Approved Code No. 6-Amendment No.3 Registry No. 244-01 

NATIONAL RECOVERY ADMINISTRATION 

AMENDMENT TO 

CODE OF FAIR COl\'IPETITION 

FOR THE 

LACE MANUFACTURING 

INDUSTRY 

AS APPROVED ON DECEMBER 24, 1934 

WE DO OUR PART 

UNITED STATES 

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WASHINGTON: 1934 

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Approved Code No. &-Amendment No. 3 

AMENDMENT TO CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

LACE MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY 

As Approved on December 24, 1934 

ORDER 

APPROVING Al\fENDMENT oF CoDE OF F AIR CoMPETITION FOR THE L ACE 

l\1ANUFACTURING 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 amendments 

to a Code of Fair Competition for the Lace Manufacturing Indu try, 

and hearings having been duly held thereon and the annexed r eport 

on said amendments containing findings with r espect thereto, having 

been made and directed to the President: 

NOW, THEREFORE, on behalf of the President of the U nited 

States, the National Indu t rial Recovery Board p ur uant t o authority vested in it by Executive orders of the President, including 

Executive Order 6859, dated September 27, 193-1, and otherwi e, 

does hereby incorpor ate, by reference, said annexed r ep ort and does 

find that said amendments and the Code as con t ituted after being 

amended complies in all respects with the pertinent provision and 

will promote the policy and purpo es of said Title of said Act, and 

doe hereby order that said amendments be and it js hereby approved, 

and that the previou approval of said Code is hereby amended 

to include an approval of said Code in its entiret y as amended. 

N ATIONAL INDUSTRIAL RECOVERY BOARD, 

By vV. A. l-lARRil\fAN, Adrninistrative Officer. 

Approval recommended: 

PRENTISS L. CooNLEY, 

Acting Division A dminJr;trator. 

w SHINGTON, D. c., ec er , 1.934. 

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REPORT TO THE PRESIDENT 

The PRESIDENT, 

The White House. 

SIR: This is a report on the Hearing on the Amendments to the 

Code of Fair Competition for the Lace :Manufacturing Industry, 

held in Room 3208 of the Department of Commerce Building, on 

March 19, 1934. The Amendments which are attached were presented by the Code Authority. 

In accordance with the customary procedure every per on who had 

filed a request for an appearance was freely heard in public, and all 

statutory and regulatory requirements were complied with. 

The following Am_en lmonts are submitted for approval: 

The provisions of the Code relating to maximum hours which any 

employee may work have been changed to permit executives, outside 

sales force, supervisory staff, draftsmen and designers to work unlimited hours provided they are paid thirty-five dollars ($35) or more 

per week; electricians, shippina crews, cleaners, dyers, chauffeurs, 

and repair shop crews are permitted to work not more than fortyeight ( 48) hours per week providing time and one-half shall be paid 

for all hohrs worked in excess of forty ( 40) hours per week; firemen 

and engineers are permitted to work not more than forty-eight ( 48) 

hours per week, provided time and one-half shall be paid for all 

hours worked in exce s of forty-two ( 42) hours per week; watchmen 

are permitted to work not more than fifty-six (56) hours per. week, 

with one day's rest (24 Hours) during each fourteen (14) day period; office employees are permitted to work forty ( 40) hours per 

week averaged over a period of six weeks, but not more than fortyeight ( 48) hours in any one week; the last paragraph of Article III 

is amended to prohibit the employment of per ons under eighteen 

years of age at hazardou occupations ; a new Article XV is added 

which permit the regi tration of "fabrics", subject to the approval 

of National Industrial Recovery Board to the definition of" fabrics". 

FINDINGS 

The Deputy Administrator in his final report to the National Industrial Recovery Board on said Amendments to said Code having 

found as herein set forth an l on the basis of all proceedings in this 

matter: 

The National Industrial Recovery Board finds 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 

National Industrial Recovery Act including the remO\ al of ob tructions to the free flow of interstate and foreign commerce which tend 

to dimini h the amount thereof, and will provide for the general 

welfare by promoting the organization of inclu try for the purpose 

of cooperative action among trade groups, by inducing and maintain-

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ing 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 pres nt 

productive capacity of industries, by avoiding undue restriction of 

production (except as may be temporarily r equired) by increasing the 

consumption of industrial and agricultural products tlu-ough increas- ing purchasing power, by reducing and relieving unemployment, by 

improving standards of labor, and by otherwi e rehabilitating 

industry. 

(b) The Code as amended complies in all re pects with the pertinent provisions of said Title of said Act, including without limitation Sub ection (a) of Section 3, Subsection (a) of Section 7 and 

Subsection (b) of Section 10 thereof. 

(c) The Code empowers the Code Authority to pre ent the afore5aid Amendments on behalf of the Industry as a whole. (d) The Amendments and the Code as amended are not de igned 

to and will not permit monopolies or monopolistic practices. 

(e) .The Amendments and the Code as amended are not designed 

to and will not eliminate or oppress small enterprises and will not 

operate to discriminate aO'ainst them. 

(f) Tho e engaged in other steps of the economic process have not 

been deprived of the right to be heard prior to approval of said 

Amendments. For the above reasons these Amendments have been approved. 

