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NATIONAL RECOVERY ADMINISTRATION 

CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

NARROW FABRICS 

INDUSTRY 

AS APPROVED ON FEBRUARY 27, 1934 

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Approved Code No. 312 

CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

NARROW FABRICS INDUSTRY / 

As Approved on :February 27, 1934 

ORDER 

APPROYING CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION FOR THE NARROW F ADIUCS 

• INDUSTRY 

An application having been dnly made pursuant to and in full 

compliance with the provisions o:f Title I of the National Industrial 

Recovery Act, approved June 16, 1933, for approval of a Code of 

Fair Competition for the Narrow Fabrics Industry, and hearings 

having been auly held thereon and the annexed report on said Code, 

containing findings with respect thereto, having been made and 

directed to the President: 

NO"T, THEREFORE, on behalf of the President of the United 

States, I, Hugh S. Johnson, Aclmini trator for Industrial Recovery, 

pursuant to authority vested in me by Executive Order of the President, including Executive Order No. 6543-A, elated December 30, 

1933, and otherwise; do hereby incorporate by reference said annexed 

report and do find that said Code complies in all respects with the 

pertinent provisions and will promote the policy and purposes of said 

Title of said Act; and do hereby order that said Code of Fair Competition be and it is hereby approved, provided however that Article 

V, Section 8 shall be modified to read as follows : 

"8. The having work done or labor performed on any product 

of the Industry in the home of a worker shall be prohibited." 

provided, however, that the Code Authority shall make a study at 

once of the extent of homework in this Industry £or the Administrator, and that pending such study Section 8 of Article V, as o 

modified, is stayed until the Administrator shall order that it become 

effective. 

HUGH s. JOHNSON, 

Adm.ini,stra,tm, f 01· Industrial R ecovery. 

Approval recommended: 

A. D. ,v HITESIDE, 

Division Admini,stTator. 

,v A HINGTON, D.C., 

Feb1·uary B7, 1934. 

43082°-376-148-34 (387) 
REPORT TO THE PRESIDENT 

The PRESIDENT, 

The White House. 

Srn: This is a report on the Hearing on the Code of Fair Competition for the Narrow Fabrics Industry, held in accordance with the 

provisions of the National Industrial Recovery Act in the South 

Lounge of the Hotel Ambassador on January 12, 1934. The Code, 

whi,ch is attached, was presented by duly qualified and authorized 

representatives of the Industry, complying with statutory requirements, said to represent 75 per cent by volume of the Industry. 

In accordance with the customary procedure eYery person who had 

filed a request for an appearance was freely heard in public, and 

all statutory and regulatory requirements were complied with. 

THE I ND"C-STRY 

The Industry comprises about 133-35 concerns, having an investment in 1929 of approximately $38,000,000. In 1933· the Incli,stry 

provided employment for 12,000 workers which is the same number 

employed during 1929. Aggregate annual sales have fallen from 

$45,900,000 in 1929 to about $30,000,000 in 1933. 

PTIOYISIONS OF THE CODE 

The Code provides for a minimun~ wage of 321⁄2¢ per hour in the 

North and 30t per hour in the South. It is stated in the Code that 

this minimum wage applies only to the lowest paid class of labor in 

the Industry. The Code provides that employees shall not receive for 

a work "'\\eek of 40 hours less compensation than they received for the 

longer work week preYailing prior to July 1, 1933. Pay schedules 

of employees receiving more than the minimum wages are to be 

readju ted equitably, and the Code Authority is designated the 

agency to see that this provision is carried out. Average weekly 

earnings in the Industry will be increased 5.2 per cent by the application of this Code and total pay-rolls will be increasP.d approximately 

22 per cent. 

