Approved Code No. 287-Amendment No. 6 Registry No. 599-33 

NATIONAL RECOVERY ADMINISTRATION 

AMENDMENT TO 

CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

GRAPHIC ARTS INDUSTRIES 

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AS APPROVED ON JULY 3, 1934 

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Approved Code No. 287-Amendment No. 6 

AMENDMENT TO CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

GRAPHIC ARTS INDUSTRY 

As Approved on July 3, 1934 

ORDER 

M o mFICATION OF CooE OF FAIR CoMPETITION FOR THE GRAPHIC ARTS 

INDUSTRIES 

An application having been duly made pursuant to and in full 

compliance with the provisions 0£ Title I of the National Industrial 

Recovery Act, approved June 16, 1933, £or approval 0£ an Appendix 

0£ the Playing Card National Product Group to the Code 0£ Fair 

Competition £or the Graphic Arts Industries, and hearings having 

been duly held thereon and the annexed report on said Appendix, 

containing finding with re pect thereto, having been made and 

directed to the President : 

NOW, THEREFORE, on behalf 0£ the President 0£ the United 

States, I , Hugh S. Johnson, Administrator £or Indu trial Recovery, pursuant to authority vested in me by Executive Order 0£ the President, including Executive Order No. 6543-A, dated December 30, 

1933, and otherwise.; do hereby incorporate by reference aid annexed 

report and do find that said Appendix complies in all respects with 

the pertinent provisions and will promote the policy and purpo es 

of said Title of said Act; and do hereby order that said Appendix be 

and it is hereby approved, as a modification 0£ aid Code, and that 

the previous approval 0£ said Code is hereby modified to include an 

approval of said Code in its entirety as modified. 

Approval recommended: 

GEORGE BUCKLEY' 

Division Ad1ninisfrator. 

w ASHINGTON, D.C. July 3, 1934. 

71728 °-8:!!J-ll-34 (1) 

HUGH s. JOHNSON, 

Administrator. 
REPORT TO THE PRESIDENT 

The PRESIDENT, 

The White House. 

Srn : This is a report on the proposed amendment to the Code of 

Fair Competition for the Graphic Arts Industries as approved by you 

on February 17, 1934. The proposed amendment is in the form of 

an Appendix to the Graphic Arts Code for the Playing Card 

National Product Group (No. E-9). A Public H earing was held on 

this proposed Appendix in the City of ,v ashington on March 16, 

1934, and full opportunity was given to all interested parties to 1 

appear. 

The propo ed Appendix consists of Admini trative Provisions and 

Fair Trade Practi e Provisions for the Playing Card National 

Product Group. 

The proposed Appendix represents an agreement by two conflicting 

interests of the industry, represented on the one hand by the United 

States Playing Card Company, which produces approximately sixty 

per cent ( 60%) of the total number of packs of playing cards sold 

in any fiscal year in the United State , and on the other, by the 

National Playing Card Association, which represent the remaining 

production of playing cards in the United States. Thus, the entire 

industry has aoTeed upon the provision of the proposed Appendix. 

The propo ed Appendix does not in any way affect the labor 

provi~ions of the Graphic Arts Code. 

The Deputy Administrator in hi final report to me on said 

amendment 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 amendment to said Code and the Code as amended are 

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

the National Industrial Recovery Act including the removal of 

ob tructions 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 trade groups, by inducing 

and maintaining united action of labor and management under ad - quate governmental anction and upervi ion, by eliminatino- unfair 

· mpctitive pra tic , by promotino- the fullest pos ible utilization f 

the present produ tive capacity of indu tries, by avoiding undue 

r tri tion of produ tion ( except as may be temporarily r quir d), 

by incr a ino- th con umption of indu trial and acrri ultural prodn t , through in r a ing purcha ·ing pow r, by redu ing and r lieving un mploym nt, by improving tandards of labor, and by othcrwi ·e r habilitating industry. 

