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Registry No. 1009-1-02 

NATIONAL RECOVERY ADMINISTRATION 

AMENDMENT TO 

CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION I F 1 I 

FOR THE 

FRESH WATER PEARL BUTTON 

MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY 

AS APPROVED ON AUGUST 20. 1934 

WE DO OUR PARr 

UNITED STATES 

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WASHINGTON: 1934 

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Approved Code No. 310-Amendment No. 1 

AMENDMENT TO CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

FRESH WATER PEARL BUTTON MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY 

As Approved on August 20, 1934 

ORDER 

APPROVING AMENDMENTS oF CoDE OF FAIR CoMPETITION FOR THE 

FRESH WATER PEARL BuTTON MANUFACTURING 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, appro\ eel June 16, 1933, for approval of amendments 

to a Code of Fair Competition for the Fresh Water Pearl Button 

Manufacturing Industry, and hearings having been duly held 

thereon and the annexed report on said amendments, containing 

findings with respect thereto, having been made and directed to the 

President : · 

NO\V, 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 amendments and the Code as 

constituted after being amended comply in all respects with the 

pertinent provisions and will promote the policy and purposes of 

said Titl~ of said Act, and do hereby order that said amendments 

be and they are hereby approved, and that the previous approval 

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

in its entirety as amended; and do hereby 

FURTHER ORDER that said amendments shall become effective as part of the Code ten (10) days after the date hereof. 

HUGH S. JOHNSON, 

Aib!ninistrator fo1· I ndustrial R ecovery. 

Approval recommended : 

WILLIAM P. FARNSWORTH, 

Acting Division Adn~inistrator. 

WASHINGTON, D.C., 

August 20, 193!;. 

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REPORT TO THE PRESIDENT 

The PRESIDENT, 

The 1V hite H mtse. 

Sm: The Public Hearing on amendments to the Code of Fair 

Competition for the Fresh Water Pearl Button Manufacturing Industry, approved February 28, 1934, as proposed by the Code 

:Authority for this Industry was conducted on Monday, April 9, 1934, 

in the Mayflower Hotel, Washington, D. C. 

Each person who requested an appearance was fairly heard in 

public in accordance with the regulations of the National Recovery 

Administration. Present were representatives of the Code Authority 

for this Industry, and representative members of the Industry. 

Section 4 of Article IV, Wages, has been amended. Article V, 

General Labor Provisions, has been am.ended by the addition of a 

new Section 8. Section 12 of Al·ticle VII, Trade Practices, has 

been amended. 

The Deputy Administrator in his final report to me on said 

amendments 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 amendments 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 

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 eliminating unfair competitive practices, by promoting the fullest possible utilization of 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 tmemplopnent, by improving standards 

of labo1~, and by otherwise rehabilitating industry. 

(b) The Code as amended complies in all respects with the pertinent provisions of said Title o-f said Act, includin~ without limitation 

Subsw'tion (a) of Section 3, Subsection (a) of ;::;ection 7, and Sub3ection (b) of Section 10 thereof. 

(c) The Code empowers the Code Authority to present the aforesaid amendments on behalf of the Indu try as a. whole. 

(d) The amendments and the Code as amended are not designed to 

and will not permit monopolie or monopolistic practices. 

(e) The amendements and the Code as amended are not designed 

to and will not eliminate or oppres · small enterprises and will not 

operate to- discriminate again t them. 

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(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 

amendment. · 

For these reasons, these amendments have been approved. 

Respectfully, 

AUGUST 20, 1934:. 

llUGH 8. JoHNSON, 

Admi,nistrator. 
AMENDMENT TO CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION FOR 

THE FRESH WATER PEARL BUTTON MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY 

Article IV, Paragraph 4, is hereby amended to read as follows: 

4. No member of the Industry shall pay an employee a. lesser time 

rate than is required to provide the same earnings for the hourly work 

week herein established, than was received for that class of work by 

such employee for the longer full time work week prevailing as of 

July 1, 1933. ·All piecework rates shall be increased above the rates of 

July 1, 1933, so that earnings based upon piecework rate for the 

full time work week herein established shall not be less than was 

received for that class of work for the longer full time work week as 

of July 1, 1933. When new types (sizes or patterns) of products are 

produced by any member of the Industry, piecework rates to be paid 

for such work shall be arrived at on an equitable basis with the rates 

prevailing in that factory. 

Any member o-f this Industry may change an employee's method of 

compensation from a piece rate to a time rate, or from a time rate to 

a piece rate, but in no case shall any employee be deprived of any of 

the benefits received under the provisions of this Code, nor shall his 

full time weekly compensation be reduced by such change. No member of the Industry shall reclassify the duties or occupation of an 

employee so as to defeat the purposes of the Act or of this Code. · Article V is hereby am:ended by adding thereto a paragraph numbered 8, to read as follows : 

8. Any member of the Industry~ either an individual owner, Inember of a partnership or corporatwn, perfo-rming the duties of an 

employee shall be governed by the provisions of Articles III and V 

of this Code as amended. 

Article VII, paragraph 12, is hereby amended to read as follows: 

12. No member of the Industry shall grant any term of cash discount in excess of one per cent (1%) ten days, net thirty, E.O.M., 

with not exceeding five ( 5) days grace. Goods shipped on or after 

the twenty-fifth of a month may be billed as of the 1st of the following month. Members of the Industry may accept checks, less cash 

discount, if received postma.rked not later than the last day of grace. 

Approved Code No. 31()-Amendment No. L 

Registry No. 1009-1-02. 

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