Hours of work for office employees are limited to 40 hours per 

week averaged over a period of three months, provided that no 

employee works more than 48 hours in any one week. No other 

employee is permitted to work more than 40 hours per week and 8 

hour per day with the following exceptions : maintenance employees 

are permitted to work ten per cent in excess of the maximum hours; 

employees in the supervisory capacity receiving $30.00 or more per 

week arc not limited as to hours; watchmen are permitted to work 

not more than 56 hours per week j employees on emergency repair 

work are excepted, but are to be paid time and one-third for all over 

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time work. Operations ure limited to bYo shift of 40 hours each 

per week. The effect of this Code will be to increase employment 

approximately 21 per cent. 

There are no highly rest.ricti ve provision. in the Code itself. The 

sale of merchandise below cost is prohibited when and if a uniform 

system of cost accounting is approved by the Administrator. It is 

contemplated that supplemental Codes of Fair Trade Practice will 

be submitted for the different divisions of this Industry. 

FINDINGS 

The Deputy Administrator in his final report to me on said Code 

having found as herein set forth and on the basis of all the proceedings in this matter; 

I find that: 

(a) Said Code is well designed to promote the policies and purposes of Title I of the National Industrial Recovery Act, including 

remoYal of obstructions to the free flow of interstate and foreign 

commerce which tend to diminish the amount thereof and will provide for the general welfare by promoting the organization of industry for the purpose of cooperative action among the trade groups, 

by inducing and maintaining unit:Bd action of labor and management under adequate governmental sanctions and supervision, by 

eliminating unfair competitive practices, by promoting the fullest 

possible utilization of the present productive capacity of industries, 

by avoiding undue restriction of production ( except as may be 

temporaril:v required), by increasing the consumption of industrial 

and agricultural products through increasing purchasing power, by 

reducing and relieYing unemployment, by improving standards of 

labor, and by otherwise rehabilitating industry. 

(b) Said Industry normally employs not more than 50,000 employees; and is not classified by me as a major industry. 

(c) The Code as approved complies in all respects with the pertinent provisions of said Title of said Act including without limitation 

subsection (a) of Section 3, subsection (a) of Section 7, and subsection (b) of Section 10 thereof; and that the applicant group is an 

industrial group truly representative of the aforesaid Industry; and 

that said group imposes no inequitable restrictions on admission to 

membership therein. 

(cl) The Code is not designed to and will not permit monopolies 

or monopolistic practices. 

( e) The Code is not designed to and will not eliminate or oppress 

small enterprises and will not operate to discriminate against them. 

( f) Those engaged in other steps of the economic process have not 

been deprived of the right to be heard prior to approval of said Code. 

For these reasons, this Code of Fair Competition for the Narrow 

Fabrics Industry has been approved. 

Respectfully, 

FEBRUARY 27, 1934. 

HUGH S. JOHNSON, 

Aclm,inistrator. 
CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION. FOR THE NARROW 

FABRICS INDUSTRY 

ARTICLE I-PURPOSES 

To effectuate the policies of Title I of the National Industrial 

Recovery Act, the following provisions are established as a Code of 

Fair Competition for the Narrow Fabrics Industry, and shall be the 

standard of fair competition for such Industry and shall be binding 

upon every member thereof. 

ARTICLE II-DEFINITIONS 

1. The term "Indu try' as used herein includes the manufacture 

of the following, including any related processes ( except the spinning 

of yarn and preparatory processe thereto), and such branches and 

subdivisions thereof as may from time to time be included under the 

provisions of this Code, viz: 

(a) All Woven Elastic Fabric , except fabrics 16" or more in 

width having elastic in the filling only. 

(b) All Braided Elastic Fabrics. 

( c) All Braided Non-Elastic Fabrics. 

( d) Covered Rubber Thread, Hose Stipporters for the Garment 

Trade, Cutting and Tipping of Shoe Laces and Cor et Laces, and 

other related branches whose application may be approved by the 

Code Authority and the Administrator. 

It is pro-vided, however, that the term "Indu try ' shall not 

include millinery and dress trimmings made of unusual synthetic 

yarns and not of wool, silk, cotton, or rayon ( or similar yarn 1nade 

from acetate) . 

