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Registry No. 244-01 

NATIONAL RECOVERY ADMINISTRATION 

CODE OF FAIR C·OMPETITION 

FOR THE 

LACE MANUFACTURING 

INDUSTRY 

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AS APPROVED ON AUGUST~14,'_1933 

BY 

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT 

WE DO OUR PART 

1. Executive Order 

2. Text of the Code as Approved 

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U1 ITED STATES 

GOVERNMENT PRI TING OFFICE 

WASHINGTON : 1933 

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EXECUTIVE ORDER 

AUGUST 14, 1933. 

A Code of Fair Competition for the Lace Manufacturing Industry~ 

having been heretofore submitted to the National Recovery Administration, hearings having been held thereon, and an Amended Code 

of Fair Competition having been sub1nitted on August 7, 1933, said 

original Code and said Amended Code having been submitted by 

duly qualified and authorized representatives of the Industry 

complying with the Statutory requirements as representing fully 

seventy-five percent of the capacity of the Industry, and said Code 

being in full compliance with all pertinent provisions of the National 

Industrial Recovery Act, Now Therefore 

Pursuant to the authority vested in me by Title I of the National 

Recovery Act, approved June 16, 1933, on the report and recommendation of the Administrator appointed by me under the authority 

of said Act, and on consideration : 

It is ordered that the said Code of Fair Competition for the Lace 

Manufacturing Industry, as amended and .submitted on July 7, 1933, 

is hereby approved, subject to the following condition: 

(1) To effectuate further the policies of the Act, a Lace Manufacturing Industry Committee be created to cooperate with the 

Administrator as a Planning and Fair Practice agency for the Lace 

Manufacturing Industry, which Committee shall consist of five representatives of the Lace Manufacturing Industry elected by a fair 

method of selection, to be approved by the Administrator, and three 

members without vote appointed by the Administrator. 

Approval Recommended: 

HUGH s. JOHNSON' 

Admini8trator. 

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT. 

(II) 
APPLICATION TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED 

STATES FOR APPROVAL OF A CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION FOR THE AMERICAN LACE MANUFACTURING 

INDUSTRY UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 3 OF 

TITLE 1 OF THE STATUTE ENTITLED "AN ACT TO 

ENCOURAGE NATIONAL INDUSTRIAL RECOVERY, TO 

FOSTER FAIR COMPETITION, AND TO PROVIDE FOR 

THE CONSTRUCTION OF CERTAIN USEFUL PUBLIC 

WORKS, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES " 

1. Definitions.-The term' Lace ianufacturing In lu try" a used 

herein is defined to mean the manufacture of products of the Levers. 

Go-through, Bobbinet, Barmen, or l\1echlin machines and/or any and 

all proces ino- thereof. 

2. This application is ma le by the American Lace 1anufacturer 

A· ·ociation represented by a committe of its Board of Director con-

·i ting of Hugo N. Schlos , Pre iclent f the Am rjcan Lace Manufacturers A ociation and Tr asur r of the Liberty Lace an l Jetting 

Works, New York Cit. ; H. . Bro nl . Ti e President of the American Lace :Manufacturers As~oci:..tio11 and President of the North 

American L ace Company, Philacl lphia, Pa.; Henry Giebel, President Thomas, ,Vilson &, Co., Inc., .1.~ew York City · anl ,Valter H. 

TarYer, of John Bromley & • 11.· , Philadelphia Pa. 11 the foregoing members of thi committee c1re tl:~_ em elves connected with concerns engaged in manufacturing jn the lace industry. This committee repre ents approxima ely 75 p rcent of the productive capacity 

of the industry. The A · o iation has impo eel no inequitable restrictions on aclmi · ion to its member hip and believes it i truly representative of the lace manufacturing indu try. 

3. The American Lace l\Ianufacturer Association has been in 

exi tence for approximately twenty years. Durino- that period it 

represented a majority of the pro luctiYe capacity of the indu try and 

has been the only a sociation repr enting the industry. 

