Approved Code No. 45-Amendment No. 1 Registry o. 915-01 

NATIONAL RECOVERY ADMINISTRATION 

AMENDMENT TO 

CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

SADDLERY MANUFACTURING 

INDUSTRY 

AS APPROVED ON MAY 18, 1934 

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U.S. DEP091TO"Y 

UNITED STA TES 

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WASHINGTON: 1934 

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Approved Code No. 45-Amendment No. 1 

AMENDMENT TO CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

SADDLERY MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY 

As Approved on May 18, 1934 

ORDER 

APPROVING AMENDMENTS OF CooE OF FAIR CoMPETITION FOR THE 

SADDLERY MANUFACTURING IxouSTRY 

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 Suddlery Manufacturing 

Industry, and hearings having been duly held thereon and the 

annexed report on said amendments, containing findings with respect 

thereto, having been made and directed to the President: 

NO.\iV, THEREFORE, on behalf of the Pre ident of the United 

States, I, Hugh S. Johnson, Administrator for Indu trial Recovery, 

pursuant to authority ve ted 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 amendments and the Code as 

constituted 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 amendments 

be and they are hereby approved, and that the previous approval 

of. aid Code is hereby modified to include an approval o:f said Code 

in its entirety as amended. This order to be effective fifteen ( 15) 

days after the elate hereof, unless prior to that time good cause to 

the contrary shall be shown and the Administrator shall issue a 

subsequent order to that effect. 

Administrator 

Approval recommended : 

GEO. L. BERRY, 

Division Ad'1ninistrator. 

w ASHINGTON, D.C., 

May 18, 1934. 

60376°-544-112-34 (1) 

HUGH S. JOHNSON, 

for Industrial Recovery. 
REPORT TO THE PRESIDENT 

The PRESIDENT, 

The White House. 

Srn: This is a report on the amendments to the Code of Fair Com- petition for the Saddlery Manufacturing Industry and on the hearing ' 

conducted thereon in "\Vashington, D.C., April 6, 1934, in accordance 

with the provi ·ions of Title I of the National Industrial Recovery 

Act. 

GENERAL STATEMENT 

The Saddlery ~1anufacturing Industry, through the Saddlery Industry National Committee, its Code Authority, has offered amendments to the Code of Fair Competition for the Saddlery Manufacturing Industry. 

RESUME OF MODIFICATIONS 

1. The amending of Section 1, Article III, permits working employees an average of forty hours per week in any six months' period 

for the first eight months following the effective date of the Code, 

this eight months' period being a compromise, inasmuch as this Industry has been busier this year than in the past 15 years and there 

having been practically no apprentices during this time. 

2. Clarification and slight revision of the terms in Section 1 of 

Article X. 

3. A revision of Section 2 of Article X governing the terms 0£ resale of saddlery products by jobbers. 

4. Elimination of the final clause in Section 5 of Article X. 

5. Revision of Section 2 of Article VIII, which increases the differential between unskilled and skilled employees from fifteen cents 

( 15¢) to twenty cents (20¢). 

The Deputy Administrator in his final report to me on said amendments to said Code, having found as herein set forth and on the 

basis of all the proceedings in this matter: 

I find that: 

(a) The amendments to said Code and the Code as amended are 

well designed to promote the policies and purposes of Title I of 

the National Industrial Recovery Act including the removal of 

ob tructions to the free fl.ow of interstate and foreign commerce 

which tend to diminish the amount thereof, and will provide for the 

general welfare by pron1oting 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 sanction and supervision, by eliminating unfair competitive practices, by promoting the fullest possible utilization of 

the present productive capacity of the industries, by avoiding undue 

restrictions of production ( except as may be temporarily required), 

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by increasinO' the con umption of indu trial and agricultural products 

throuO'h in rea ·ing purcha ·in; po\Yer by reducing and relieYing 

unemployment, by improYing tandard of lab r, and by other°"i...:e 

rehabilitating indu. try. 

(b) The Co le a. amend d complies in all re. p ct with the per• 

tinent proYisions of aid Title of aid Act, incluclin9.: ,,ithout limitation ub ·e tion (a) of Se ·tion 3, Sub ection (a) of Section 7 and 

Sub ·ection (b) of Section 10 thereof. ( c) The amendment and the Cod,., as amended are not designed 

to and ,,ill not permit monopolie or m nopoli~tic practi es. 