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(b) The Cod a amende 1 complie 1n all r p with th pertln nt proYi i n f aid Title of . ail ct in ·lu lino with ut limitati n ub · ti n (a) f e ·tion . ub ecti n (a) of cti n 7 and 

ub ection (b) of c i n 10 th reof. The group ul mittin<Y this 

am n lm nt ,,a.· and i trul repre · ntatiYe of the aforesaid in lus ,ry. 

Th Tati nal Playing arcl A ._ ociation impo · <l and impos no 

inequitabl re tri tion on aclmi ion t member hip therein. 

( ) Th amendment and the Code a nm nded are n t de ·ianed 

to and will not permit monopoli or monop li tic practic . 

( d) The amendment and the Code a am nded are not de igned 

to an l will not eliminate r oppre~ mall enterpri e and will not 

operate t o di criminate aaain t them. 

( ) Tho e no·aged in other tep of the econ mic proce . have 

not been depri, ed of the right to be heard prior t o approval of 

·aid amendment. 

I believe the amendment to be fair to labor, to the con umer, and 

to the industry and for these reasons, ther efore, I approve this 

amendm nt. 

Re pectfully, 

J ULY 3, 1934. 

H GH S. JoH:NSON, 

Administrator. 
MODIFICATION OF CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION FOR 

THE GRAPHIC ARTS INDUSTRIES 

APPENDIX OF NATIONAL PRODUCT GROUP NO. N---9-PLAYING CARDS 

The provisions of this Appendix are applicable only to National 

Product Group No. E-9. 

ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 

(a) The Administrative agency for the Playing Cards National 

Pro luct Group shall be elected in accordance with methods of procedure to be approved by the Administrator, and shall be constituted 

as follows: 

1. Two (2) members shall be selected by an individual e tablishment or group of e tablishments whose sales represent fifty per cent 

( 50% ) or more of the total number of packs of playing cards sold 

in the preceding fiscal year in the United States. This percentage 

shall be determined from the records of the Internal Revenue Department's published reports on revenue tamps cancelled for the 

Government fiscal year. 

2. Two (2) members shall be selected by the other establishments 

in the Industry. 

3. Upon the request of any two (2) members of the administrative 

agency to the Coordinating Committee, the administrative agency 

shall submit a panel of four ( 4) nominees, from which the 

Coordinating Committee shall select one (1) to sit with the administrative agency as chairman in any proceeding for which the 

designation of such chairman has been requested, provided, that this 

shall not deprive any e tablishment of its right of appeal pur uant 

to the provisions of the Graphic Arts Code. 

(b) All proceedino-s of the administrative agency shall be in conformity with the provi ions of the by-laws of the admini trative 

agency and with the provisions of thi Code. 

l\fAINTEN ANCE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

( c) All playing cards shall be sold f.o.b. ars or equival nt. 

( d) The maximum cash discount: on hipm nts to all point ea t 

of Denver two per cent (2% ) ten (10) day , net thirty (30) days. 

On shipments made to all points Denv r and west, two p r nt 

(2 rc ) twenty (20) day , net forty-fiv ( 45) day , di count :ffe tive 

from date shipment 1 ave factory, whi h h uld be pror rly t rmed 

date of invoi e, pr vided, how ver, th admini trativ ag n y may 

ext nd the e p ri els in tho e ca es wh r u tom r are lo at d at a 

distance too gr at to che k invoi in p riod sp i:fi d. 

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(e) The administrative ao-ency m,ay adopt rules an l regulations 

for the setting up of a bureau for the r egi ·tration of exclusive de- io·ns or names, ubject to the appro al of the Administrator. 

(£) No pro, i ion of this Code relating to prices or terms of selling, hippina or marketin°·, shall apply to export trade or sales or 

shipments for export trade. 

Approved ode No. 287-A.mendment No. 6. 

Registry No. 599'----33. 

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