Approved Code No. 194-Amendment No.2 Registry No. 210-01 

NATIONAL RECOVERY ADMINISTRATION 

AMENDMENT TO 

CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

BLOUSE AND SKIRT 

MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES 

AS APPROVED ON APRIL 2, 1935 

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Approved Code No. 194-Amendment No. 2 

AMENDMENT TO CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

BLOUSE AND SKIRT MANUFACTURING 

INDUSTRIES 

As Approved on Apri12, 1935 

ORDER 

APPROVING Al\'IENDMENT OF CoDE oF FAIR CoMPETITION FOR THE 

BLOUSE AND SKIRT MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES 

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 two amendments to a Code of Fair Competition for the Blouse and Skirt 

Manufacturing Industries, 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: 

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

States, the National Industrial Recovery Board, pursuant to authority vested in it by Executive Orders of the President, including 

Executive Order No. 6859, dated September 27, 1934, and otherwise, 

does hereby incorporate, by reference, said annexed report and does 

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 Title of said Act, and 

does hereby order that said amendments be and they are hereby 

approved, and that the previous approval of said Code is hereby 

amended to include an approval of said Code in its entirety as 

amended, such approval and such amendments to take effect twenty 

(20) days from the date hereof, unless good cause to the contrary 

is shown to the National Industrial Recovery Board before that 

time and the National Industrial Recovery Board issues a subsequent 

order to that effect. 

NATIONAL INDusTRIAL REcOVERY BoARD, 

By W. A. HARRIMAN, Administ1·ative Officer. 

Approval recommended: 

PRENTiss L. CooNLEY, 

Division Administrator. 

WASHINGTON, D. c., 

April 2, 1935. 

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REPORT TO THE PRESIDENT 

~he PREsiDENT, 

The White House. 

SrR: A public hearing was called on October 26, 1934, to discuss 

amendments to the Code of Fair Competition for the Blouse and 

Skirt Manufacturing Industries. The hearing subsequently adjourned to November 16, 1934, and to December 3, 1934, and again 

to December 17, 1934, at which date the amendments were properly 

heard. 

Following the hearing, the amendments were revised upon the 

basis of facts presented and in accordance with the suggestions of 

the various Advisory Boards, the Legal Division, and the Division 

of Research and Planning of the National Industrial Recovery 

Administration. Article III was amended by adding thereto a new Section, &-A, 

which provided for a wage differential for operators or ironers 

certified to be of very low productive capacity. 

Article III was further amended by adding thereto a new Section 9, which provides that a manufacturer or jobber shall be liable 

for any underpayment made to a contractor if claim for such underpayment is filed by such contractor within three weeks of the date 

following the customary accounting settlement period. 

In accordance with the counsel of the Legal Division, notices of 

Opportunity to be Heard will be printed and distributed in the 

same manner as notices of Public Hearing. A specified date is 

set forth in such notices, by which time objections and criticisms 

are to be received relative to these amendments. 

The DBputy Administrator in his final report to the National 

Industrial Recovery Board on said amendments to said Code having 

found as herein set forth and on the basis of all proceedings in this 

matter: 

The National Industrial Recovery Board finds 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 purpose of cooperative action of labor and management under 

adequate governmental sanctions 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 re- quired), by increasing the consumption of industrial and agricultural 

products through increased purchasing power, by reducing and 

relieving unemployment, by improving standards of labor, and by 

otherwise rehabilitating Industry. 

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(b) The Code as amended 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 Section 10, ther eof. 

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

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

to and will not permit monopolies or monopolistic practices. 

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

to and will not eliminate or oppress small enterprises and will not 

operate to discriminate against them. 

(f) Those eng·aged in other steps of the economic process will not 

have been depnved of the right to be heard prior to the effective 

date of these amendments. 

For the National Industrial Recovery Board: 

APRIL 2, 1935. 

w. A. H .ARRIM.AN' 

Administrative Officer. 
AMENDMENT TO CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION FOR THE 

BLOUSE AND SI{IRT MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES 

Amend Article III, by the addition of a new Section to be known 

as 6-A, reading as follows: 

In the blouse industry an individual operator or ironer, who is 

certified to be of very low productive capacity, may be employed 

at a wage less than the minimum wage prescribed for said worker 

in Article III, Section 3-A, provided: 

( 1) That at least 50% of the workers in the same class in an 

individual plant earn more than the minimum wages prescribed for 

said class: 

( 2) That the regular piece rates, where such exist, shall be paid 

to such workers, and that the wages to be paid to such workers of 

very low productive capacity shall not be less than 75% of the minimum wages prescribed for the class to which said worker belongs; 

or less than $14.00 per week in cities having more than 250,000 

population, and in New York City, or less than $12.00 per week in 

cities havjng a population of 250,000 or less-in those cases where 

75% of the prescribed minimum wage would yield less than $14.00 

per week or $12.00 per week. 

(3) In any one plant the total number of workers in any one of 

the above named classes receiving less than the minimum wages 

prescribed for said class shall not exceed 20% of the total nun1ber 

of workers in said class whether the exemption from the minimum 

rate of wages is based upon the exemption allowed for learners in 

Section 5, for employees of limited earning capacity in Section 6, or 

for very low productive capacity provided for above. 

( 4) Each employer shall submit the names of workers claimed 

to be of very low productive capacity to an Exemption CoiDlnittee 

or to the Labor Complaints Committee for certification as to their 

very low productive capacity. 

The Labor Complaints Committee shall issue certificates of very 

low productive capacity for the individual workers to their employers. Pending recognition of a Labor Complaints Committee 

by the National Industrial Recovery Board, an Exemption Committee shall be appointed immediately. Said Exemption Committee 

shall consist of four ( 4) members. The Code Authority shall appoint two members to represent employers, and the Labor Advisory 

Board of the National Recovery Administration shall appoint two 

members to represent employees. 

The members of the Exemption Committee shall designate an 

in1partial chairman to whom any matters of disagreement on classification of workers of very low productive capacity shall be referred, 

and the decision of the impartial chairman shall be binding upon 

said Exemption Committee. 

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All exemptions granted by the Labor Complaints Committee or by 

the Exemption Committee shall be subject to disapproval by the 

National Industrial Recovery Board. Amend Article III by the addition of a new section, to be known 

as Section 9, reading as follows : 

vVhen a contractor establishes that there has been an underpayment by any manufacturer and/or jobber under the provisions of 

this Article, such manufacturer and/or jobber shall be liable for 

Euch underpayment. The contractor must file his claim within 

three weeks of the date following the customary accounting settle- ment period. Failure of the contractor to file the claim as aforesaid 

shall deprive the contractor of any right to make claim for underpayment subsequent to the said period of three weeks. When any such 

claim for underpayment has been made by any contractor, such 

contractor shall open for inspection his books of account bearing on 

such claim. 

This section shall not be construed as diminishing or limiting the 

rights of any employee to any claim for underpayment against the 

party or parties who caused such underpayment to the extent of 

their underpayment. 

Approved Code No. 194-Amendment No. 2. 

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