( cl) The amendment and the Code a amen led are not de ignecl 

to and will not eliminate or oppre s sniall enterpri es and will not 

operate to discriminate against them. 

( ) Tho e engag0 d in other steps of the economic proce ·s have. 

not been depriYed of the right to be heard prior to approval of said 

amendments. For the e rea ons the amendments have been approved. 

Respectfully, 

HUGH s. JOHNSON, 

A drninistrator. MAY 18, 1934. 
Al\1END1\1ENT TO 

CODE OF FAIR COl\1PETITI01r FOR THE SADDLERY 

:MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY 

ARTICLE III 

Amend Section 1, Arti ·le III, so that it will read as follows: 

SECTION 1. No employee shall work or be permitted to work in 

excess of 40 hours average in any 4 months' period ( except that 

during the first 8 month following the effective date of this Code 

no employee hall work or be permitte9- to work in excess of 40 

hours average in any 6 months' period) , nor over 40 hours in any 

week except by payment of one and one-third rate for overtime, 

nor over 8 hours in any 24 hour period except by payment of one 

and one-third ra.te for overtime. 

ARTICLE X 

Amend Section 1, Article X, by striking out the last seven words 

thereof, as follows: "shipments may be made thirty days earlier" 

and substituting therefor the following words, to wit: "shipments 

may be made at the convenience of the manufacturers when orders 

are so taken provided aid orders exceed one thousand dollars in 

amount". 

Amend Section 1, Article X, further by adding at the close of 

this section the fallowing sentence: " The foregoing provisions of 

this section apply only to domestic bu iness, sales for export trade 

b€ing specifically exempted". 

Section 1, Article X, will read as follows: 

SECTION 1. Selling saddlery products on terms of payment more 

favorable than 2% discount for cash within 10 days from date of 

shipment; 30 days net, except products shipped between July 1st and 

Octob 0 r 1st may be subject to 2% discount, October 10th, net November 1st, and products shipped between December 1st and l\1arch 

1st may be ubject to 2% discount :March 10th and net April 1st, 

which terms shall apply to harness, harness parts, strap work, collars 

and saddles or any of them, whether made of leather or substitutes 

for leather; but in the case of saddlery products sold to wholesalers 

on above terms, shipment may be made at the convenience of the 

manufacturers when orders are so taken, provided said orders exceed 

one thousand dollars in amount. The foregoing provisions shall 

apply only to domestic business, sales for export trade being specifically exempted. 

Amend Section 2, Article X, by striking out all of the pre ent 

section 2, and substituting the :following: 

SECTION 2. Selling saddlery products to wholesalers or jobbers for 

resale to retailers, unless and until said wholesalers or jobbers agree 

to observe in the resale of the products so sold the standard terms of 

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payment laid down for the saddlery industry in c::ection 1 of this 

article. 

Sections 1 and 2 of this article shall not apply to ales to retailers 

by saddlery manufactur r and/ or wholesalers and/or jobber on 

orders of saddlery where the saddl ery items aggregate less than 

$10.00. 

Amend Section 5, Article X, by striking out the last fifteen words 

in said section, to wit: "except as jobbers may require shipment in 

straight carloads to other points for distribution therefrom." 

To amend S ction 2 of Article VIII to read as fallows : 

SECTION 2. The minimum wage for unskille I labor shall be thirtyfive cents (35-¢ ) per hour, save in the States of Tenne"'see, Kentu ky, 

Mi issippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkan as, Louisiana, New 1\1exico, 

Arizona, where it shall be thirty-two and one-half cents (321⁄2¢) per 

hour. There shall be a differential in favor of skilled labor of not 

less than twenty cent per hour, but in no case shall the lowe t pa.id 

skilled mechanic be paid less than twenty cents (20¢) per hour over 

and above the minimum rate prescribed herein. As an exception to the :foregoing provi ions of Sections 1 and 2 of 

this Article all female employees engaged in making pads used under 

collars, harness, or saddles, or making canvas stitched back bands or 

open bottom cotton fibre stuffed cotton collars or flynets or horse covers, shall be paid not less than at the rate of thirty-two and one-half 

cents (321⁄2•¢) per hour, save in the states named above where they 

shall be paid not less than at the rate of thirty cents (30¢) per hour. 

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