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3 1262 08482 9273 endment No. 1 . Registry No. 1023-19 

NATIONAL RECOVERY ADMINISTRATION 

AMENDMENT TO 

C·ODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

SLATE INDUSTRY 

I A I • 

AS APPROVED ON JULY 3, 1934 

WE DO OUR PART 

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UNITED STATES 

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 

WASHINGTON: 1934 

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Approved Code No. 218-Amendment No. 1 

AMENDMENT TO CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

SLATE INDUSTRY 

As Approved on July 3, 1934 

ORDER 

APPROVING MonIFICATION OF CooE OF FAIR CoMPETITION FOR THE SLATE 

INDUSTRY 

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 approval of a modification 

to a Code of Fair Competition for the Slate Industry, and opportunity to be heard having been duly afforded all interested parties 

and the annexed report on said modification, containing findings 

with respect thereto, having been made and directed to the Pre ident: 

NOW, THEREFORE, on behalf of the President of the United 

States, I, Hugh S. Johnson, Administrator for Industrial Recovery, 

pur uant to authority vested in me by Executive Orders of the President, including Executive Order No. 6543-A, dated December 30, 

1933, and otherwise; do hereby incorporate, by reference, said annexed report and do find that said modification and the Code as 

constituted after being modified comply in all r pects with the 

pertinent provisions and will promote the policy and purposes of 

said Title of said Act, and do hereby order that said modification 

be and it is hereby approYed, and that the previous approval of said 

Code is hereby modified to include an approval of said Code in its 

entirety as modified. 

HuoH S. JoHNSoN, 

Administrator for Industrial Recovery. 

ApproYal recommended: 

BARTON w. MURRAY, 

Division Administratm·. 

WA III~GTON, D.C., 

July 3, 1934. 

11 00°- 20-16-34 (1) 
REPORT TO THE PRESIDENT 

,:'he PRESIDENT, 

T he White H ou8e. 

Srn: Under the Code o:f Fair Competition :for the Slate Industry, 

as approved on January 22, 1934, the Code Authority has submitted 

a modification to Article 7, Section 2, designed to empower the Code 

Authority to collect assessments :from all members o:f the Industry 

to provide :for the expenses o:f administering the Code. Under this 

modification, payment o:f such assessments will not be mandatory 

until the Code Authority has submitted and has had approved by the 

Administrator, a budget and plan o:f assessment. A provision of the 

modification :forbids the Code Authority from making expenditures 

in excess of their approved budget. These provisions replace the 

former provisions :for supporting the Code Authority through voluntary payments. 

FINDINGS 

The Deputy Administrator in his final report to me on said modification to said Code having found as herein set :forth and on the 

basis of all the proceedings in this matter : 

I find that: 

(a) The modification o:f said code and the Oode as modified are 

well designed to promote the policies and purposes of Title I of 

the National Industrial Recovery Act including the removal 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 of labor and management under adequate governmental sanction and supervision, by ~liminating unfair 

competitive practices, by promoting the fullest utilization of the 

the present productive capacity of industries, by avoiding undue 

restriction of production ( except as may be temporarily required), 

by increasing the consumption of industrial and agricultural products through increasing purchasing power, by reducing and relieving 

unemployment7 by improving standards of labor, and by otherwise 

rehabilitating industry. 

(b) The Code as modified complies in all respects with the pertinent provisions of said Title of said Act, including without limitation sub-section (a) of Section 3, sub-section (a) of Section 7 and 

sub-section (b) of Section 10 thereof. 

( c) The National Slate Association was and is an industrial association truly representative of the aforesaid Industry and that said 

association imposed and imposes no inequitable restrictions on admission to membership therein and consents to this modification. 

( cl) The modification and the Code as modified are not designed 

to and will not permit monopolies or monopolistic practices. 

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(er The modification and the Code as modified are not designed 

to and will not eliminate or oppress small enterpri es 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 

modification. 

For these reasons, therefore, I have approved this modification. 

Respectfully, 

JULY 8, 1934. 

HUGH 8. JOHNSON, 

Administrator. 
MODIFICATION TO CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION FOR 

THE SLATE INDUSTRY 

Modify Article VII, Section 2, by deleting paragraph ( e) and 

substituting in lieu thereof the following: 

ARTICLE VII-ADMINISTRATION 

Section 2, paragraph ( e). 

" ( e) 1. It being found necessary in order to support the administration of this code and to maintain the standards of fair cmnpetition established hereunder and to effectuate the policy of the Act, 

the Code Authority is authorized: 

"a. To incur such reasonable obligations as are necessary and 

proper :for the foregoing purposes and to meet such obligations out 

of funds which may be raised as hereinafter provided and which 

shall be held in trust for the purposes of the Code : 

"b. To submit to the Administrator for his approval, subject to 

such notice and opportunity to be heard as he may deem. necessary; 

( 1) an itemized budget of its estimated expenses for the foregoing 

purposes, and (2) an equitable basis upon which the funds necessary 

to support such budget shall be contributed by members of the 

industry; 

"c. After such budget and basis of contribution have been approved by the Administrator, to determine and obtain equitable contributions as above set forth by all members of the industry, and to 

that end, if necessary, to institute legal proceedings therefor in its 

own name. 

" (2) Each member of the industry shall pay his or its equitable 

contribution to the expenses of the maintenance of the Code Authority, determined as here.inabove provided, and subject to rules 

and regulations pertaining thereto issued by the Administrator. 

Only members of the industry complying with the Code and contributing to the expenses of its administration as hereinabove provided, shall be entitled to participate in the selection of n1.embers 

of the Code Authority or to receive the benefits of any of its voluntary activities or to make use of any emblem or insignia of the 

National Recovery Administration. 

" (3) The Code Authority shall neithe.r incur nor pay any obligation in excess of the amount thereof as estimated in its approved 

budget, except upon approval of the Administrator first obtained; 

and no s_ubsequent budget shall contain any deficiency item for expenditures in excess of prior budget estimates except those which 

the Administrator shall have so approved." 

Approved Code No. 218--Amendment No. 1. 

Registry No. 1023- 19. 

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