Approved Code No. 24- Amendment No. 2 Registry No. 702-45 

NATIONAL RECOVERY ADMINISTRATION 

AMENDMENT TO 

CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

BITUMINOUS COAL INDUSTRY 

AS APPROVED ON APRIL 22, 1934 

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Boston, Mass.: 1801 Customhouse. Buffalo, N.Y.: Chamber of Commerce Building. Charleston, S.C.: Chamber of Commerce Building. 

Chicago, Ill.: Suite 1706, 201 North Wells Street. 

Cleveland, Ohio: Chamber of Commerce. 

Dallas, Tex.: Chamber of Commerce Building. 

Detroit, Mich.: 801 First National Bank Building. 

Houston, Tex.: Chamber of Commerce Building. 

Indianapolis, Ind.: Chamber of Commerce Building. 

Jacksonville, Fla.: Chamber of Commerce Building. 

Kansas City, Mo.: 1028 Baltimore Avenue. 

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Louisville, Ky.: 408 Federal Building. 

Memphis, Tenn.: 229 Federal Building. 

Minneapolis, Minn.: 213 Federal Building. 

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Approved Corle No. 24-Amendment No. 2 

AMENDMENT TO 

CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

BITUMINOUS COAL INDUSTRY 

As Approved on April 22, 1934 

ORDER 

1'foDIFICATION OF ConE oF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

BITUMI rous COAL I DUSTRY 

It appearing to me that there has been a full opportunity to be 

heard on Amendment No. 1 to the Code of Fair Competition for the 

Bituminous Coal Industry as set forth in my Administrative Order 

of 1'ifarch 31, 1934, at a duly noticed public hearing and otherw1se, 

and having fully considered all of the aspects of said Amendment 

No. 1 in light of the evidence presented at said public hearing and 

otherwise, and it appearing to me after such consideration that justice 

reqmres that the modifications herein effected be made and that said 

Amendment No. 1, as so modified should be in all respects affirmed 

and as so modified will tend to effectuate the policies of Title I of the 

National Industrial Recovery Act; 

Pursuant to the authority reserved to me in said Administrative 

Order and otherwise vested in me under said Title of said Act by 

Executive Orders of the President and otherwise, it is hereby ordered 

that said Amendment o. 1 as effected by my Administrative Order 

of March 31, 1934, be and it hereby is modified and, as so modified, 

approved and affirmed, such modification to be effective immediately 

as of April 1, 1934, in words and figures as set forth in the Exhibit 

hereto annexed which shall be known as "New Schedule A"; 

FURTHER ORDERED that, in view of the differentials hereby 

accorded District J, pending further order there shall be no sales by 

operators of said Di trict into the normal consuming markets of 

another District which is subject to higher rates of pay, at any price 

for coal of comparable grade and quality, less than the price for such 

coal in said market charged by such other District, and there shall be 

no destructive invasion of such other consuming market and, in the 

absence of sati factory agreements governing this rn a tter, the determination of the Administrator on complaint of any such destructive 

invas10n shall be conclusi·ve; 

54717°-482- 149-34 (1) 
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FURTHER ORDERED that the requirement of said Amendment 

o. 1 that the minimum rates for tonnage and other piecework in 

certain Districts should be further increased shall be modified so as to 

read as follows: 

'In addition to the increases above provided the minimum rates 

for tonnage and other piecework in Districts B, G, H, J, and J-1, 

shall be further increased, if necessary, by an amount sufficient to 

maintain the customary relationship in the industry between pay for 

such tonnage and piecework and the basic minimum rates for day 

labor as prescribed for such districts in New Schedule A"; 

FURTHER ORDERED that said requirement, as to increases in 

District B, shall be satisfied pending further order, by an increase per 

2,000 pound ton for said District of two and one-half (2}~) cents in 

loading rates and one-half (%) cent in cutting rates; 

FURTHER ORDERED that an error in the first paragraph of 

said Amendment No. 1 be corrected by the insertion of "clerical", 

before the word "technical" in the first line thereof; 

FURTHER ORDERED that full study shall be made by the 

National Recovery Administration as to adjustments in the price 

structure within the Bituminous Coal Industry, equitably required 

in consideration of the rates of pay in effect in the several Districts 

of said Industry, and to that end there shall be created a Bituminous 

Coal Research Unit within the Research & Planning Division of said 

Administration to conduct such study, to advise the Administrator 

on approval of proposed prices, and to make recommendations concerning such readjustment of the price structure; and 

Said Amendment No. 1, as modified in accordance herewith, be 

and the same hereby is in all respects, affirmed and approved, subject, 

however, to such further modification in any schedule therein as 

further investigation and fact finding by the Division of Research & 

Planning may discover to be necessary. Said Division will vigorously 

continue its present research into wages, prices and hours of labor in 

each of the affected Divisions. 

WASHINGTON, D.C., 

HUGH S. JOHNSON, 

Administrator for Industrial Recovery. 

