Approved Code No. 172 Registry No. 230-07 

NATIONAL RECOVERY ADMINISTR-A-TION 

CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

RAYON AND SILK DYEING 

AND PRINTING INDUSTRY 

AS APPROVED ON DECEMBER 21, 1933 

BY 

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT 

1. Executive Order 

2. L~tter of Transmittal 

3. Code 

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Approved Code No. 172 

CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

for the 

RAYON AND SILK DYEING AND PRINTING 

INDUSTRY 

As Approved on December 21, 1933 

By 

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT 

Executive Order 

An application having been duly made, pursuant to and in full 

compliance with the provisions of title I of the National Industrial 

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

of Fair Competition for the Rayon and Silk Dyeing and Printing 

Industry, and hearings having been held thereon and the Administrator having rendered his report containing an analysis of the said 

code of fair competition together with his recommendations and 

findings with respect thereto, and the Administrator having found 

that the said code of fair competition complies in all respects with 

the pertinent provisions of title I of said act and that the requirements of clauses (1) and (2) of subsection (a) of section 3 of the 

said act have been met: · 

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the 

United States, pursuant to the authority vested in me by title I of 

the National Industrial Recovery Act, approved June 16, 1933, and 

otherwise, do adopt and approve the report, recommendations and 

findings of the Administrator and do order that the said code of fair 

competition be and it is hereby approved, to become effective in place 

of the code of labor provisions for said industry heretofore approved 

by me on July 22, 1933. 

Approval recommended: 

HuGH S. JoHNSON, 

Administrator. 

THE W mTE HousE, 

December ~1, 1933. 

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT. 

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DECEUBER 9, 1933. 

THE PRESIDENT' 

The White House. 

INTRODUCTION 

Sm: This is a report on the Hearing of the Code of Fair Competition for the Rayon and Silk Dyeing and Printing Industry. 

The hearing was held, in the Garden Room of the Mayflower 

Hotel in 'Vashington, D.C., on November 10, 1933, in accordance 

with the provisions of the National Industrial RecoYery Act. Every 

person who filed an appearance was freely heard in public and all 

statutory and regulatory requirements were complied with. 

Attached herewith is n. copy of the Code which was presented 

by duly qualified and authorized representatives of the above industry, complying with the statutory requirements, as representing 92 

percent of the industry. 

• EviDENCE SUBMITTED 

Pending a Public Hearing upon a Code of Fair Competition the 

Rayon and Silk Dyeing and Printing Industry has been operating 

under an Executive Order dated July 22, 1933: 

In 1929 the industry employed approximately 25,000 people with 

a pay roll of forty million dollars and net sales of 106 million 

dollars. In 1932 the number of people employed had dropped to 

20,000 people, the pay roll to 23 million, and the net sales to 53 million dollars. Actual yardage processed during this period increased2 which shows that the drop in net sales was due to the shrinkage ot 

prices charged for services. 

Since the Executive Order of July 22, 1933, went into effect between 4,000 and 5,000 people have been added to the industry, bringing the number now employed up to the 1929 level. During the same 

period wages have increased approximately 25 percent. 

While wages paid are approximately 25 percent higher than in 

1929, the prices charged by the industry for its services today are 

still approximately 30 percent less than the prices charged for ~ comparable services in 1929 and from 30 to 40 percent less than the peak 

prices from 1926 to 1929. 

R:Esm\IE OF Pnm rsroN s OF THE ConE 

The Code provides for a minimum wage of 45 cents per hour for 

male employees 18 years of age and over, and 35 cents per hour for 

female employees (engaged in task not heretofore performed by 

males in the plant in which such females may be employed). 

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Hours are limited to 40 hours per week, except with respect to 

certain maintenance and . repair classifications, for which 48 hours 

employment is permitted. A maximum of 48 hours per week is 

placed upon employees engaged in continuous chemical processes. 

Productive machinery is limited to (80) hours, except that used 

solely for the processing of velvet may be operated not to exceed 120 

hours in any one week. 

Except for the activities of office staff, engineers, electricians, machinists, firemen, maintenance employees, and watchmen, no plant is 

allowed to operate between Saturday at 6: 00 a.m. and Monday at 

6: 00 a.m., nor on legal holidays. 

