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58. The Nation shall regulate by law the conservation of the cultural treasures of the Nation, its artistic and historic wealth, and shall especially protect national monuments and places notable for their natural beauty or their acknowledged artistic or historic value.

59. A National Council on Education and Culture shall be created, which, under the Chairmanship of the Minister of Education, shall be charged with developing, technically orienting or inspecting the educational, scientific and artistic activities of the Nation.

Its opinion shall be heard by Congress on every bill relating to matters of its competency.

Positions on the National Council on Education and Culture shall be honorary and gratuitous.


Title VI.—Labour and Property

Section 1. Labour

60. To work is an inalienable right of the individual. The Nation shall employ the resources within its reach to furnish employment to every one who lacks it and shall assure to every manual or intellectual worker the economic conditions necessary to a fitting existence.

61. Every manual or intellectual worker of public or private enterprises, the Nation, Provinces or Municipalities, shall be guaranteed a minimum wage or salary, which shall be determined in accordance with the conditions of each region and the normal needs of the worker, from a material, moral and cultural standpoint, and considering him as the head of a family.

The method of periodically regulating minimum wages or salaries, by means of commissions on which employers and workers shall be equally represented, for each branch of labour, in accordance with the standard of living and the peculiarities of each region and each industrial, commercial or agricultural activity, shall be determined by law.

In piece work, work for an agreed price or a lump sum, it shall be obligatory that the minimum wage for a working day be reasonably assured.

The minimum of every wage or salary is non-attachable, except for liabilities for living allowances in the manner established by law. Instruments of labour of the workers are also non-attachable.