4. This Committee ha been con. tituted for the purpose of cooperating W\th the Pre ident in effectuating the purposes of the Na- tional Industrial Recovery Act by formulating provisions for a 

code of fair competition for the lace manufacturing industry. It 

has been actively engaged in ascertaining the views of the various 

units engaged in the lace-manufacturing industry and has a wide 

knowledge of the conditions of the industry. 

5. This Committee has reecived the unqualified authorization of 

mills representing approximately three fourths of the productive 

capacity of the lace-manufacturing industry in the United States to 

act on their behalf with respect to the formulation and adoption of 

a Code of Fair Competition, under the National Industrial Recovery 

Act. 

6. Application is hereby made under the provisions of Section 3 

of Title 1 of the National Industrial Recovery Act for approval by 

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the President of the proposed Code of Fair Competition £or the 

lace-manufacturing industry, submitted herewith and attached 

hereto. 

7. To assist in carrying out the provisions and purposes of the 

National Industrial Recovery Act and rules and regulations made 

pursuant thereto and the Code of Fair Competition submitted herewith and £or the formulation of such further code provisions as 

may be necessary to insure £air competition and to effectuate the 

provisions of the Act, it is requested that the American Lace Manufacturers Association be constituted as an agency £or these purposes. 

Respectfully submitted. 

THE AMERICAN LACE MANUFACTURERS AssN ., 

By HUGO N. SCHLOSS, 

H. s. BROMLEY, 

HENRY GIEBEL, 

w ALTER H. TARVER. 
CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION FOR THE AMERICAN LACE 

MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY 

To effectuate the policy of Title I of the National Industrial 

Recovery Act, during the period of the emergency, by reducing and 

relieving unemployment, improving the standards of labor, eliminating competitive practices destructive of the interests of the public, 

employees and employers, and otherwise rehabilitating the lace manufacturing industry and by increasing the consumption of industrial 

and agricultural products by increasing purchasing power, and in 

other respects, the following provisions are established as a code of 

fair competition for the lace manufacturing industry. 

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Definitions.-The term "Lace Manufacturing Industry", as used 

herein, is defined to mean the manufacture of the products of Levers, 

Go-through, Mechlin, Barmen, and Bobbinet machines and/ or any 

and all processing thereof. 

The term "employees", as used herein, shall include all persons 

employed in the conduct of such operations. 

The term ." employers" shall mean all persons who employ labor 

in the conduct of any branch of the lace manufacturing industry, 

as defined above. 

The term "productive machinery", as used herein, is defined to 

mean Levers, Go-through, Mechlin, Barmen, and Bobbinet machines. 

The term " rack ", as used herein, shall mean 1,920 motions of a 

Levers or Go-through machine, 1,440 motions of a Bobbinet machine 

or 1,440 motions of a Mechlin machine. 

The term "effective date", as used herein, is defined to be the 

8econd Monday after the approval by the President of the United 

States of this code or any part thereof or addition thereto. 

Th~ ~erm "perso~s" sh~ll include n~tural persons, partnerships, 

associat10ns, trusts, 1nclud1ng trustees 111 bankruptcy and receivers 

and corporations. 

II 

On and after the effective date, the minimum wage that shall be 

paid by employers in the Lace tfanufacturing Industry to any of 

the employees shall be at the rate of $13.00 per week for forty hours 

of labor, except that learners during a six weeks' apprenticeship 

shall be paid not less than 80 percent of the minimum wage and 

shall not exceed in number one learner to six craftsmen. 

III 

On and after the effective date employers in the Lace Manufacturing Industry shall not operate on a schedule of hours of labor for 

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their employees in excess of forty hours per week and they shall not 

operate productive machinery in the lace manufacturing industry 

for more than two shifts of forty hours each per week, no matter 

by whom operated. o one shall be employed in the lace manufacturing industry for 

more than forty hours per week except as follows: 

(a) Repair-shop crews, outside sales force, executives, and supervisory staff. 

(b) Engineers, electricians, firemen, designers, draftsmen, and 

shipping crews; but provided further that all such employees shall 

be paid at the rate of time and one half for all hours per week over 

forty. · 

( c) Provided further that any excepted employees, if employed 

other than in their stated duties, shall be restricted to forty hours 

per week. 

