Approved Code No. 42-Amendment No. 2 Registry No. 907-1-01 

NATIONAL RECOVERY ADMINISTRATION 

AMENDMENT TO 

CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

LUGGAGE AND FANCY 

LEATHER GOODS INDUSTRY 

AS APPROVED ON JUNE 29, 1934 

WE DO OUR PART 

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Approved Code No. 42-Amendment No. 2 

AMENDMENT TO CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

LUGGAGE AND FANCY LEATHER GOODS 

INDUSTRY 

As Approved on June 29, 1934 

ORDER 

APPROVING AMENDMENT OF ConE OF FAIR Col\IPETITION FOR THE 

LUGG.AGE .AND FANCY LEATHER GOODS I NDUSTRY 

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 an amendment to a Code of Fair Competition for the Luggage and Fancy 

Leather Goods Industry, and hearings having been duly held thereon 

and the annexed report on said amendment, containing findings with 

respect thereto, having been made and directed to the President: 

NO"\iV, 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 amendment and the Code as con- stituted 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 do hereby order that said amendment be and 

it is 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. 

Approval recommended : 

GEO. L. BERRY, 

HUGH 8. JOHNSON, 

.A.d1ninistrator for I ndustrial R ecovery. 

Division .A.drninistrator. 

,v ASHING TON' D. c.' 

June £9, 1934. 

70957 °-657-172--34 (1) 
REPORT TO THE PRESIDENT 

The PRESIDENT, 

The White House. 

Sm: This i a report on the amendments to the Co le of Fair Competition for the Luo-gage and Fancy Leather Goods Industry and on 

the hearing conducted thereon in Washington, D.C., June 6, 1934, 

in accordance with the provisions of Title I of the National Industrial Recovery Act. 

The Luggage and Fancy Leather Goods Industry, through the 

Ex cutive Code Committee, its Code Authority, has offered amendment to the Code of Fair Competition for the Luggage and Fancy 

Leather Goods Industry. 

RESUME OF MODIFICATIONS 

1. For the inclusion of " wallets, desk sets, key cases and pencil 

case ", upon which hearing was held and which should have been 

included in the amendment of March 10, 1934, but was omitted in 

copying through an over ight. 

2. For the inclusion of a further provision to Article V, Section 7, 

of the amendment of March 10, 1934, upon which hearing was held 

and which should have been included in the amendment of that date, 

but was omitted in copying through an oversight. 

3. The provision which it is proposed to add to Article VII was 

included at the suggestion of the Adn1inistration in order to clarify 

and to comply with the policy of the Administration in the collection of code authority a sessments. 

4. The purpo e of this amendment is to permit the Code Authority 

to incorporate. 

5. The purpose of Article VI, Section 12 (a) is to permit the 

retailer to procure his holiday merchandise in advance of the regular 

peak sea on, and to enable the industry to procure their orders at 

an earlier date so as to avoid last minute rush orders. 

6. The purpo e of Article VI, Section 12 (b) of the Amendment 

of l\1arch 10 1934, i to clarify the present section. 

'I he Deputy clmini tr a tor in his final report to me on said 

Amendment to aid Code having found as herein set forth and on 

the ba is of all the proc edings in this matter: 

I find that: 

(a) The m nc1m nt to aid Code and the Code a amended are 

w 11 cl io-n d to prom te the policies and purposes of Title I of the 

ational Indu trial Re overy Act including the removal of ob tructions to the fr e flow of int r tate and foreign commerce which tend 

to dimini h ih amount th reof? and will provide £or the general ,, lfare b pr motino- th organization of in lustry for the purpose 

vf cooperativ action am ng trade group , by inducing and r.1ain-

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taining united 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 the industrie , by avoiding undue restrictions of production ( except as may be temporarily r quired), by 

increa ing the consumption of industrial and agricultural products 

through increasing purchasing power, by reducing und relieving unemployment, by improving standards of labor, and by otherwi e 

rehabilitating industry. 

(b) The Code as amended complies in all re pect "·ith the pertinent provi ions of said Title of aid Act, including with nt limitation Subsection (a) of Section 3, Sub ction (a) of Section 7 and 

Subsection (b) of Section 10 thereof. 

( c) The Amendments and the Code a amended are not de igned 

to and will not permit monopolies or monopolistic practice~. 

( d) The Amendments and the Code a amended are not de. igned 

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

operate to discriminate against them. 

( e) Those engaged in other teps of the economic proc ss have not 

been deprived of the right to be heard prior to approval of said 

Amendments. 

For these reasons the Amenilinents have been approved. 

Respectfully, 

JUNE 29, 1934. 

HUGH S. JOHNSON, 

Adm-inistrator. 
A:MENDn1ENT TO CODE OF FAIR CO~1PETITION FOR THE 

L GGAGE AND FANCY LEATHER GOODS I DUSTRY 

In accordance with the procedure specified in Article VII, Section 8, 

of the Code of Fair ompetition for the Luggage and Fancy Leather 

Good Industry, the Executive Code Committee, being the Planning 

and Fair Practice Agency for the Industry, submits herewith the 

following amendments or modifications to the Code: 

1. It i propo ed that Section 1, sub- ection (b) of the amendment 

to the Code of Fair Competition for the Luggage and Fancy Leather 

Good In lu try approved ~1arch 10, · 1934, be amended by adding 

after the word "card cases " in the 5th line the following: " wallets, 

de k sets, key ca es and pencil ca es ". 