FINDINGS 

I find that: 

The Code complies in all respects with the pertinent provisions of 

Title I of the National Industrial Recovery Act, including, without 

limitation, subsection (a) of Section 7 and subsection (b) of Section 

10 thereof. 

The Institute of Dyers and Printers is representative of the Rayon 

and Silk Dyeing and Printing Industry, and the bylaws of this association provide no inequitable restrictions to membership. 

The Code is not designed to 1?ermit monopolies or to eliminate or 

oppress small enterprises, and w1ll not operate to discriminate against 

them, and will tend to effectuate the policy of Title I of the National 

Industrial Recovery Act. 

Accordingly, I hereby recommend the approval of the Code of 

Fair Competition for the Rayon and Silk Dyeing and Printing 

Industry. 

Respectfully, 

HUGH s. JOHNSON' 

Administrator. 
CODE OP FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

RAYON AND SILK DYEING AND PRINTING 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 Rayon and Silk Dyeing and Printing Industry, and shall be the standard of fair competition for such industry and shall be binding upon every concern engaged therein. 

ARTICLE II-DEFINITIONS 

1. The term " industry " as used herein shall include the dyeing, 

finishing, bleaching, mercerizing, weighting, printing, or other processing of rayon, silk, or of any mixture of the same, or of any 

mixture of goods containing primarily silk or rayon, either in the 

piece or in the yarn, in the United States, but shall not include concerns (1) engaged in the weaving of cotton and/or rayon and whose 

operations are required to be under the Cotton Textile Code, or 

(2) primarily equipped for, and primarily engaged in, finishing 

cotton woven fabrics who may also be engaged in finishing rayon 

and/or other synthetic fibre fabrics, and shall not include concerns, 

not members of the Institute, who may be engaged in the dyeing, 

finishing, bleaching, mercerizing, or other processing of rayon and/or 

other synthetic fibres in the yarn. Provided that any concern which 

is a member of the Institute and tngaged in the processing of rayon 

and/or other synthetic fibres in the yarn, shall, as to such yarn 

processing, be goYerned as to competitive practices by the supplementary Code of Fair Practice, to be approved for the textile 

processing industry. 

2. The term "rayon" as used herein shall include any synthetic 

fibre made from cellulose. All provisions relating to rayon shall 

apply to synthetic textiles made from cellulose acetate or any other 

substance. 

3. The term " concern " as used herein is defined to mean any one 

now or hereafter engaged or engaging in this industry as individual, 

partnership, firm, corporation, or otherwise (and shall include 

therein proprietor , partners, officers, or directors when lawfully 

representing a concern). 

4. The term "employee" as used herein shall include anyone 

engaged_ in ~he indu_ try in any capacity, receiving compensation 

for sernce~, 1rrespecbve of the nature or n1ethod of payment of such 

compensatwn. 

5. The term productive employee ' as used herein shall include 

all employees except engineers, electricians, machinists, firemen, office 

staff, maintenance and transportation crews, and watchmen. 

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6. The term "productive machinery " as used herein shall include 

only print machines, weighting units~ dyeing equipment, and screen 

printing tables. 

7. The term "service" and/ or "process" and/or " operations" 

as used herein shall include dyeing, finishing, mercerizing, bleaching, weighting, printing, engraving (when done by ::my concern in 

its own plants), or any other work, labor, or services done by any 

concern. 

8. The term "Institute" as used herein shall mean the Institute 

of Dyers and Printers, a corporation not for pecuniary profit, organized and existing under the laws of the State of New Jersey. 

9. The term "Board of Trustees" as used herein shall mean the 

Board of Trustees of the Institute. 

10. The term " member of the industry " as used herein includes 

any concern as hereinbefore defined. 

11. The term " signatory of the Code " as used herein means any 

member of the industry who shall voluntarily agree in writing as 

prescribed in Article VIII, Section 3. 

12. The term" By-Laws" as used herein shall mean the by-laws of 

the Institute. 