On and after the effective date, employers in the lace manufacturing industry shall not employ any minor under the age of sixteen 

years. 

IV 

With a view to keeping the Pre ident informed as to the observance or nonobservance of this code of fair competition, and as to 

whether the lace manufacturing industry is taking appropriate steps 

to effectuate the declared policy of the National Industrial Recovery 

Act, each person engaged in the Lace Manufacturing Industry will 

furnish duly certified reports in substance as follows and in such 

form as may hereafter be provided. 

(a) -wages and Hours of Labor.-Returns for every four (4) 

weeks, showing for each of the four ( 4) weeks, immediately preceding, the following: 

1. Number of operatives of productive machinery employed. 

2. Total hours worked by all operatives of productive machinery. 

3. Maximum hours worked by any employee other than those 

excepted in paragraph III (a). 

4. Minimum rate per hour paid to any employee other than those 

excepted in paragraph II. 

(b) Machinery Data.-Returns every four ( 4) weeks showing the 

number of quarters existing in each plant, the number of machines 

actually operated each week of each specific classification, as later 

adopted, the total number of machine hours and racks produced each 

week of each specific classification. 

( c) Sales.-Returns every four ( 4) weeks showing the total net 

sales in dollars. 

The American Lace Manufacturers Association (106 West 38th 

Street), New York City, is constituted the agency to collect and 

receive such reports. 

V 

To further effectuate the policies of the Act, the American Lace 

Manufacturers Association, the applicants herein, or such committee 

or committees as may hereafter be constituted by the action of the 

American Lace Manufacturers Association, is set up to cooperate 

with the Administrator as a planning and fair practice agency for the 
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lace manufacturing industry. Such agency may from time to time· present to the Administrator recommendations based on conditions 

in the industry as they may develop from time to time which will 

tend to effectuate the operation of the provisions of this Code .!tnd 

the policy of the National Industry Recovery Act, and in particular 

along the following lines : 

1. Recommendations as to the requirements by the Administrator 

of such further reports from per ons engaged in the lace mannfncturing industry of stati tical information and keeping of uniform 

accounts as may be required to secure the proper ob ervance of the 

code and promote the proper balancing of production and consumption and the stabilization of the industry and employment. 

2. Recommendations for the setting up of a service bureau for 

engineering, accounting credit, and other purpo es to aid the maller 

mills in meeting the conditions of the emergency and the requirements of this code. 

3. Recommendation (1) for the requirement by the Admini trator of registration by persons engaged in the lace manufacturing 

indu try of their productive machinery, (2) for the r quirement 

by the Administrator that prior to the installation of a klitional 

productive machinery by perso11s engaged or eno-aging in the lace 

manufacturing industry, except for the replacement of a similar 

number of now exi ting machines or to parts of productive machinery to be used for replacement or maintenance of now existing 

productive machinery, such persons shall secure certificates that uch 

installation will be consistent with effectuating the policy of the 

National Industrial Recovery Act durino- the period of the emergency, and (3) for the granting or withholding by the Administrator 

of such certificates if so required by him. 

4. Recommendations for changes in, or exemptions from the provisions of this code as to the working hours of machinery which will 

tenrl to preserve a balance of productive activity with consumption 

requirements, so that the interests of the industry and the public may 

be properly served. 

5. Recommendations for the making of requirements by the 

Administrator as to practices by persons engaged in the lace manufacturing industry as to methods and conditions of trading the 

naming and r eporting of prices which may be appropriate to avoid 

discrimination, to promote the stabilization of the industry, to prevent and eliminate unfair and destructive competitive prices and 

practice . 6. Recommendations for regulating the disposal of distress merchandise in a way to secure the protection of the owners and to 

promote sound and stable conditions in the industry. 7. Recommendations as to the making available to the supplier o:f 

credit to those engaged in the industry of information r egarding 

terms of, and actual functionino- of any or all of the provisions of 

th~ Code, the condition of the industry and regarding the operations of any and all of the members of the industry covered by such 

code to the end that during the period of emergency available credit 

may be adapted to the needs of such industry considered as a whole 

and to the needs of the small as well as the large units. 
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8. Recommendations for dealing with any inequalities that may 

otherwi e arise to endanger the stability of the indu try an 1 o:f 

production and employment. 