April 22, 1934. 
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NEW SCHEDULE A 

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District A: Pennsylvania ___________ ____________ ________________ __ _ Ohio ____________ ___ _______________ ____________________ _ 

Lower Peninsula o[ Michigan _________________________ _ Panhandle District of West Virginia 1 _________________ _ 

District B: Northern West Virginia 2 _____________________ _ 

Di trict C: Southern West Virginia 3 _____________ __ _ ______________ _ 

Eastern Kentucky 1 ________ _____ ______________________ _ 

Upper Potomac District of West Virginia 5 ____________ _ Maryland ___________________ ___ _______________________ _ Virginia __________ _____________________________________ _ 

Northern Tennessee 6 _________________________________ _ 

Distri ct D: Indiana _____________________________ -- ____ ---- _ District E: lllinois __ ______________________________________ _ 

District F: Iowa 1 ____________________________________________ _____ _ 

Wayne and Appanoose Counties, Iowa ____ ______ ______ _ District G: Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas, Oklahoma _______ _ District R: ·western Kentucky s _____________ . ___ _________ _ 

District J: Alabama __________________________________ ____ ______ __ _ Georgia ___________________ ____________________________ _ 

Southern Tennessee, Hamilton and Rhea Counties ____ _ District J-1: Marion, Grundy, Sequatchie, White, Van 

Buren, Warren, and Bledsoe Counties in the State of Tennessee _____________________ _________ ___ ______________ _ 

District K: New Mexico _______________ . __________________________ _ Southern Colorado Y __ ____ • ____ - _______ - _ - _ __ - _________ _ 

District L: Northern Colorado 1o __________________________ _ District M: Utah ____ . _______________ ______ -- _ - ___________ _ 

District N: Southern Wyoming _______________ --- ______ ------ _____ _ Northern Wyoming ___________ -_ - ___ -- ____________ -- __ _ District O: Montana ______________ -_____ ---______________ _ _ District P: Washington ______________________ . ____________ _ 

District Q: North Dakota ___ ______________________________________ _ South Dakota _________________________________________ _ 

1 Includes Hancock, Brooke, Ohio and Marshall Counties. 

Basic minimum rates 

Minimum inside 

skilled labor 

Minimum outside common labor 

Per day Per hour Per day Per hour 

$5. 00 

5.00 

5.00 

5. 00 

5. 00 

4.60 

4.60 

4.60 

4.60 

4.60 

4.60 

4.571⁄2 

5. 00 

4. 70 

4.56 

4.35 

4.60 

3.80 

3.80 

3.80 

4. 24 

5.10 

5. 10 

5. 25 

5.44 

5. 42 

5.42 

5.63 

5.40 

4.50 

4. 50 

$0. 711/io . 71)10 

. 71)10 

. 71}10 

. 71)10 

. 651/to 

. 651/i 0 

. 651/Jo 

. 651/i o . 651/t o . 651/io 

. 651/i o . 711⁄2o 

. 671⁄2o 

. 651⁄2o 

. 621⁄2 o . 651/i o 

• 541/i 0 

• 541/i o 

. 54~1o 

. 60~fo 

. 72~i o . 72~1o . 75 

. 771/i 0 

. 77H o . 771/i 0 

. 801/i 0 

. 771⁄2o 

. 641/i o . 64~1o 

$4.00 

4. 00 

4.00 

4.00 

4. 00 

3.60 

3.60 

3. 60 

3.60 

3. 60 

3.60 

4. 20 

4.00 

4.00 

4.00 

3. 75 

3. 75 

2.80 

2.80 

2. 80 

3. 24 

4. 10 

4. 10 

4. 25 

4.48 

4.44 

4.54 

4.82 

4. 00 

3. 70 

3. 70 

$0. 57Vio 

. 57Ho 

. 57~10 

. 57}10 

. 57}1o 

. 51110 

• 611/t o . 5l'yto 

. 5l)fo 

. El)fo . 51)1 0 

. 60 

. 57J,1o 

. 571/i o • 571⁄2o 

.53%0 

. 539fo 

. 40 

. 40 

. 40 

. 463-f o 

• 583/f o 

. 58910 

. 60Ho 

. 64 

. 633⁄4 o . 64~1o 

. 68o/i 0 

. 57Vio 

.523⁄4o . 523⁄4o 

2 Includes Monogalia, :Marion, Harrison, Taylor, Lewis, Barbour, Gilmer, Upshur, Randolph, Braxton, 

Preston, and Webster Counties and those mines in Nicholas County served by the B. & 0. R. R. ~ Includes all mines in counties in West Virginia not named under District:, A and B and the Upper 

Potomac District. 1 Includes all mines in Kentucky located east of a north and south line drawn along the Western boundary of the City of Louisville. 1 Includes Grant, Mineral and Tucker Counties. 6 Include:, all Counties in Tennessee not named under Southern Tennes:,ee in District J and J-1. 7 Excludes Wayne and Appanoose Counties. s Includes all mines in Kentucky west of a north and south line drawn along the western boundary of 

the City of Louisville. g Includes all Counties in Colorado not named under District L. 10 Includes Jackson, Larimer, ·weld, Boulder, Adams, Arapahoe, El Paso, Douglas, Elbert, and Jefferson 

Counties. 

N0TE.-Differences between dLtricts in the foregoing minimum rates are not to be considered as fixing 

permanent wage differentials or establishing precedents for future wage scales. 

Approved Code No. 24.-Amendment No. 2. 

Registry No. 702-45. 

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