2. Add to Section 7, Article V, approved in the amendment of 

~Iarch 10. 1934, after the la t paragraph, the following: ' The Executive Code Committee may also o-rant the same privilege to another Division or Divi ion$ of this Industry on the application of such Divi ion or Division ." 

3. It i propo eel that Article VII entitled "Participation" be 

amended by adding the following thereto as Section 2: 

"SECTIO~ 2. A. It being found necessary to support the Administration of this Code, in order to effectuate the policy of the Act and 

to maintain the tandard of fair competition establi hed hereunder, 

the Code Authority is authorized: 

" 1. 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 purposes of the Code 

and raised as hereinafter provided; 

"2. To submit to the Admini trator for his approval, subject to 

such notice and 01 portunity to be heard as he may deem. nece ary: 

"(a) An itemized budget of its estimated expen es for the foregoing purpo e , and 

"(b) An quitable basi upon which the funds neces ar to upport 

such budget shall be contributed by all members of the Inclu try 

entitled to the benefits accruino- from the maintenance of uch standardc:::, an 1 the a<lmini tration thereof ; 

' 3. After such bu lgct and ba is of contribution have been approved by the Aclmini trator to determine and collect equitable contributions as aboYe '"et forth and to that end, if nece sary, to in titute 

1 ga l proc dino·s therefor in its own name. 

'' n. Each member of the indu try hall pay hi or it equitable 

eontribution to the expens of the maintenance of th Code uthority determined a hereinabo-ve proYicl 1 and ubject to the rul ~ an 1 

r egulations pertaining thereto issued by the Admini trator. Only 

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members of the industry complying with the Code and contributing 

to the _expenses of ~~ amn~nistration as hereinabove provided, shall 

be entitled to participate 1n the selection of members of the Code 

Authority or to receive the benefits or any of its voluntary activities. . " C. The Code Authority shall neither incur nor pay any obligation 

1n excess of the amount thereof as estimated in its approved budget, 

except upo1: approval of the Admini trator, and no subsequent budget 

shall contam any deficiency item for expenditures in exces of prior 

budget estimates except those which the Administrator shall have so 

a pp roved." 

4. It is proposed that Section 1, Article VIII, after the words "as 

a Planning and Fair Practice Agency of the Industry " the following 

sentences be added: 

"The Executive Co le Committee may incorporate under the laws 

of any State of the United SI-ates or of the District of Columbia, such 

corporation to be not for profit and to be known as 'the Code Authority of the Lugga<Ye and Fancy Leather Goods Industry '; provided 

that the powers, dutie , objects and purposes of the said corporation, 

shall, to the sati faction of the Administrator, be limited to the 

powers, duties, objects and purposes of the Executive Code Commit- tee as pro, ided in the Code; provided further, that the Code Authority shall submit to the Administrator, for his approval, it proposed 

Certificate of Incorporation and proposed by-laws, and no amen lment 

of either shall be made without the like prior approval of the Administr ator. If at any time, the Administrator shall determine thut the 

corporate status a sumed by the Code Authority is interfering with 

the proper exercise of its powers and duties under this Code, or with 

the effectuation of the policies or purposes of the Act, he may, after 

such notice and hearing as he may deem necessary, require an appro- priate modification of the structure of the Corporation (if consistent 

with the law of the State of Incorporation), the substitution of a 

corporation created under the laws of another State in the same 

manner as the existing Code Authority, the substitution of a non- corporate Code Authority truly representative of the Indu try or 

such other actions as he may deem expedient." 

5. It is proposed that paragraph "a", Section 12, of Article VI, 

be amended to r ead as fallows : 

(a) "In the brief case, hand luggage, sample case, ample trunk 

and trunk division of the Industry terms shall not exceed 2 % 10 days, 

30 days extra from date of shipment, except that manufacturers shall 

be permitted to accept one order to a customer shipped after October 15th, dated December 1st." 

6. It is proposed that paragraph " b ", Sect.ion 12, of Article VI, 

ti.S amended March 10, 1934, shall be amended to read as follows: 

(b) "In the fancy and small leather goods division of the Industry, terms to the chain and variety stores, wholesalers and mail order 

houses shall not exceed 2% 10 days from date of shipment, with the 

privilege of giving E .O.M. (end of month) dating. To all other 

purchasers terms shall not exceed 3% 10 days from date of shipment, 

with the privilege of ,giving E.O.M. ( end of month) dating, and from 

said purchasers manufacturers in the fancy and small leather goods 
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di-vi ion hall be permitted to accept one order to a customer 

hipped after Augu t 1 t, dated December 1st, with maximum term~ 

3% 10 da , E.0.1\I. (end of month) dating, and also one order to a 

whole aler, shipped after August 1st, dated December 1st, with 

n1aximum terms 2% 10 days, E.0.1\1. (end of month) dating." 

Approv d ode o. 42-Amendment No. 2. 

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