For the National Industrial Recovery Board: 

DECEl\fBER 24, 1934. 

w. A. H ARRil\fAN, 

Administ1·ative Officer 
AMENDMENT TO CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION FOR 

THE LACE ~1ANUF ACTURING INDUSTRY 

Article III is to be amended to read as follows : 

On and after the effective date employers in the Lace 1\fanufacturing Industry shall not operate on a schedule of hours of labor for 

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. 

No employee shall be permitted to work in excess of forty ( 40) 

hours in any one week, except as herein other wise provided. 

(a) Watchmen shall be permitted to work not more than fifty-six 

(56) hours in any one week, provided that a rest of one day (twentyfour hours) be allowed during each fourteen (14) day period. 

(b) Draftsmen, designers, electricians, members of repair shop 

crews, cleaners, dyers, janitors, chauffers, and members of shipping 

crews shall be permitted to work not more than forty-eight ( 48) 

hours per week, provided that all such employees be paid at the rate 

of tim·e and one-half for all hours per week over forty ( 40). Firemen and engineers shall be permitted to work not more than fortyeight (48) hours per week, provided that all such employees shall be 

paid at the rate of tjme and one-half for all hours per week over 

forty-two ( 42) hours. 

(c) Executives and members of the supervisory staff who earn 

regularly less than $35.00 per week shall be permitted to work not 

more than forty-eight ( 48) hours per week. . (d) No employee shall be permitted to work more than forty (40) 

hours per week whose duties are not wholly within one or more o£ 

the classifications of employment for which more than forty ( 40) 

hours per week are permitted. 

(e) The maximum hours of labor for office employees in the indus try shall be an average of forty ( 40) hours a week over each 

period of six (6) weeks, but in no event shall exceed forty-eight (48) 

hours per week. 

(£) The provi ions o£ this article shall not apply to persons employed in an executive or supervisory capacity, draftsmen and designers, who earn regularly $35.00 per week or more, nor to outside 

salesmen, nor to employees engaged in emergency maintenance or 

emergency repair work involving protection of life or property, 

provided, however, that all employees engaged in emergency maintenance or emergency repair work shall receive at least one and onehalf times their normal rate of pay for all hours worked in excess 

o£ forty ( 40) hours in any one week or in excess of eight ( 8) hours 

in any twenty-four (24) hour period. 

(g) No person under sixteen (16) years of age shall be employed 

in the industry nor anyone under eighteen (18) years of age shall 

be employed at occupations hazardous in nature or detrimental to 

health. The Code Authority shall furnish a list of such occupations 

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within sixty (60) days after the effective date of this amendment. 

In any State an employer shall be deemed to have complied with this 

provision if he shall have on file a certificate or permit duly issued 

by the authority in such State .empowered to issue employment or age 

certificates or permits, showing that the employee is o£ the required 

age. 

A new Article XV should be auded to read as follows : 

ARTICLE XV 

SECTION 1. No member of the industry shall imitate or copy, or 

cause to be imitated or copied, or offer for sale or sell any imitation 

or copy of any fabric originally developed and produced by any other 

member of the industry, without the consent of such originating member, or the lawful successor to the rights of such originating member 

to said fabric. 

(a) If, a sample of said fabric has been registered with an impartial agency to be designated by the Code Authority. In registering 

such fabric, the registrant shall submit a sworn statement in which 

he certifies that l}.e has conceived said fabric or lawfully acquired 

ownership or rights thereto from the originator or prior owner 

thereof, and that to the best of his knowledge and belief, such fabric 

is in fact original as aforesaid. Such impartial agency shall accept 

any fabric ubmitted for registration as aforesaid, and shall issue a 

certificate of registration to the registrant, and 

(b) If, within three months after registration as aforesaid said 

fabric, or any article composed in whole or in part of such fabric, 

has been offered for sale or sold or produced in commercial quantities 

in the regular course of business, and 

(c) I£, said fabric or such articles composed in whole or in part 

of such fabric, when sold by the registrant, are identified by the mark 

"Reg. NRA ", and the date of registration. 

Provided, that the prohibition herein against imitation or copy of 

any fabric shall expire one year from the date of registration thereof. 

Nothing herein shall be construed to limit the protection afforded 

to designers or manufacturers under existing law. 

SECTION 2. Any complaint or dispute which may arise under Section 1 of this Article shall, in the first instance, be referred to the 

Code Authority, which shall endeavor to adjust the same. If the 

Code Authority cannot effect an adjustment, the parties to such dispute may submit the matter to arbitration. If any dispute arising 

under Section 1 of this Article should involve a member of the Code 

Authority, said member of the Code Authority shall not participate 

in the adju tment of such eli pute. The Code Authority shall relieve 

any such member of his duies pending the settlement of such dispute, 

repb.cin<Y him with an appointment pro tempore of another person 

engaged in the industry or his representative. 

SECTION 3. This Article thall not become effective prior to the submi ion by the Code Authority and approval by the National Industrial Recovery Board of the definition of the word "fabric." 

Approved Code No. 6-Amendment No. 3. 

Registry No. 244-01. 

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