2. The term "member of the Industry" as u eel herein includes 

anyone engaged in the Industry as above defined, either as an 

employer or on his own behalf, and includes anyone who furnishes 

or contracts :for labor as a part of a larger or further operation in 

the proce s of manufacturing narrow fabrics. 

3. The term "employee" as used herein includes anyone engaged 

in the Industry in any capacity receiYing compensation for his services, irresp2ctive of the nature or method of payment of such 

compen ation. 

4. The term" employer" a· used herein includes anyone by whom 

any such employee is compensated or employed. 

5. The term "productive machinery ' as u. eel herein ·means weaving and braiding machines. 

6. The terms "Pre ident ", "Act", and "Administrator" as used 

herein, hall mean, respecti, ely, the President of the United States, 

Title I of the National Indu. trial Recovery Act, and the Administrator for Industrial Recoverv. 

7. The term " South" shall 'be defined to mean the States of North 

Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, 

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Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Arizona, New 

Mexico, Maryland, Kentucky, and Virginia. 

8. The term" North" shall mean the rest of the United States. 

9. The term " learner " as used herein includes unskilled workers 

with less than six weeks experience in the Industry. 

10. The term "outside workers" as used herein includes workers 

engaged principally outside the factory and not in actual factory 

production. 

ARTICLE III-HouRs 

1. No office employee shall work or be permitted to work in excess of forty (40) hours per week averaged over a period of three (3)' 

months, or forty-eight (48) hours in any one (1) week. 

2. No other employee shall work or be permitted to work in excess of forty (40) hours in any one (1) week or eight (8) hours in 

any twenty-four (24) hour period, excepting that: 

(a) Repair shop crews, shipping and outside workers, engineers, 

electricians, and firemen shall be permitted to work 10 per cent in 

excess of the maximum hours specified above. 

(b) Executives and employees in a managerial or supervisory capacity who receive at the rate of $30.00 or more per week, and outside salesmen, are excepted frmn the maximum hour provisions of 

this Article III. All such employees shall be listed with the agent 

of the Code Authority. 

(c) Watchmen shall be permitted to work not more than fifty-six 

( 56) hours in any one week. 

3. The maximum hours fixed in the foregoing Section shall not 

apply to any employee on emergency maintenance or emergency repair work involving· extraordinary break-downs or protection of 

life or property, but in any such special case one and one-third (11⁄2) 

times the normal rate shall be paid for the hours worked in excess of 

the maximum hours herein provided. 

At the end of each calendar month eYery e1nployer shall report to 

the agent of the Code Authority, hereinafter provided :for, in such 

detail as may be required, the number of man-hours worked in that 

month in cases of emergency, and the ratio which said emergency 

man-hours bear to the total number of man-hours of labor during 

said month. 

4. lv1embers of the Industry shall not operate productive machinery 

as herein before defined for more than two shifts of forty ( 40) hours 

each per week. 

5. No employee shall work or be permitted to work for a total 

number of hours in excess of the number of hours prescribed for each 

week and day, whether employed by one or more employers. 

ARTICLE IV-WAGES 

1. No employee shall be paid at less than the rate of 321/2¢ per 

hour when employed in the North and 30¢ per hour ,..,hen employed 

in the South. This minimum wage applie only to the lowe ,t cla sifications of occupations; skilled workers shall be paid upon a higher 

wage scale as provided in Section 3 of this Article. 
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2. This Article e. tablishes a nummnm rate of pay regardless of 

whether an employee i · compensated on a time-rate, piecework, or 

other ba ·is. 3. o employee shall receive for a full week's work less compensation for the hours of labor permitted under this Code than he 

receiYed or ,-rould haY0 received for a full week'.· work of longer 

hours prior to J uly. 1, 1933, and the . ame rule shall be applied equitably to any employee working less than a full week. Pay schedul~s 

of employees aboYe the minimum shall be readjusted in any case and 

in uch manner as hall be equitable. It shall be the duty of the 

Code Authority to effectuate the operation of this provi ion. 