Such recommendations, after hearing and when approved by the 

President, shall have the same force and effect as any other provision 

of this Code. 

Such agency is also set up to cooperate with the Administrator in 

making investigations as to the functioning and observance of any 

of the provisions of this Code, at its own instance or on complaint 

by any person affected, and to report the same to the Administrator. 

Such agency is also set up for the purpose of investigating and 

informing the Administrator on behalf of the lace manufacturing 

industry as to the importation of competitive articles into the United 

States in substantial quantities or increasing ratio to domestic production on such terms or under such conditions as to render ineffective or seriously to endanger the maintenance of this Code and as 

an agency for making complaint to the President on behalf of the 

lace manufacturing industry, under the provisions of the National 

Industrial Recovery Act, with respect thereto. 

VI 

Where the costs of executing contracts entered into in the lacemanufacturing industry prior to the Approval of the President of 

the United States· of this Code are increased by the application of 

the provisions of that Act to the industry, it is equitable and pro- motive of the purposes of the National Industrial Recovery Act that 

appropriate adjustments of such contracts to reflect such increased 

costs be arrived at by arbitral proceeding or otherwise, and the 

American Lace Manufacturers Association, the applicant for this 

Code, is constituted an agency to assist in effecting such adjustments. 

VII 

The American Lace Manufacturers Association, now situated at 

106 West 38th Street, New York City, shall be constituted the administrative agency in cooperation with the Administrator, in 

accordance with the provisions of this Code. 

VIII 

Any employer may participate in the endeavors of the American 

Lace Manufacturers Association relative to the revisions or additions to this Code by accepting the proper pro rata hare of the cost 

and responsibility of creating and administering it, either by becoming a member of said A sociation or by paying to it an amount 

equal to the dues from time to time provided to be paid by a member in like situation of American Lace Manufacturers Association. 

IX 

Employers in the Lace Manufacturing Industry shall comply 

with the requirements of the National Industrial Recovery Act as 

follows: " ( 1) That employees shall have the right, to organize and 
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bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing, 

and shall be free from the interference, restraint, or coercion of 

employers of labor, or their agents, in the desio-nation of such representatives or in self-organization or in other concerted activities for 

the purpo e of collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection; (2) that no employee and no one seeking employment shall be 

required us a condition of employment to join any company union 

or to refrain from joining, organizing, or assisting a labor organization of his own choosing; and ( 3) that employers hall comply with the maxin1um hours of labor, minimum rates of pay, and 

other conditions of employment approved or prescribed by the 

President." 

X 

This Code and all the provisions thereof are expressly made subject to the right of the President, in accordance with the provisions 

of Clause 10 (b) of the National Industrial Recovery Act, from time 

to time to cancel or modify any order, approval, license, rule or 

regulation, issued under Title I of said Act, and specifically to the 

right of the President to cancel or modify his approval of this Code 

or any conditions imposed by him upon his approval thereof. 

XI 

Such of the provisions of this Code as are not required to be included therein by the National Industrial Recovery Act may, with 

the approval of the President, be modified or eliminated as changes 

in circumstances or experience may indicate. It is contemplated 

that from time to time supplementary provisions to this Code or additional codes will be submitted for the approval of the President 

to prevent unfair competition in price and other unfair and destructive competitive practices and to effectuate the other purposes and 

policies of Title I of the National Industrial Recovery Act consistent with the provisions hereof. 

By HUGO N. SCHLOSS, 

HENRY GIEBEL, 

H. s. BROMLEY, 

w ALTER H. TARVER. 

I, H. A. Philips, Chairman of the Code Committee of the American 

Lace Manufacturers Association, do hereby certify that the foregoing 

is a true copy of the Code of Fair Competition for the Lace Manufacturing Industry submitted to the Administrator under the National Industrial Recovery Act on July 13, 1933, as amended by 

authority of the Board of Directors of the American Lace Manu- i 

facturers Association. 

[SEAL] 

DATED AUGUST 7, 1933. 

H. A. PHILIPS, 

Chairman of the Code Committee. 

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