Postwar Problems and the Republic
First organized in
The damage done by the war to the
Philippines and the Filipino was incalculable. The
basic problem their fare, that confronted the
commonwealth and, later, the republic was
economic. Buildings, school, houses, roads, and
bridges, livestock, sugar mills and agriculture.
The united states gave material and financial aid
to the Philippines on condition that the Philippine
Constitution should be amended in order to give
the Americans party rights in the exploitation of
the countrys natural resources. Amidst
economic, social, and political confusion, the
Philippine was born to shoulder the
responsibilities attendant to an independent
existences.
Postwar Economic Condition
The ravage of war had left their imprint on
the economy of the country. The incomes of the
people dipped radically and means of livelihood
were reduced tremendously. Poverty, resulting
from widespread destruction of property,
including work animals, was rampant throughout
the country. It was estimated that the damage
different industries amounted to about
P582,500,000., while domestic asset sustained a
reduction of about P798,767,595. Various
industries suffered great losses:
*P140,291,000-Rice
*P121,210,000-Mining
*P94,590,000-Sugar
*P81,203,000-Livestock
The losses of their industries, such as lumber,
abaca, coconut, and fishing, were inconsiderable
compared with others.
The PCAU
The American army promptly create the
Philippine Civil Affairs Unit (PCAU). The agency
provided speedily relief for all the people of
manila and provinces which had been recently
liberated from Japanese rule.
the new Guinea on September 28, 1994, the
PCAU took part in Leyte campaigns. Its purpose to
assist the various military commanders in the
civil administration and relief in the areas
liberated. Thus, clothed with this authority, the
PCAU paid the salaries of the municipal officials
and teachers in areas already in the hands of the
Americans.
PCAU organized food distributing centers in
Manila and the provinces.
*Rice
*Cracked corns
*Sardines
*Salmon
Find the American canned goods were distributed
free to other people.
PCAU also provided employment to laborers who
went each paid P1.00 daily with food and P1.20
without food.
In the views of hoarding and the consequent rise
in the prices of goods. President Osmea issued
an Executive order setting maximum prices for
goods sold in liberated areas. Thus, elon-elon was
pegged at P0.32 per ganta; wheat flour, P0.15 per
kilo; vegetable lard, P0.35 per kilo; refined sugar
brown P0.14 per kilo; dried fish, first class, P0.80
per kilo; second class P0.60; third class P0.40;
fourth class P0.20; two tomatoes, 0.01, and so on,
including prices for gabi, banana, petroleum, shirt
drawers, undershirt, towel, handkerchief, haircut
and etc. The executive order however, was only
good in paper, for the prices of commodities in
the market very much higher. For example which
the government pegged at P0.30 each were sold
at P0.70 in all public markets.