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Approved Code No. 332-Amendment No.1 Registry No. 236-1-01 

NATIONAL RECOVERY ADMINISTRATION 

AMENDMENT TO 

CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

LADIES' HANDBAG INDUSTRY 

AS APPROVED ON JULY 3, 1934 

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Approved Code No. 332-Amendment No. 1 

AMENDMENT TO CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

LADIES' HANDBAG INDUSTRY 

As Approved on July 3, 1934 

O R DER 

APPROVING AMENDMENT oF CoDE OF FAIR CoMPETITION FOR THE 

L ADIES' H ANDBAG I NDUSTRY 

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 an amendment to a Code of Fair Competition for the Ladies' Handbag 

Industry, and hearings having been duly held thereon and the 

annexed report on said amendment, containing findings with respect 

thereto, having been made and directed to the President: 

NOW, THEREFORE, on behalf of the President of the United 

States, I , H ugh 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, and otherwise, do hereby incorporate by reference, said 

annexed report and do find that said amendment and the Code as 

constituted after being a.mended 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 amendment be 

and it is hereby approved, and that the previous approval of said 

Code is hereby modified to include an approval of said Code in its 

entirety as amended, such approval and such amendment to take 

effect fourteen (14) days from the date hereof, unless good cause 

to the contrary is shown to the Administrator before that time and 

the Administrator issues a subsequent order to that effect. 

HuGHS. JoHNSON, 

Administrator for Industrial Recovery. 

Approval recommended : 

SoL A. RosENBLATT, 

Division Ad1ninistrator. 

WASHINGTON, D.C., 

July 3, 1934. 

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REPORT TO THE PRESIDENT 

The PRESIDENT, 

The Wh#e House. 

SIR: The Code Authority of the Ladies' Handbag Industry has 

made formal application to the Administration for an amendment 

to the Code of Fair Competition for said Industry providing for the 

n1andatory collection of assessments for the purpose of financing the 

activities of the Code Authority. 

Under date of June 15, 1934, a Notice of Opportunity to be Heard 

was issued. By the terms of the said Notice, any criticisms of, 

objections to, or suggestions concerning said amendment, might be 

filed with Deputy Administrator, Dean G. Edwards prior to Thursday, June 28, 1934. No criticisms, objections or suggestions however, have been received. 

FINDINGS 

The Deputy Administrator, in his final report to me on said 

amendment, having found as herein set forth, and on the basis of all 

the proceedings in this matter: 

I find that: 

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

designed to promote the policies and purposes of Title I of the N ationa! Industrial Recovery Act, including the removal of obstructions 

to the free flow of interstate and foreign commerce which tend to 

dimish the amount thereof, and will provide for the general welfare 

by promoting the organization of industry for the purpose of cooperative actwn among trade groups, by inducing and maintaining 

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 industries by avoiding undue restriction of production 

(except as may be temporarily required), by increasing the consumption of industrial 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 amended complies in all respects with the pertinent provisions of SU:id 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 empo·wers the Code Authority to present the aforesaid amendment on behalf of the Industry as a whole. 

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

to, and will not permit monopolies or monopolistic practices. 

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(e) The amendment 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 have not 

been deprived of the right to be heard prior to approval o:f said 

amendment. 

For these reasons this amendment has been approved. 

Respectfully, 

JULY 3, 1934. 

Huon S. JoHNSON, 

Administrator. 
AMENDMENT TO CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION FOR THE 

LADIES' HANDBAG INDUSTRY 

The Code of Fair Competition for the Ladies' Handbag Industry 

is hereby amended by striking out Sections 6 and 8 (f) of Article 

VI so that Section 7 of the Code as it now reads shall become Section 

6 and Section 8 of the Code as it now reads shall become Section 7 

and substituting the following for Section 8 (f). 

(f) 1. It being found necessary in order to support the administration of this Code and to maintain the standards of fair competition established hereunder and to effectuate the policy of the 

Act, the Code Authority is authorized: 

(a) To incure such reasonable obligations as are necessary and 

proper for the foregoing purposes, and to meet such obligations 

out of funds which may be raised as hereinafter provided and 

which shall be held in trust for the purposes of the Code; 

(b) To submit to the Administrator for his approval, subject 

to such notice and opportunity to be heard as he may deem necessary (1) an itemized budget of its estimated expenses for the 

foregoing purposes, and (2) an equitable basis upon which the 

funds necessary to support such budget shall be contributed by 

members of the industry; 

(c) After such budget and basis of contribution have been 

approved by the Administrator, to determine and obtain equi- table contribution as above set forth by all members of the indu try, and to that end, if necessary, to institute legal proceedings therefor in its own name. 

2. Each member of the industry shall pay his or its equitable contribution to the expenses of the maintenance of the Code Authority, 

determined as hereinabove provided, and subject to rules and regulations pertaining thereto issued by the Administrat_or. Only members of the indu try complying with the code and contributing to the 

expenses of its administration as hereinabove provided, shall be 

entitled to participate in the selection of members of the Code 

Authority or to receive the benefits of any of its voluntary activities. 

3. The Code Authority shall neither incur nor pay any obligation 

in excess of the amount thereof as estimated in its approved budget, 

except upon approval of the Administrator; and no subsequent budget shall contain any deficiency item for expenditures in excess of 

prior budget estimates except those which the Admin,istrator shall 

have so approved. · 

Approved Code No. 332-Amenclment No. 1. 

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