Approved Code No. 476 Registry No. 233-10 

NATIONAL RECOVERY ADMINISTRATION 

CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

HATTERS' FUR CUTTING 

INDUSTRY 

AS APPROVED ON JULY 3. 1934 

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Approved Code No. 476 

CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

HATTERS' FUR CUTTING INDUSTRY 

As Approved on July 3, 1934 

ORDER 

CoDE OF F AIR CoMPETITION FOR THE HATTERS' FuR CuTTING 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 tTune 16, 1933, for approval of a Code of 

Fair Competition for the I-Tatters' Fur Cutting Industry, and a 

hearing having been duly held thereon and the annexed report on 

said Code, containing findings with respect thereto, having been made 

and directed to the President: 

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

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

pursuant 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 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, subject however, to the 

following conditions: 

1. That the provisions of this Code shall be in full force and effect-

:for a period of ninety (DO) clays from the effective date hereof. 

Prior to the expfration of aid period the Code Authority shall make 

recommendations to the Administrator in regard to the continuance 

or amendment of any or all provisions of this Code. 

HUGH s. JOHNSON, 

Adm.inistrator for I ndustrial R ecovery. 

Approval recommended : 

SoL A. Ros ENBLATT, 

Division Admhiist1·ator. 

,,r A HINGToN, D.C., 

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REPORT TO THE PRESIDENT 

The PRESIDENT, 

The White House. 

Srn: The Public Hearing on the Code of Fair Competition :for the 

Hatters' Fur Cutting Industry as proposed by Hatters' Fur Cutters 

Association of the U. S. A., was conducted in the Commerce Building, 

1Vashington, D.C. on April 19, 1934. 

Every person who requested an appearance was fairly heard in 

accordance with regulations of the National Recovery Administration. The Code has the approval of the Industrial and Labor Advisory Boards of the National Recovery Administration and of the 

Legal Division. The Code Com111ittee, upon authorization of the 

Association, has also given assent to the final draft of the Code on 

behalf of the Industry. 

The Industry, as defined in the Code, includes the manufacturing, 

selling and distributing by manufacturers of hatters' furs, both blown 

and unblown, for any purposes for which hatters' fur can be used. 

The raw material of the Industry consists mainly of imported hare 

and rabbit skins, which skins are processed to give the fur fibre felt- ing qualities. The fur fibre is then cut a way from the skin, packed 

and sold to the maufacturers of fur felt hat bodies. This Industry 

is entirely isolated from other industries processing fur, principally 

because this Industry performs no real dressing, tanning, or dyeing 

operation in any state of its manufacture, and it therefore does not 

require the type of skilled labor employed in the other fur manufacturing industries. In another sense, its isolation is also caused by 

the fact that eighty to ninety per cent of its product is sold to a 

single cl::iss of customers, the aforesaid manufacturers of fur felt hat 

bodies. Ninety per cent of the Industry is located within a radius of 

150 miles o:f New York City, and the hat manufacturing center of 

Danbury, Connecticut, contains fifty per cent of the Industry. 

The number of concerns engaged · in this Industry in 1933 was 

thirty-five, which concerns e111ploye.cl a total of approximately 2,000 

employees. The number of employees at the end of 1933 represented 

an increase of approximately fifteen per cent over the number in early 

1933. This reemployment was caused largely by the operation o:f the 

President's Reemployn1ent Agreement. Fromw the figures of years 

prior to 1929 as compared with 1933, it would seem that although the 

employers have suffered a substantial decrease in dollar volume of 

business, employment decreased only fractionally in the Industry. 

The dollar volume of sales in 1929 was over $18,000,000 while in 1933 

the volume of business was approximately one-third of that. 

The submitting A sociation has been organized for thirty-five years 

and has given evidence of being properly equipped to assist in the 

administration of this Code. It represents approximately eighty per 

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cent of the number of manufacturers in the United States and 

approximately ninety-five per cent of the Industry by volume of 

business and number of employees. 

RESUME OF THE CODE 

Article I gives the purpose of the Code. 

Article II sets forth certain definitions. 

Article III contains the maximum hour provisions of the Code. 