4. A person ,vhose ~arning capacity is limited because of ao-e or 

physical or mental handicap may be employed on light work at a 

wage below the minimum established by this Code if the employer 

obtains from the State Autho1·ity designated by the United States 

Dep~-rb~1ent of Labor a certificate authorizing his employment at 

such wages and for such hours a. shall be stated in the certificate. 

Each employer shall file-with the Code Authority a Ii t of all such 

persons em ployed by him. 

5. Learners . hall not be paid le ·s than 80 per cent of the minimum 

rate of pay and no employer shall include within the category of 

learners more than 5 per cent of the total number of employees in 

his plant. 

ARTICLE V-GENERAL LABOH PROVISIONS 

1. N" o person under lG years of age shall be employed in the In 4 

dustry. In any State an employer shall be deemed to have complied 

with thi provi ion if he shall have on file a certificate or permit 

duly issued by the Authority in such State, ernpowered to issue employment or age certificates or permits, showing that the employee 

is of the required age. 

2. Employees shall have the right to organize and bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing, and halJ 

be free from the interference, re traint, or coercion of employers of 

Jabor, or their agent., in the designation of such representatives or 

jn self-organization or in other concerted activities for the purpose 

of collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection. 

3. No employee and no one seeking employment shall be required 

as a condition of employment to join any company union or to 

refrain from joining, organizing, or assisting a labor organization 

of hi · own choosing. 

4. Employer· shall comply with the maximum hours of labor, 

minimum rates of pay, and other conditions of e1nployment approved 

or pre cribed by the President. 

5. Within each State members of the Industry shall comply with 

any laws of such State imposing more stringent requirements on 

employers, regulating the age of employees, wages, hours of work, 

or health, fire or general working conditions than under this Code. 

6. Employers shall not reclas ify employees or duties of occupations performed by employees or use any other subterfuge so as to 

defeat the purposes of the Act. 

7. Each employer shall po t in conspicuous places full copie of 

this Code. 
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8. The doing of work or the performance of labor on any product 

of the Industry in the home of a worker shall be prohibited.

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9. Until adoption by members of this Industry of further provisions of this Code that may prove necessary in order to prev~nt any 

improper speeding up of the work (Stretchouts) no manufacturing 

employee in the Industry shall be required to do any work in excess 

of the practice as to the class of work of such employee prevailing 

on July 1, 1933, or prior to the Share-The-vVork movement unless 

such increase is submitted to and approved by the Code Authority 

created by this Code and the Ad1ninistrator. 

10. If any employer of labor in the Narrow Fabrics Industry is 

also an employer of labor in another Industry, the provisions of this 

Code shall apply to and affect only that part of his business which 

is included in the Narrow Fabrics Industry. 

ARTICLE VI-Am,nNISTnA TION 

To further effectuate the policies of the Act, a Code Authority is 

hereby constituted to administer this Code. 

1. Organization and con titution of the Coe.le Authority: 

(a) The Code Authority shall consist of 8 Mill Executives selected 

by the members of the Industry as set forth in subsection (b) below 

and not over two additional members when appro-,ed by the Code 

Authority and the Administrator to r-epre. ent related branches of 

this Industry, and such additional members "Without vote and without 

expense to the Industry, not to exceed three, as the Administrator in 

his discretion may appoint to represent such groups or interests or 

such governmental agencies as he may designate. The Code Authority may delegate to subcommittee such of it powers and duties as it 

may deem necessary. 

(b) Each of the Divisional groups in this Industry, as provided 

in subsections (a), (b), and ( c) of Section 1, Article II, shall elect 

to the Code Authority repl'esentatives of their own choosing by 

methods appro,ed by the Administrator as follm-vs : 

(a) "'\V 0Yen Elastic Division-Four 1'fill ExecutiYe ·. 

(b) Braided Elastic Division-Two ~1ill1 Executives. 

( c) Braided Non-Elastic Di-vision-Two :Mill ExecutiYes. 