13. The terms "President", "Act", and "Administrator" as used 

herein shall mean respectively the President of the United States, 

the National Industrial Recovery Act, and the Administrator of 

Title I of said Act. 

ARTICLE III-HoURs 

1. No employee other than executives, supervisors, and representatives shall be permitted to work more than 40 hours, in any one 

week, except as hereinafter provided. 

2. The hours of labor of engineers, electricians, machinists, firemen, maintenance and transportation crews, and watchmen, shall not 

be more than 48 hours in any one week, except in cases of emergency. 

Any emergency time in any plant shall be reported monthly to the 

Code Authority. 

3. The maximum. hours of labor for office staff in the Industry shall 

be an average of 40 hours per week in each period of six months; 

:provided, however, that no office employee shall work more than 48 

hours in any one week, except in cases of emergency. Any emergency time in any office shall be reported monthly to the Code 

Authority. 

4. No productive employee shall be permitted to work more than 

40 hours in any one week of plant operation as herein defined, nor 

more than 8 hours in any one day, provided that where productive 

employees are engaged in continuous chemical processes such as boiloff, bleaching, weighting, dyeing, or drying, where goods will be 

jeopardized by interruption, such employees may be required to 

work an additional 2 hours in any one day; provided further, that 

no productive employee c:hall work more than 48 hours in any week 

of plant operation, as herein defined. 

5. No concern shall operate any proclucti v.e machinery more than 

80 hours nor any plant in the Industry more than 96 hours in any 

week, begi.nning Monday at G: 00 A.M., and ending Saturday at 6: 00 
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A.M., except for the activities of office staff, engineers, electricians1 · 

machinists, firemen, maintenance, and watchmen. No plant shall 

be operated, except for the aforesaid activities, between Saturday 

at 6: 00 A.M., and l\ionday at 6: 00 A.M., nor on legal holidays. 

During such periods of the year as the Code Authority shall, from 

time to time, deternline as less-than-peak periods, the Code Authority 

may, subject to the right of appeal to the Administrator, fix a lesser 

number of hours pel.' week for plant operation, and during such 

periods no concern shall, except for the activities hereinbefore recited, operate any plant for more than the number of hours per 

week so fixed by the Code Authority. The Code Authority may 

modify the provisions hereof for plant operation in any week in 

which a legal holiday occurs, so as to permit employees to n1ake up 

the number of hours lost by reason of such legal holiday. 

6. Because of the seasonal character of the velvet business and 

notwithstanding the above sections, productive machinery used solely 

for the processing of velvet may be operated not to exceed120 hours 

in any one week, between Monday, 6 A.1L, to Saturday, 6 A.M., 

during an aggregate of six months in any calendar year, provided 

that prior notice be given to the Code Authority of the commence- ment and termination of the three-shift operation. These hours 

shall not be curtailed by the Code Authority during the calendar 

years 1934 ancl1935, and subsequently only upon notice to the plants 

affected, with the consent of the Administrator. Only such concerns 

which have heretofore or which shall within ten (10) days after 

the approval of this Code register with the Institute or the Code 

Authority as processors of velvet shall be entitled to the benefits of 

this Section, except with the approval of the Administrator. 

ARTICLE IV-'V AGES 

1. No male employee 18 years of age and over shall receive less 

than 45¢ per hour, nor shall any female employee (engaged in tasks 

not heretofore performed by a male in the plant in which such 

female may be employed) receive less than 35¢ per hour. Male 

employees under the age of 18 years shall receive not less than 80% 

of the prescribed 1ninimum. 

2. This Article establishes a minimum rate of pay, regardless of 

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

other basis. 

3. In no event shall any employer pay any employee a wage rate 

whi h will yield a less wage for a work week of 40 hours than such 

employee was receiving for the same class of work for a longer 

week prior to June 26, 1933. 

ARTICLE V-GENERAL LABOR PROVISIONS 

1. No person under 16 years of age shall be employed in the industry, nor anyone under 18 years of age at operations or occupations 

hazardou in nature or detrimental to health. 

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

free from the interference, restraint, or coercion of employers of 
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labor, or their agents, in the designation of such representatives or 

in 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 

his own choosing. 

