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Approved Code No. 194-Amendment No. 4 Registry No. 210-01 

NATIONAL RECOVERY ADMINISTRATION 

AMENDMENT TO 

CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

BLOUSE AND SKIRT 

MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES 

AS APPROVED ON MAY 14, 1935 

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Approved Code No. 194-Amendment No. 4 

Al\ilENDMENT TO CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

BLOUSE AND SKIRT MANUFACTURING 

INDUSTRIES 

As Approved on May 14, 1935 

ORDER 

APPROVING AMENDMENT OF ConE OF FAIR CoMPE'l'ITION FOR THE 

BwusE 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 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 amendnients, 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 pertinentfrovisions and will promote 

the policy and purposes of said Title o said Act, and does hereby 

order that said amendments be and they are hereby approved, and 

that the prev_ious approval of said Code 1s hereby amended to include 

an approval of said Code in its entirety as amended. 

NATIONAL INDUSfrRIAL RECOVERY BOARD, 

By w. A. HARRIMAN, Administrative Officer,. 

Approval recommended : 

M. D. VINCENT, 

Acting Diviswn Administrator. 

w ASHINGTON' D. c., 

May 14, 1935. 

130114°-1844-32-35 (1) 
REPORT TO THE PRESIDENT 

The PRESIDENT, 

The White House. 

Sm: A public hearing was called on April 10, 1935, to discuss 

amendments to the Code of Fair Competition for the Blouse and 

Skirt Manufacturing Industries, on which date the amendments 

herein contained were properly h0ard. 

There have been no material changes in the amendments as first 

submitted, merely one minor change which was agreed to at the 

hearing. 

Article V, Section 1 is amended to add a new paragraph, (f), 

which states in effect that the Code Authority shall not be partners. 

Article V, Section 1 (a) is amended by adding three sentences, which 

provide :for the election of alternate members of the Code Authority. Article VII is amended by adding a new section (m), and 

re-lettering the present section (m) to (n), which provides in effect 

that no member of the industry may sell merchandise to anyone 

except wholesale or retail distributors. 

The Deputy Administrator in his final report to the National 

Industrial Recovery Board on said amendments to said Code ha~ 

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 pur.Poses 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 mana~ement 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 t.emporarily required), 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. 

(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, thereof. 

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

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

to and will not permit n1onopolies or monopolistic practices. 

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( e) The amettdments 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 engaged in other steps of the economic process will not 

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

date of these amendments. 

For the National Industrial Recovery Board: 

w. A. HARRIMAN, 

}uy 14, 1935. 

'A.dminisvrative Officer. 

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AMENDMENT TO CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION FOR 

THE BLOUSE AND SKIRT MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES 

Article V, Section 1 (a), of the Code of Fair Competition for the 

Blouse and Skirt Manufacturing Industries is here'by amended by 

adding thereto the following three sentences : 

In addition thereto, there may be a specific alternate member for 

each of the members of the Code Authority. Each alternate member shall be selected in the same fashion as is the member for whom 

he is an alternate. Each alternate member shall act and vote only 

in the absence of the member for whom he is an alternate. 

Article V, i,ection 1, of the Code of Fair Competition for the 

Blouse and Skirt Manufacturing Industries shall be amended by 

adding th~reto a new paragraph, to be designated as ( f), reading 

D.s follows : 

Nothing contained in this Code shall constitute the members of 

the Code Authority partners for any J?Urpose. Nor shall any member of the Code Authority be liable 1n any manner to anyone for 

any act of any other member, officer, agent, or en1ployee of the 

Code Authority. Nor shall any member of the Code Authority, 

exercising reasonable diligence in the conduct of his duties hereunder, be liable to anyone for any action or omission to act under 

this Code, except for his own wilful malfeasance or non-feasance. 

Article VII, of the Code of Fair Competition of the Blouse and 

Skirt Manufacturing Industries, shall be amended by adding thereto 

a new section ( m) and relettering the present section ( m) to section 

( n) . The new section ( m) will read as follows : 

No members of the Blouse and Skirt Manufacturing Industries 

normally selling to the trade for resale, may sell merchandise to 

anyone except to wholesale or retail distributors. This shall not 

prevent, however, bona fide sales by members to their own employees 

of merchandise which is for the personal use of such employees, 

or to retail buyers at not less than the regular wholesale prices, provided the buyers are employed in the department in which the merchandise of the member of the industry is usually sold. Nor shall 

this prevent members of the industry from selling at retail provided 

such sales are made through a separate retail or mail order establishment operated by them, and notice of such operations has been 

given to the Code Authority. 

Approved Code No. 194--Amendment No. 4. 

Registry No. 210---01. 

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