The members of the Code Authority shall hold office for one year 

or until their successors are elected and qualified. Any Ya.cancy in 

the membership of the Code Authority shall be filled by majority 

Yote of the remaining memben from the Dfri~·ion in "'TT'hich the 

vacancy occurs. In the ca e of failure to elect a member or members from any Division or Divisions the Administrator may appoint 

a member or members to act until such time as election is effected. 

( c) Each trade or indu -trial association directly or indirectly 

participating in the selection or activities of the Cotle Authority 

shall: (1) impose no inequitable restrictions on member ·hip, and (2) 

submit to the Admi 1istrator true copies of its articles of A sociation, by-laYvs, regulation:, and any amendments when made thereto, 

together with such other information as to member ·hip, organizn.-

tion and acti vi tie as the Administrator may deem necessary to 

effectuate the purposes of the Act. 

1 See p:nagraph 2 of order approving this Code. 
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(cl) In order that the Code Authority shall at all times be truly 

representative of the Inclu try and in other respects comply with the 

proYisions of the .. \.ct, the Administrator niay prescribe such hearings as he may deem proper; and thereafter if he shall find that 

the Code Authority i · not truly representative or does not in other 

respect comply with the provisions of the Act, may require an 

appropriate modification in the method of selection of the Code 

Authority. ! 

( e) The Code Authority shall investigate the importation of competiti-ve articles into the United States which render ineffective or 

seriously endanger the maintenance of this Code and act as the 

agency for making complaint to the President on behalf of the 

Narrow Fabrics Industry. 

( f) N[embers of the Industry shall be entitled to participate in 

and share the benefits of the activities of the Code Authority and 

to participate in the selection of the members thereof by assenting 

to and complying with the requirements of this Code and sustaining 

their reasonable share of the expense of its administration. The 

reasonable share of the expenses of administration shall be determined by the Code Authority, subject to review by the Administrator, on such basis as may be deemed equitable. 

(g) 1\/Iembers of the Industry shall file with the agent of the Code 

Authority at such ti.mes and in such manner as may be prescribed, 

stati tics co-vering number of employees, wage rates, employee earnings, hours of work, prodnction, shipments, stocks, prices, and such 

other data pertinent to the effectuation of the purposes of this Code, 

as may be required or approved by the Administrator. 

(h) All data filed in accordance with the provisions of this Code 

shall be confidential and shall not be revealed to anyone other than 

an authorized Governmental agency; except that when in compiled 

fonn or coded to prevent injury to any member, it may be revealed 

to the Code Authority or to the authorized agent of any approved 

Industry group; provided, however, that any information or sta• 

tistics that the Code Authority may deem to be essential for the 

proper performance of any of its functions shall be made available 

to the Code Authority by the agent receiving such reports. 

2. To the extent permitted by the Act, the Code Authority shall 

have the following powers and duties: 

(a) To cooperate with the Administrator in making investigations 

as to the functioning and observance of any provisions of this Code, 

at its own instance or on complaint by any person, and report the 

same to the Administrator. 

(b) To coordinate and supervise the administration of the Code 

for the Industry, and to designate a disinterested agent to receive 

and compile all reports required under this Code, and to effectuate 

the policy of the National Industrial Recovery Act with respect to 

the Industry. The Code Authority shall set up its own rules of 

procedure. 

3. In addition to the information required to be submitted to the 

Code Authority, there shall be :furnished to Government agencies 

such statistical information as the Administrator may deem necessary 

for the purposes recited in Section 3 (a) of the Act. 

4. Any interested party shall have the right of appeal to the 

Administrator under ~uch rules and regulations as he shall prescribe 
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with respect to any decision, rule, regulation, order or finding made 

by the Code Authority. 

5. If the Administrator shall determine that any action of a Code 

Authority or any agency thereof may be unfair or unjust or contrary 

to the public interest, the Administrator may require that such action 

be suspended to afford an opportunity for investigation of the merits 

of such action and further consideration by such Code Authority or 

agency pending final action which shall not be effective unless the 

Administrator approves or unless he shall fail to disapprove after 

thirty days' notice to him of intention to proceed with such action 

in its original or modified form. 