4. Employers shall comply with the n1aximum hours of labor, 

minimum rates of pay, and other conditions of employment approved or prescribed ~y the President. 

5. Within each State this Code shall not supersede 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 reclassify employees or duties of occupations performed by employees so as to defeat the purposes of the Act. 

ARTICLE VI-A DMINISTRATION 

1. Further to effectuate the policies of the Act, the Board of 

Trustees, to be elected annually by the members of the Institute and 

by other signatories to this Code as hereinafter prescribed in Article 

VIII, is hereby designated, together with not more than three persons 

without vote and without cost to the Industry to be named by the 

Administrator, as a Code Authority, for the Industry. 

2. The Code Authority shall be the representative of the Industry 

in the administration and enforcement of this Code and shall have, 

in addition to the specific powers herein conferred, all general powers 

necessary to such administration and enforcement, including the 

right to delegate authority to committees of its own members or 

otherwise, subject at all times to the right of the Administrator to 

veto any action taken by it. Representatives designated by the 

Administrator shall be given :full opportunity to participate at all 

times in the activities of the Code Authority or committees thereof, 

as well as those of the Board of Trustees and the executive committees of the several divisions of the Institute. 

3. The Code Authority may from time to time present to the Administrator recommendations based upon conditions in the Industry 

as they may develop, which will tend to effectuate the operation of 

the provisions of this Code and the policies of the Act. Such recommendations, upon approval by the Administrator, shall have the 

same force and effect as any other provisions of this Code. 

4. The Code Authority shall cooperate with the Administrator in 

making investigations as to the changing and observance of any 

of the provisions of this Code at its own instance or on complaint 

of any member of the Industry and shall report its findings and 

recommendations to the Administrator. 

5. vVith a view to keeping the President informed as to the observance or nonobservance of this Code of Fair Competition, and 

as to whether the Industry is taking appropriate steps to effectuate 

the declared policy of the Act, each member of the Industry will 

furnish duly certified reports to the Code Authority hereinbefore 

provided, or to such agency or agencies as the Code Authority may 
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designate. These reports shall be in substance and in such form 

as the Code Authority may require, subject to the approval of the 

Administrator. The reports furnished as aforementioned shall be 

deemed confidential and shall not be disclosed except as part of general statistics for the Industry or a general part thereof, except where 

a violation of the Code is suspected and the Code Authority has 

authorized the disclosure in connection with an investigation thereof. Due to the seasonal nature of velvet processing, production figures shall be required from processors of velvet annually and not 

otherwise. 

6. Every member of the Industry shall furnish to any government 

agency or agencies, such statistical information as the Administrator or the Code Authority may, from time to time, deem necessary 

for the purposes recited in Section 3 (a) of the Act, and al!y reports 

and other information collected and compiled by the Code Authority, as heretofore provided, shall be transmitted to such government agencies as the Administrator may direct. 

7. The Institute is hereby constituted the agency of the Code Authority (a) to secure, distribute, and exchange statistical data: and 

information; (b) to conduct investigations under its direction; and 

! (c) to take such action from time to time as the Code Authority may 

direct. 

ARTICLE VII-PowERS oF THE CoDE AUTHORITY 

The Code Authority shall have the following duties and powers, 

to the extent permitted by the Act, subject to the right of the Administrator to veto any action taken by it. 

1. To designate representatives to act on a joint committee with 

representatives of any other code authority of a related industry, 

having reciprocal provisions in its code, to consider questions regarded by either code authority as of common concern with reference 

to the effectuation o£ the policies of the Act (including questions as 

to whether the operations of a given concern come within the jurisdiction of one of the other of the respective codes), and to take such 

action as they may jointly agree to be appropriate, Bubject to the 

veto of the Administrator. 

2. To empower the Institute to secure, distribute, and exchange 

price information, without, however, disclosing the name of the 

customer. 

Upon the request or direction of the Code Authority, all concerns 

shall promptly forward and file with the Institute such statistical 

data and information, which in its judgment may be necessary adequately to inform all concerns regarding market conditions, and also 

any such data and information as may be required for the supervision 

and operation of the Code of Ethics. 

