Approved Code No. 118-Amendment No. 3 Registry No. 217-1-06 

NATIONAL RECOVERY ADMINISTRATION 

AMENDMENT TO 

CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

COTTON GARMENTi INDNSTRY 

AS APPROVED ON MARCH 15, 1934 

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Approved Code No. 118-Amendment No. 3 

AMENDMENT TO CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

COTTON GARMENT INDUSTRY 

As Approved on March 15, 1934 

ORDER 

APPROYING CoDE OF F AIR C o l\IPETITION FOR THE Cm."l'ON GARMENT 

INDUSTRY 

M ODIFICATION OF CONDITIONS N U MBERS 1 AND 2 OF EXECU'l'IVE ORDER OF 

DECEl\IBER 1 8 , 1933 

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 a modification of an Executive Order, dated December 18, 1933, approving, 

inter alia, amendments to the Code of Fair Competition for the 

Cotton Garment Industry, and the annexed report on said modification, containing findings with re pect 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 6543-A, dated December 30, 

1933, by Executive Order, dated December 18, 1933, approving 

amendments to the Codes of Fair Competition for the Men's Clothing Industry and Cotton Garment Industry, by the provisions of 

Section A of Article II of the Code of Fair Competition for the 

Cotton Garment Industry, approved November 17, 1933, and otherwise; do hereby incorporate by reference, said annexed report, and 

do find that such modification and the Code as constituted after 

being modified 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 modification, attached hereto as 

Schedule A and specifically incorporated herein by r eference, be and 

it i hereby approved, and that the previous approval of said Code, 

dated November 17, 1933, and said Executive Order, dated December 

18, 1933, are hereby modified to include an approval of said 

Code in its entirety a modified, uch modifications to take effect 

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seven days after date hereof, unless good cause to the contrary 

is shown to the Administrator before that time, and the Adminis- trator issues a sub~·equent order to that effect. This order shall terminate July 1, 1934, subject to the issuance of further orders in 

this regard. 

HUGH S. JOHNSON, 

Administrator for Industrial R ecovery. 

Approval recommended: 

A. D. ,;v HITESIDE, 

Division Administrator. 

WASHINGTON, D.C., 

March 15, 1934-

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REPORT TO THE PRESIDENT 

The PRESIDENT, 

The W kite House. 

Sm: The Deputy Administrator in his final report to me on the 

modification of said Code having found as herein set forth and on 

the basis of all the proceedings in this matter: 

I find that: 

(a) The modification of said Code and the Code as modified are 

well de ignecl to promote the policies and purposes of Title I of the 

National Industrial Recovery Act including the removal of obstruction · to the free flow of interstate and foreign commerce which tend 

to dimi.nish 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 adequate governmental 

anction and supervision, by eliminating unfair competitive practices, by pron1oting 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 

con runption of indu. trial and agricultural products through increasing purchasing power, by reducing and relieving unemployment, 

by improving standards of labor, and by otherwise rehabilitating 

industry. (b) The Code as modified 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 thereof. 

( c) The modification and the Code as modified are not designed 

to and will not permit monopolies or monopolistic practices. 

( d) The modification and the Code as modified are not designed 

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

operate to discriminate against them. 

( e) Those engaged in other steps of the economic process have not 

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

modification. 

I have therefore, on your behalf, approved said modification. 

Respectfully, 

HUGH s. JOHNSON, 

Adm,inistratm-. 

:MARCH 15, 1934. 

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The Executive Order of December 18, 1933, amending the Code of 

Fair Competition for the Cotton Garment Industry, is amended as 

follows. Conditions Numbers 1 and 2 of the said Order are abrogated, and the following substituted therefor: 

1. No manufacturing employee engaged in the production of men's 

and boys' pants when made of (a) corduroy, other than those shades 

et forth below, or (b) cloths other than those set forth below, 

whether or not made in work clothing factories, shall be paid at less 

than the rate of thirty-four cents (34¢) per hour in the southern section of the Industry, or less than thirty-seven cents ( 37 ¢) per hour in 

the northern section of the Industry, as such sections are defined in 

the Cotton Garment Code and amendments thereto. 

l' o manufacturing employee engaged in the production of men's 

and boys' pants made in work clothing factories in conjunction with 

work clothing or work pants, when ma le of 100% cotton content and 

when made entirely from carded cotton yarns without synthetic 

yarn, silk or mercerized yarn decoration, and when such pants are 

made of (a) denims, plain or printed or woven, including those 

denims known as Hickory or express stripes, or (b) moleskins, or 

( c) pin checks, or ( d) carded seersuckers, or ( e) coverts, or ( f) plain 

dyed or bleached ducks, twills or drills, or (g) cottonades, except 

cotton worsteds, or (b) dark drab, seal brown or navy blue corduroys, or (i) heavy carded cotton whipcords, shall be paid less than 

at the rate of thirty cents (30¢) per hour in the southern section of 

the Industry, or less than thirty-two and one-half cents (321⁄2¢) per 

hour in the northern section of the Industry, as such sections are 

defined in the Cotton Garment Code and amendments thereto. 

2. The Inter-Code Committee provided for in Condition Number 2 

of the Executive Order of December 18, 1933, amending the Cotton 

Garment Code, is hereby terminated and all powers and duties 

deleaated to the Committee in said Condition are hereby transferred 

to the Special Administrator hereinafter provided. It is hereby 

ordered that a Special Administrator shall be designated to serve 

until July 1, 1934, who shall administer and supervise enforcement 

in re pect of cotton wash suits of 100% cotton content and/ or single 

pants, shall determine all questions in respect of the appropriate 

minimum wage to be paid by any member of the Industry pursuant 

to this Order, shall make interpretations of the provisions of this 

Order, shall have the power to add to, alter or reclassify any of the 

definitions or classes of materials set forth in this Order, and shall 

determine all que tion arising from the operatjon of this Order. 

His determinat10n and findings hall be final, and pending an appeal 

to the Administrator shall be binding until disapproved. 

The Special Administrator shall make a survey and study of the 

Pants Industry, and shall prepare a report and recommendations 

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prior to June 30, 1934, with respect to changes in maximum hours, differentials, or changes in the minimum wage to be paid employees 

engaged in the production of men's and boys' pants, and with 

respect to amendments to the Cotton Garment Code concerning 

definitions, wage rates and/or maximum hours. . 

3. No manufacturing employee engaged in the production of men's "·ash suits of 100% cotton content when made in work clothing f actories in conjunction with work clothing shall be paid at less than 

the rate of thirty-four cents (34¢) per hour when employed in the 

southern section of the Industry, or less than thirty-seven cents 

(37¢) per hour when employed in the northern section of the Indus-

. try, as such sections are defined in the Cotton Garment Code and 

amendments thereto. The Special Administrator hereinabove pro 4 

vided for shall have the same powers and duties with respect to such 

cotton wash suits as are delegated to him by this Order with re pect 

to men's and boys' pants. 

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