Article IV establishes the minimum wage rates for employees o:f 

the Industry. 

Article V sets forth general labor provisions. 

Article VI provides for the organization of the Code Authority 

and defines its powers and duties. 

Article VII defines trade practices which are unfair and shall be 

eliminated. 

Article VIII provides for modification of the Code. 

Article IX states that tli.e Code shall not permit monopolies. 

Article X deals with price increases. 

Article XI specifies the effective date. 

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 

removal of obstructim1s 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 united action of labor and management 

under adequate governmental sanctions and supervision, by eliminating unfair competitive practice, by promoting the fullest pos8ible utilization of the present productive capacity of industries, 

by avoiding undue restriction of production ( except as n1ay be temporarily required), by increasing the consumption of industrial and 

agricultural products through increasing purchasing power, by reducing and relieving 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 industr;y. 

( 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 Secbon 10 thereof; and that the applicant 

association is an industrial association truly representativ~ of the 

aforesaid industry; and that the said association imposes no inequitable restrictions on admission to membership therein. 

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

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

sn1all 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 the Code has been approved. 

Respectfully, 

JULY 3, 1934 . 

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HuaH S. JOHNSON, 

Ad1ninist1·ator. 
CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION FOR THE HATTERS' FUR 

CUTTING INDUSTRY 

ARTICLE I-PURPOSES 

To effect the policies of Title I of the National Industrial Recovery Act, this Code is established as a Code of Fair Competition 

for the Hatters' Fur Cutting Industry, and its provisions shall be 

the standards of fair competition for such Industry and be binding 

upon every member thereof. 

ARTICLE II-DEFINITION 

SECTION 1. The term "Hatters' Fur Cutting Industry", or the 

term "Industry" as used herein, includes the manufacturing, selling 

and/ or distributing by manufacturers of hatters' furs, both blown 

and unblown, for any purposes for which hatters' fur can be used, 

and such related branches or subdivisions as may from time to time 

be included under the provisions of this Code. 

SECTION 2. The term " member of the Industry ", as used herein, 

includes any individual, partnership, as ociation, corporation, or 

other form of enterprise engaged in the Industry, either as an employer or on his or its own behalf. 

SECTION 3. The term "employee", as used herein, includes anyone 

engaged in the industry in any capacity, receiving compensation for 

his services, irrespective of the nature or method of payment of such 

compensation, except a member of the Industry. 

SECTION 4. The term "employer", as used herein, includes anyone 

by whom any such employee is compensated or employed. 

SECTION 5. The term "President", "Act", and "Administrator", 

as used herein shall mean respectively the President of the United 

States, the National Industrial Recovery Act, and the Administrator 

for Industrial Recovery. 

SECTION 6. The term "Association" as used herein shall mean 

the Hatters' Fur Cutters Association of the U.S.A. 

ARTICLE III-HouRs OF LABOR 

SECTION 1. No employee shall be permitted to work in excess. of 

forty ( 40) hour in any one week or eight (8) hours in any twentyfour (24) hour period, except as herein otherwise provided. 

SECTION 2. The provisions of this Article shall not apply to outside 

salesmen or to persons employed exclusively in a managerial or 

executive capacity who earn regularly thirty-five ($35.00) dollars or 

more per week. 

SECTION 3. Watchmen shall not b pern1itted to work in excess 

of eighty-four (8.J:) hours in any two week period; provided that 

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watchmen shall not be employed :for direct labor on manufacturing 

operations. 

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

five (5) days in any even (7) day period. 

SE TION 5. No employer shall knowingly permit any employee to 

work for any time which, when added to the tin1.e spent at work 

for another employer or employers in this industry, exceeds the 

maximum permitted herein. 

SECTION 6. Any employer who does the work of a manufacturing 

or production employee shall be subject to the provisions of this 

Code as to hours of labor. 

SECTION 7. The use of foremen on productive operations shall be 

:investigated by the Code Authority, and it shall make recommendations to the Administrator with respect to the regulations of such 

use, which upon his approval, after such notice and hearing as he 

may provide, shall become binding provisions of this Code. 

