Conference on the Sugar Industry at Bacolod City on February 22, 1985 to include Region VI among the priority areas covered by Executive Order No. 1004, which recommendation was affirmed by the Minister of National Defense;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested to me by the Constitution, do hereby direct the Minister of National Defense to include in the civic action program Region VI. In accordance with Executive Order No. 1004, in order to contribute to the alleviation of the plight of the workers in the sugar industry.

Done in the City of Manila, this 1st day of May 1985.

(Sgd.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS
  President
Republic of the Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.) JUAN C. TUVERA
Presidential Executive Assistant