ARTICLE VII-TRADE PRACTICES 

1. No member of the Industry shall sell or exchange any product 

of the Industry at a price or upon such terms or conditions that will 

result in the customer paying for the goods received less than the 

cost to the seller, as may be determined as herein provided, except to 

meet the competition of any member of the Indu try whose price is 

not less than his own cost; provided, however, that dropped lines, 

seconds or inventories which must be converted into cash to meet 

emergency needs may be disposed of in such manner and on such 

terms and conditions as the Code Authority may approve, subject to 

appeal to the Administrator, and as are necessary to move such product into the buyers' hands. This provision shall not beco1ne effective 

until a uniform and standard system of cost accounting shall be 

approved by the Code Authority and the Administrator with whatever variations may be deemed advisable for the several Divisions. 

Following such approval, every member of the Industry shall use a 

system of accounting which conforms to the principles of and is at 

least as detailed as such system. The Code Authority, with the 

approval of the Administrator, shall determine the cost factors to 

be included in such system. 

2. The following unfair trade practices are prohibited: 

(a) False Marking or Brancling.-The false marking or branding of any. product of the Indu try which has a tendency to n1islead 

or deceive customers or prospective customers, whether as to grade, 

quality, quantity, substance, character, nature, origin, size, finish, or 

preparation of any product of the Industry or otherwise. 

(b) Oom,1ne?'dal Bribery.-The giving, permitting to be given, 

or directly offering to give anything of value for the purpose of 

influencing or rewarding the action of any employee, agent, or representative~ of another in relation to the business of the employer 

of such employee, the principal of such agent or the represented 

party, without the knowledge of such employer, principal, or party. 

This provision shall not be construed to prohibit free and general 

distribution of articles commonly used for adverti ing except so far 

as such article~ are actually u eel for commercial bribery as hereinabove defined. 

( c) 8 ec'ret Rebates.-The secret payment or allowance of rebates, refunds, commis~ions, credits, or unearned discounts, whether in 

the form of money or otherwi e, or the secret extension to certain 

purcha~er of . pecial ser-vice or privileges not extended to all purchasers on like terms and conc1i tions. 
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( cl) False I n oicing.-,Yithholcling from, or inserting in any invoice, \\"Orcls or fi o-ure · which make or tend to make such invoice 

a f al e r ecord, wholly or in part, of the tran action represented on 

the face thereof. 

ARTICLE VIII-Mo mFICATION 

1. This Code and all the provi ion thereof are expre ·ly made 

subject to the right of the Pre ·ident, in accordance with the provisions of sub ection (b) of Section 10 of the National Industrial 

Recovery Act, from time to time to cancel or modify any order, 

approval, license, rule, or regulation issued under Title I of said 

Act and specifically, but without limitation, to the right of the President to cancel or modify his approval of this Code or any conditions 

imposed by him upon his approval thereof. 

2. This Code, except as to provisions required by the Act, may b~ 

n1odified on the basis of experience or changes in circumstance. , such 

modifications to be ba ·eel upon application to the Administrator and 

uch notice and hearing as he shall specify, and to become effective on 

approval of the Administrator. 

3. This Code is intended to be a Basic Code and to cover the 

entire Industry. It is understood, however, that trade associations, 

groups of manufacturers or trade groups representing a sub-tantial 

part of any specific subdivision of this Industry may formulate Supple1nent ary Codes of Fair Competition, not inconsistent with the 

provi ions of this Basic Code, defining specifically the subdivision 

and covering such r egulations as are considered advisable by them. 

Such Codes when approved by the Code Authority and the A<.lminisC> 

trator shall have the same force and effect as this Basic Code. 

ARTICLE IX-l\1oNoPoLrns, ETc. 

No provisions of this Code hall be so applied as to permit 1nonopolies or monopolistic practices, or to eliminate, oppress, or discriminate 

against small enterpri es. 

ARTICLE X-EFFECTIVE DATE 

This Code shall become effective on the second l\1onday after its 

approval. 

Approved Cocle No. 312. 

Registry No. 299-43. 

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