ARTICLE IV-WAGES 

SECTION 1. No employee shall be paid less than at the rate or 

thirty-five (35) cents per hour, except as herein otherwise provided. 

SECTION 2. No person employed in clerical or office work shall be 

paid at less than the rate of fourteen dollars($14.00) per week. 

SECTION 3. This article establishes a minimum rate of pay which 

shall apply, irrespective of whether an employee is actually com.pensated on a time-rate, piecework, or other basis. 

SECTION 4. There shall be an equitable adjustment of all wages 

above the minimum, and to that encl, within sixty (60) days from the 

approval of this Code, the Code Authority shall submit for the 

approval of the Aclministrator a proposal for adjustment in emiskilled and skilled wages above the minimum. Upon approval by 

the Administrator, after such notice and hearing as he may prescribe, 

such pro po ·al shall be a part of this Code; provided, however, that in 

no event hall hourly rates of pay be reduced. 

SECTION 5. A person who ·e earning capacity is limited b2cause of 

age or phy ical 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 Authority designated by the United 

States Department of Labor a certificate authorizing his employment at such wage. and for such hours as sh all be stated in the certificate. Each employer shall file monthly with the Code Authority a 

list of all ·uch per on employed by him . howing the wage paid to, 

and the maximum hours of work for such ernplo. ee. 

SECTION G. Female employees perfo ·ming substantially the same 

work a male employees shall receive the same rate of pay as male 

employees. 

SECTION 7. The problem of learner · in the Indus,Ty shall be studjed by the Code Authority and recommen-:lations made to the Acuninistrator, which upon his approval, after such notice and hearing as 

he may ·pecify, shall become binding provision of this Code. 

(a) The number of learners employed by a member shall be limited to five ( 5%} per cent of the total number of employees engaged 

in manufacturing operations, except in special in tances as may be 
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determined by the Code Authority, subject to the approval of the 

Administrator; provided, however, that each n1.ernber may employ at 

least one learner. 

(b) The minimum wage for learners shall be ten ($10.00) dollars 

a week for their first two weeks in the Industry, and thereafter they 

shall receive an increase of one ($1.00) dollar per week until they 

reach the minimum wage. 

( c) No person shall be considered a learner for longer than his 

first five (5) week of employment in the Industry. Any time 

worked by a learner in the Industry shall be deemed a part of such 

learner's period of five (5) weeks, whether such tin1.e is worked continuously, or in more than one factory, or for 1nore than one 

employer, or at more than one kind of operation. 

ARTICLE V-GENERAL LABOR Pi.WVISIONS 

SECTION 1. No person under sixteen (16) years of age shall be 

employed in the Industry. No person under eighteen ( 18) years of 

age hall be employed at operations or occupations which are hazardous in nature or dangerous to health. The Code Authority shall 

submit to the Administrator before August 1, 1934 a list of such 

operations or occupations. In the event of a claim_ of alleged violation of this section, an employer shall be deemed to have complied 

with the provisions of this section if he shall have on file and 

shall submit a certificatB of age issued by the duly authorized department of the State in which the employer operates, showing the age 

of the employee to be no less than the age required by this section. 

SECTION 2. (a) 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 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. 

(b) 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, and 

( c) Employer:" shall con1ply with the maximum hours of labor, 

minimum rates of pay, and other conditions of employment approved 

or prescribed by the President. 

SECTION 3. No e1nployer shall reclassify employees or duties of 

occupations performed for the purpose of defeating the provisions 

of the Act or of this Code. 

SECTION 4. \Vithin SL"\:ty (GO) clays after the effective elate of this 

Gode, the Code Authority shall appoint a committee to cooperate with 

the United States Public Health Service and a committee appointed 

by the Conference of State and Provincial Health Authorities of 

North America, in formulating and recommending for the approval 

of the Administrator, minimum standards of cleanliness, maintenance 

of equipment, and other sanitary and health safeguards. Upon the 

approval of such standards by the Administrator, members of the 

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Indu try shall conform with such minimum standards, provided, however, that nothing contained in this section shall relieve any member 

of the Industry from complying with any state or local laws, regulation or ordinances, neither prior to the formulation and approval of 

such standards, nor thereafter, if the requirements of such law- , regulations or ordinances are more stringent than the minimum standards 

approved by the Administrator pur uant to the foregoing provision. 