3. To require each concern to file with the Institute a list of the 

prices thereafter to be quoted for each of the several services rendered 

by it. Concerns shall not quote or make prices other than those filed 

within ten days after filing with the Institute a modified list o£ 

prices. Any quotation of prices in violation of the provisions hereof 

hall be deemed a violation of this Code unless the Code Authority 

or the price committee thereof shall in advance have approved such 
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quotations. As, when, and if any concern shall file a modified list 

of prices, any other concern may tile for itself a new list of prices to 

become effective simultaneously with the modified list first filed. 

4. To establish or participate in the establishment of a Central 

Adjustment Bureau for the adjustment of all service claims by 

customers against concerns engaged in this Industry, and upon the 

establishment of such Bureau all claims shall be adjusted by said 

Bureau and not otherwise, except with the consent of the Code 

Authority, provided that no concern shall be deprived hereby of the 

right to sue in its own name on any claim. 

5. To install or cause to be installed throughout the Industry in 

the plant, books and records of each concern a uniform system or 

cost accounting 'vhich will result in obtaining by each concern and 

by the Institute the costs of production exclusive of any allowance 

for depreciation or obsolescence. 

· No concern shall sell below cost (exclusive of depreciation and 

obsolescence) as determined by the Code Authority and approved by 

the Administrator pursuant to the operation of the uniform system 

of cost accounting when installed and/or operating without the prior 

consent of the Code Authority. Prior to the installation of such 

cost-accounting system no member of the Industry shall sell below 

cost, as may be determ.ined by the Code Authority, subject to the 

approval of the Administrator. 

ti. To adopt a uniform contract which shall be the standard form 

of contract for services rendered by the Industry, subject only to 

such changes therein as 1nay from time to time be authorized by the 

Code Authority. Other standard forms of contract appropriate to 

respective divisions of the Industry may be adopted by these divisions, subject to the approval of the Code Authority. 

7. To appoint a committee to determine the classification of colors 

for dyeing and patterns for printing. Such clasEiification shall be 

the standards for the Industry and shall be observed by all concerns 

engaged in the Industry. 

8. To adopt, subject to the approval of the Administrator, a Code 

of Ethics to eliminate unfair competitive pra~tices. Such Code of 

Ethics, when adopted and approved, shall have the same force and 

effect as any other provisions of this Code. Such Code of Ethics 

shall provide that concerns, members of the Institute, engaged in the 

processing of rayon and/or other synthetic fibres· in the yarn, shall, as to such yarn processing, be governed as to competitive practices 

by the supplementary Code of :Fair Practice, to be approved for the 

Textile Processing Industry. 

9. To define, construe, or interpret the provisions of this Code. 

ARTICLE VIII 

1. Any concern in the Industry which accepts its share of the cost 

and responsibility as well as the benefits of such participation, may 

become a member of the Institute. No initiation or entrance fee shall 

be charged, but there shall be dues levied on such basis as may, 

from time to time, be fixed by the Board of Trustees thereof, subject 

to the veto of the Administrator. 
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Within the Institute, or Division thereof, each member concern, 

which shall have paid its dues in accordance with the Bylaws, 

shall be entitled to vote as follows: 

The average pay rolls for the three calendar or fiscal years of 

each member, as fixed by the Bylaws, shall be divided into multiples of $10,000, and each member shall have one vote for each such 

full multiple. If any member has an annual average pay roll of 

less than $10,000 he shall, nevertheless, be entitled to one vote. At 

any election of Trustees, voting shall be cumulative, as defined by 

the Statutes of New Jersey, provided that not more than one Trustee ~hall be elected from any one concern. If any member has an annual 

average pay roll of more than $1,000,000 he shall, nevertheless, be 

entitled to only one hundred votes. 

2. (a) Divisions composed of concerns interested in the processing 

or finishing of particular fabrics, or in a particular line of work, 

shall be organized within the Institute with the approval, or b.y the 

direction, of the Board of Trustees. Each such division shall, subject 

to the approval of said Board of Trustees, concern itself only with 

that branch of the Industry delegated to it. A concern may be a 

member of more than one Division and vote in each (such vote to 

be allocated among such Divisions as may be permitted by the 

Bylaws). 

