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NATIONAL RECOVERY ADMINISTRATION 

CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

CELLULOSE ACETATE 

YARN PRODUCING INDUSTRY 

AS SUBMITTED ON AUGUST 26, 1933 

REGISTRY No. 267-02 

The Code for the Cellulose Acetate Yarn Producing Industry 

in its present form merely reflects the proposal of the above-mentioned 

industry, and none of the provisions contained therein are 

to be regarded as having received the approval of 

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the National Recovery Administration 

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as applying to this industry 

UNITED STATES 

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 

WASHINGTON : 1933 

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APPLICATION TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR 

APPROVAL OF CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION FOR THE CELLULOSE 

ACETATE YARN PRODUCING INDUSTRY 

This application is made on behalf of the cellulose acetate yarn 

industry and particularly on behalf of the only manufacturers whose 

sole textile yarn product is cellulose acetate yarn. The undersigned manufacturers produce over 80% of the cellulose acetate yarn 

manufactured in this country and are two of the five domestic 

producers. 

The following proposed code is submitted in substitution for a 

proposed agreement under Section 4 (a) of Title I of the National 

Industrial Recovery Act submitted to the National Recovery Administration on July 18, 1933. The maximum hours of labor and .the 

minimum wages set forth in this proposed code have been adopted 

and made effective by the two producers signatory hereto. 

8194-33 

TENNESSEE EAsTMAN CoRPORATION, 

By P. S. WILcox, President. 

CELANESE CoRPoRATION oF AMERicA, 

By JOHN A. LAIBIN, Vice President. 

(1) 
CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION FOR THE CELLULOSE 

ACETATE YARN INDUSTRY 

To effectuate the policy of Title I of the National Industrial 

Recovery Act, during the period of the emergency, by reducing and 

relieving unemployment and improving the standards of labor, the 

follow ing provision are established as a code for the cellulose 

acetate yarn industry. 

I. A an inherent characteristic of the manufacture of cellulose 

acetate yarn is that production must be continuous, no limitation 

of hours of machinery can economically apply to the cellulose acetate yarn industry and permit the industry to survive. 

II. The term "cellulose acetate yarn industry", as used herein, 

is defined to mean the manufacture of synthetic yarns from cellulose a~eta te put up and packaged in forms suitable for the various consuming and fabri cating branches of the textile industry. 

III. The effective date of this oode shall be the day following its 

approval by the President. 

IV. The term" employees" as used herein shall include all persons 

employed in the conduct of the cellulose acetate yarn industry. The 

term "employers", as used herein, shall include all natural persons, 

partnership , associations, corporations, and trusts, including trustees in bankruptcy and receivers, who employ labor in the conduct 

of any branch of the cellulose acetate yarn industry. 

V. On and after the effective date hereof employers in the celulose 

acetate yarn industry shall operate on the following schedule of 

hours of labor and wages: 

(a) The maximum hours of labor for all employees, except those 

serving in executive, administrative, supervisory, outside sales and/or 

technical capacities, shall be forty per week, subject to the flexible 

provision that the average hours worked per week by any individual employee not exempt from this provision shall not exceed 

the maximum established when figured over a period of four weeks. 

In cases of emergency the maximum hours as applied to maintenance and repair crews may be extended for the time of the emergency only, in which latter event a record shall be made of the circumstances and reported to the agency hereinafter provided for in 

Article VIII. 

(b) Inasmuch as some manufacturers of this industry have already made some adjustments in hours and wages, and have recently 

raised rates of pay, and inasmuch as this code now proposes in 

la use (a) next preceding to establish a uniform practice of 40 hours 

maximum employment for employees, no employee, except those 

exempted in Clause (a) next preceding, shall after the effective date 

receive for the said 40-hour period of work less compensation than 

was received or would have been received by said employee for 48 

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hours of labor, as of May 1, 1933; and on and after the effective date 

the minimum wage which shall be paid by employers in the cellulose 

acetate yarn industry to any employee, except those exempted in 

Clause (a) next preceding, whether the wage is based upon proJuctive effort or efficiency or hourly rates, shall be at the rate of $1J.OO 

per week for 40 hours of labor, except apprentices during a period 

limited to six weeks shall be paid at the rate of 85% of the minimum 

wage specified herein. 

VI. No employer in the cellulose acetate yarn industry shall 

employ any minor under the age of sixteen years. 

VII. Employers shall comply with the requirements of Se.ction 

7 (a) of Title I of the National Industrial Recovery Act as follows: 

1. 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. 

2. 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. 

3. Employers shall comply with the maximum hours of labor, 

minimum rates of pay, and other conditions of employment, approved 

or prescribed by the President. 

VIII. The industry shall set up within itself an agency to cooperate with the Administrator in the administration and enforcement of this Code. 

IX. No amendment, supplement nor addition to this Code shall 

be effective unless assent thereto is given in writing by manufacturers 

producing at least 80% of the total domestic production of cellulose 

acetate yarn for the twelve months preceding the adoption of such 

amendment. Statistics on production shall be supplied by ea('h 

producer to the Administrator or any government agency designated 

by him. 

TENNESSEE EASTMAN CoRPORATION, 

By P. S. Wn.cox, Pres,ident. 

CELANESE CoRPORATION oF AMERICA, 

By JoHN A. LAIBIN, Vice President. 

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