In addition to the foregoing, each employer shall provide for the 

safety of employees during the hours and at the places of their em- ployment. Standards of safety shall be submitted by the Code Authority to the Administrator within six ( 6) months after the effective date of this Code. SECTION 5. No provision in this Code shall supersede any law 

within any State which imposes more stringent requirements on employers as to age of employees, wages, hours of work, or as to safety, 

health, or sanitary conditions, or insurance, or fire protection, or 

general working conditions, than are imposed by this Code. 

SECTION 6. All employers shall post and keep posted copies of this 

Code in conspicuous places accessible to all employees. Every member of the Industry shall comply with all rules and regulations relative to the posting of provisions of Codes of Fair Competition which 

may from time to time be prescribed by the Administrator. 

ARTICLE VI-ORGANIZATION, POWERS AND DUTIES OF 

THE ConE AUTHORITY 

SECTION 1. A Code Authority is hereby constituted to cooperate 

with the Administrator in the administration of the Code as follows: 

(a) Seven (7) members to be selected by the Association. 

(b) One (1) member to represent members of the Industry unaffiliated with the Association, selected in a manner to be approved 

by the Admini trator. 

( c) In addition to the above, three (3) members, without vote, may 

be appointed by the Administrator to serve for such terms as he may 

specify one of whom may be appointed by the Administrator upon 

nomination by the Labor Advisory Board. 

SECTION 2. The Code Authority may appoint its own officers and 

einployee and, except as herein provided prescribe, subject tn the 

approval of the Administrator, rules, regulations and By-Laws for 

its procedure and the conduct of its business and affairs. 

SECTION 3. Each trade or industrial association directly or indirectly participating in the selection or activities of the Code 

Authority shall (1) impose no inequitable restrictions on membership, and (2) submit to the Administrator true copies of its ar-ticles 

of a sociation, by-laws, regulations, and any amendments when made 

thereto, together with such other information as to membership, 

organization and activities as the Administrator may deem ll'jC2ssary 

to effectuate the purpo es of the Act. 

SE TION 4. In order that the Code Authority shall at all times be 

truly representative of the Indu try and in other respects comply 

with the provi ions of the Act, the Administrator 111.ay provide ,such 

hearing as he 1nay deem proper; and thereafter if he shall find that 

the Code Authority is not truly r pre entative or doi:-'.s not in 0ther 

respects comply with the provi ions of the Act, may require an 

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appropriate modification in the method of selection of the Cocle 

Authority. 

SECTION 5. Nothing contained in this Code shall constitute the 

members of the Code Authority partners for any purposes. Nor 

shall any member of the Code Authority be liable in any manner to 

anyone for any act of any other member, officer, agent or employee 

of the Code Authority. Nor shall any member of the Code 

Authority exercising reasonable diligence in the conduct of his duties 

hereunder, be liable to anyone for any action or omission to act 

under the Code, except for his O"\\n willful malfeasance or nonfea ance. SECTION 6. If the Administrator shall at any time 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 su pended to afford an opportunity for 

investigation of the merits 0f uch 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 (30) days' notice to him of intention 

to proceed with such action in its original or modified form. 

SECTION 7. Subject to such rules and regulations as may be issued 

by the Administrator, the Code Authority shall have the following 

powers and duties, in addition to those authorized by other provisions of this Code. 

(a) To in ure execution of the provisions of this Code and to 

provide for the compliance of the industry with the provisions of 

the Act. 

(b) To adopt by-laws and rules and reg11lations for its procedure. 

( c) To establish a Trade Practice Complaints Committee, or Committees, which shall receive complaints of violations of the trade 

practice provisions of this Code, 1nake. investigations thereof and 

take such further action as may be neces ary in accordance with rules 

and regulations prescribed by the Administrator. 