(b) Each Division, for the purpose of administering the provisions 

of this Code, to secure adherence thereto, and otherwise to carry out 

within the Division the policies of the Act, shall, subject to the approval of the Board of Trustees, be governed by an executive committee of five. Four members of each executive committee shall be 

elected by the Division membership, as provided in Section 1 of this 

Article. The fifth member of each executive committee shall be 

appointed by the Board of Trustees; provided, however, that such 

appointee, or his concern, shall be a member of the Division, and that 

not more than one member of the committee shall be elected or 

appointed from any one concern. The Secretary of the Institute 

shall be the permanent secretary of each executive committee. 

(c) If a Division fails to perform its obligations as provided hereunder, the Board of Trustees shall proYide for the administration of 

this Code as if said Board of Trustees were the executive committee 

of the Division concerned, and upon the passage of a resolution by 

the Board of Trustees taking over such functions, the executive committee of said Division shall for all purposes cease to exist. Any 

such action of the Board of Trustees shall be subject to appeal to 

the Administrator. 

(d) In the event that with respect to the determination of costs 

a difference of opinion shall arise between an executive committee 

and the Board of Trustees, such difference of opinion shall be determined by arbitration as provided in the Bylaws by three arbitrators to be selected as follows: One arbitrator shall be selected 

by the executive committee, one arbitrator shall be selected by 

the Board of Trustees and the third arbitrator shall be selected 

by such original arbitrators, or, in default thereof by the President 

of the American Arbitration Association. ' 

If two or more division executive committees shall differ with 

each other and/ or with the Board of Trustees as to any matter em-
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braced in the preceding two paragraphs, or the next succeeding 

paragraph of this article, such difference of opinion shall be determined by one arbitrator to be selected by the Board of Trustees 

jointly with the division executive committees involved in such dl.fference of opinion. In the event of the failure to agree within five 

days upon such arbitrator, the same shall be appointed by the 

President of the American Arbitration Association. 

(e) In the event that any amendment of this Article is proposed 

by the Board of Trustees, the same shall be submitted to each of 

the division executive committees, and if any division executive 

committee fails to concur therein, the propriety of such proposed 

amendment shall be determined by arbitration, as provided in the 

By-laws by one arbitrator to be selected by the Board of Trustees 

jointly with the division executive committees. In the event of the 

failure to agree upon such arbitrator, the same shall be appointed 

by the President of the American Arbitration Association. 

(f) In order to prevent any inequalities that may arise in the 

functioning of this Section 2 and to effectuate the policies of Title I 

of the Act, the administration of each of the provisions hereof shall 

be subject to the veto of the Administrator. 

3. Members of the Industry who are complying with the requirements of the Code, and agTee in writing either individually, or 

through trade associations of which they are members to abide by 

the requirements of the Code, and to pay their pro rata share of the 

expense of administration thereof, shall be entitled to a vote in the 

election of the Board of Trustees, and participate in the nomination 

of candidates for election, on the same basis as a member concern, 

and to the benefits o:f the activities of the Code Authority and to 

make use of the N.R.A. Code insigna. Such nominations and elections shall be conducted under the supervision of the Code Authority 

so us to avoid any discrimination among members of the Industry. 

4. For the purpose of administering this Code, the Code Authority, 

subject to the veto of the Administrator, is authorized to charge 

each concern a percentage of the gross volume of business done by 

each such concern during the preceding calendar or fiscal year; and 

during the operation of this Code to make such further charges as 

may be found necessary. In the case of concerns which process 

exclusively the product of their own looms, the amount to be charged 

each concern shall be determined equitably by its pay roll in connection with operations under this Code. 

5. Such funds collected for the administration of this Code shall 

be deposited by the treasurer of the Institute in a special account 

and used only for defraying the expenses of administration thereof, 

for the reimbursement of the Institute and for such expenses as may 

hereafter be incurred in complying with conditions of this Code. 

ARTICLE IX 

If, ]n the case of complaint andjor dispute on any matter affecting 

the administration of the Code, including a dispute as to the accuracy 

of any information furnished pursuant to the provisions of this 

Code, a concern shall fail or refuse to cooperate with Code Authority, 

the Administrator, on the request of the Code Authority, may ap-
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point a certified public accountant who shall have the power to view 

the relevant books of accounts, records, and files of any concern. 

No such information shall be revealed to anyone but the members of 

the staff of the Administration and/or the Administrator. If such 

investigation defined as aforesaid shall result in a determination that 

a signatory of the Code was not complying with the provisions of 

this Code, the cost of such investigation shall be borne and paid for 

by such member of the Industry. 

ARTICLE X 

No concern engaged in the printing of any fabrics in this Industry 

shall prepare, engrave, or print, or submit to an engraver or printer 

for engraving or printing, any pattern or design which shall not 

previously have been registered iD the United States Patent Office 

or in any other office or bureau approved by the Board of Tru -tees. 

The Board of Trustees is hereby empowered by resolutions to be 

adopted, to adopt all administrative measures necessary to effectuate 

this provision and define and limit the same. 

ARTicLE XI 

1. Each concern shall register with the Code Authority an inventory of its productive machiner:r as defined in the Code in place as of 

December 1, 1933, or then under contract but not installed, such 

inventory to be duly certified to as to its completeness and correctness. 

2. On and after January 1, 1934, each concern shall file a report 

monthly with the Institute, setting forth any installation of additional productive machinery (new or second-hand) as defined in this 

Code installed by it, and specifying the extent to which such installation is for the replacement of similar productive machinery and an 

explanation of the same, all duly certified. 

3. After the effective date hereof, each concern, prior to the installation of productive machinery as defined in this Code not theretofore contracted for, except for such replacement, shall file application with the Institute for transmission through the Code Authority 

to the Administrator, stating the circumstances of and the reasons 

for such installation and shall secure a certificate from the Administrator that such installation will be consistent with effectuating the 

policy of Title I of. the Act during the period of the emergency. 

4. The Code Authority shall examine into such application for 

such certificate and the facts as to the circumstances of and the 

reasons for such proposed installation and shall transmit to the Administrator such application with any statement submitted by the 

applicant, together with its report of such examination of the facts 

and with its recommendation as to the granting or withholding by 

the Administrator of such certificate to such applicant. Action 

by the Administrator inconsistent with such recommendation shall 

be taken only after notice to the Code Authority. 

5. Nothing in Sections 3 and 4 of this Article shall apply to 

velvet proce sing machinery during the calendar 3rear 1934, and thereafter the Code Authority may make such sections applicable only 

after due notice to all concerns affected. All reports called for by 
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this Article shall be deemed confidential and shall not be disclosed 

except as part of general statistics for the industry or a general 

part thereof or, when necessary, in connection with an application 

under Section 3, hereof, except by order of the Administrator. 

ARTICLE XII-MoniFIC TIO~ 

1. This Code and all the provisions thereof are expressly made 

subject to the right of the President, in accordance with the provisions of subsection (b) of Section 10 of the Act, from tirne 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, but the right of the Institute, or any member of the Industry, 

to object thereto is reserved. 

2. Such of the provisions of this Code as are not required to be 

included therein by the Act may, upon the application of or notice 

to the Institute and with the approval of the President be modified or 

eliminated in such manner as may be indicated by the needs of the 

public, by changes in circumstances, or by experience ; all the provisions of this Code, unless so modified or eliminated, shall remain in 

effect until the expiration date of Title I of the Act. 

3. In order to enable the Industry to conduct its operations subject 

to the provisions of this Code, and with those dealing with the Industry and otherwise to effectuate the purpose of Title I of the Act, supplementary provisions of this Code or additional codes may be submitted from time to time for the approval of the President andjor 

this Code may be amended or modified with the approval of the 

President. 

ARTICLE XIII-MONOPOLIES 

No provision of this Code shall be so applied as to permit monopolies or monopolistic practices, or to eliminate, oppress, or discriminate against small enterprises. 

ARTICLE XIV-EFFECTIVE D .ATE 

This Code shall become effective immediately on its approval by 

the President. 

Approved Code No. 172. 

Registry No. 230-07. 

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