( d) To obtain from members of the Industry through a Confidential Agency such information and r eport as are required for 

the admini tration of the Code. In addition to information required 

to be submitted to the. Code Authority, members of the industry 

subject to this Code shall furnish such stati tical information as the 

Administrator may deem nece sary for the purpo es recited in Section 3 (a) of the Act to such Federal and State agencies as he may 

designate; provided that nothing in thi.:.i Code, ·hall relieve any member of the industry of any exiting obligations to furni h report. to 

any Government agency. No individual report shall be disclosed to 

any other member of the indu try or any other party except to uch 

other Governmental agencie 0 as 1nay be. directed by the Administrator. 

(e) To u e such trade association and other ao-encie a · it leems 

proper for the carrying out of an3 of its ac'-ivities proYided for 

herein, provided that nothing herein shall relieve the Code Authority 

of its dutie or respon ibilities tmcler thi · Code, and that such tra<le 

as ociation and agencies hall at all times be ·ubject to and comply 

with the provisions hereof. 

( f) To investigate the importation of competitiYe articles into the 

United States on such terms or under snch conditions as to ren ler 
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ineffective or seriou ly endanger the maintenance of the Code, and 

act a the agency for making complaint in respect thereof to the 

Pre ident on behalf of the Indu tr . 

(g) To recommend to the Administrator uniform terms of sale 

which upon apprO",al by the Aclmini trator hall become binding 

provi ion of this Code. 

(h) To r ecomn1end to the Administrator any action or measures 

deemed advi able, including further fair-trade practice provi ions 

to govern member of the Indu tr. in their relation with each other 

or with other indu tries· mea ure for indu trial planning and 

tabilization of em plo3 ment · and including modifications of this 

Code which hall become effective as part hereof upon approval 

by the Administrator after ·uch notice and hearing as he may specify. 

(i) To appoint a Trade Practice Committee which shall meet with 

the Trade Practice Committee appointed under uch other codes as 

may be related to the indu try for the purpose of formulating fair 

trade practice to govern the relationship ootween employers under 

thi Code and under such other codes to the end that such fair trade 

practices may be proposed to the Administrator as amendn1ents to 

this Code and such other Codes. 

SECTION 8. It being found nece ary to support the Administration of this Code, in order to effectuate the policy of the Act and to 

maintain the standards of fair competition established hereunder, 

the Code Authority is authorize-el: 

(a) To incur such reasonable obligations as are necessary and 

proper for the foregoing purposes, and to meet such obligations 

out of funds which shall be held in trust for the purpo e of the Code 

and rai eel a hereinafter provided ; 

(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 

purpose , and 

2. An equitable basis upon which the funds neces ary to support 

such budget hall be contributed by all members of the Indu try entitled to the benefits accruing fron1 the maintenance of such standards; and the admini tration thereof; 

(c) After such budget and ba i of contribution have been apprm-ed by the Administrator, to determine and collect equitable 

contributions a above set forth. and to that end if neces arj, to 

in titute legal proceedings therefor in its own name. 

SECTION 9. Each member of the Industry shall pay his or its equitable contribution to the expen es of the maintenance of the Code 

Authority, determined a hereinabove provided, and subject to rules 

and r egulations pertaining thereto is ued by the Administrator. 

Only members of the Indu try complying with the code and contributing to the expenses of its ad1nin.i tration as hereinabo,e provided 

shall be entitled to participate in the selection of members of the Code 

Authority or to receive the benefit of any of its voluntary activities. 

SECTION 10. The Code Authority hall neither incur nor pay any 

obligation in exce s of the amount thereof as estimated in its approved budget, except upon approval of the Administrator· and no subsequent budget hall contain any defi ciency item for expenditure in 

excess of prior budget estimate except tho ·e which the Administrator 

shall have so approved. 
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SECTION 11. There shall be established an Industrial Relations 

Comn1ittee for the Industry, which shall consist of an equal nun1ber 

of representatives of employers and employees and an impartial 

chairman. The Administrator shall appoint such impartial chairman upon the failure of the committee to select one by agreenient. 

If no truly representative labor organization exists, the employee 

members of such board may be n0111inated by the Labor Advisory 

Board of the N.R.A. and appointed by the Administrator. The employer repre entative shall be chosen by the Code Authority. Such 

committee shall deal with complaints and disputes relating to labor 

in accordance with rules and regulations issued by the Administrator. 

The Industrial Relations Committee may establish such divisional, 

regional, and local industrial adjustment agencies as it may deem 

desirable, e.ach of which shall be constituted in like manner as the 

Industrial Relations Committee. 

ARTICLE VII-TRADE PRACTICE RULES 

For all purposes of the Code the acts de-scribed in this Article shall 

con_stitute unfair practices. Any member of the Industry who shall 

directly, or indirectly through any officer, employee, agent or representative, knowingly use, employ or permit to be employed, any such 

unfair practices shall be guilty of a violation of the Code. 

(a) Inaccurate .Adve1·tising.-No member of the Industry shall 

use advertising ( whether printed, radio, display or of any other 

nature) or other representation which is misleading or inaccurate in 

any material particular or in any way misrepresents any commodity 

(including its use, trademark, grade, quality, quantity, origin, size, 

substance, character, nature, finish, material content or preparation) 

or credit terms, values, policies, services, or the nature or form of the 

business conducted. 

(b) False Billing.-No member of the Industry shall knowingly 

withhold from, or insert in, any quotation or invoice any stat ement 

that makes it inaccurate in any material particular. 

(c) I naccurate Labeling.-No member of the Industry shall brand 

or mark or pack any commodity in any canner which tends to deceive 

or mislead purchasers with respect to the brand, grade, quality, qnantity, origin, size, material content or preparation of such commodity. 

(cl) I naccwrate Ref erence to Oonipetito1·s.- No member of the Industry shall use advertising or other representation which refers 

inaccurately in any material particular to any competitors, or their 

commodities, prices, values, credits, terms, policies or serYices. 

(e) Threat of L aw Suits.-No member of the Industry shall publish or circularize unjustified or unwarranted threats of legal proceedings which t end to or have the effect of harassing competitors 

or intimidating their cu tomers. 

(f) Secret Rebates.-No member of the Industry shall secretly offer or make any payment or allowance of a rebate, refund, commission, credit, unearned discount or excess allowances, whether in the 

form of money or otherwise, for the purpose of influencing a sale, 

nor shall a member extend to any customer any special service or 

privilege not openly extended to all customers of the same class, 

for the purpose of influencing a sale. 
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(g) Consignment or Memorandvxm Shipm,ents.-No member of 

the Industry or his agent shall ship or deliver any of the products 

of this Industry on what is known as "consignment" or "memorandum ' arrangement, except that a member of the industry may 

ship such products for selection or approval, upon condition that 

such products be returned, or shipped for return, within not more 

than three (3) days from its receipt by the con ignee. 

(h) Bribing E1npl,oyees.-No member of the industry shall give, 

permit to be given, or offer 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 busine s of the employer of such employee, or the principal of such agent, without the 

knowledge of such employer or principal. 

(i) Interf erence with Anothe1·'s Oontracts.-No member of the 

industry shall attempt to induce the breach of an existing contract 

between a competitor a·nd his customer, or source of supply; nor 

shall any such 1nember interfere with or obstruct the performance 

of such contractual duties or services. 

ARTICLE VIII-MomFICATION 

SECTION 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 time to 

time to cancel or modify any order, approval, license, rule, or regulation issued under Title I of said Act. 

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

to be included herein by the Act m,ay, with the approval of the 

Administrator, be moclitied or eliminated in such manner as 1na.y 

be indicated by the needs of the public, by changes in circumstances, 

or by experience. 

ARTICLE IX-MONOPOLIES 

No provision of this Code shall be so a pp lied as to pern1it monopolies or monopolistic practices, or to ·eliminate, oppress or discriminate against small enterprises. 

ARTICLE X-PRICE INCREASES 

Whereas the policy of the Act to increase _purchasing power will 

be made more difficult of consummation if prices of goods and services increase as rapidly as wages, it is recognized that price increase, 

except such as may be required to meet individual cost, should be 

delayed. But when made, such increase should, so far as possible, 

be limited to actual additional increases in the seller's cost. 

ARTICLE XI-EFFECTIYE DATE 

This Code shall become effective on the second Monday after its 

approval. 

Approved Code No. 476. 

Registry No. 233-10. 

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