Approved Code No. 159-Amendment No. 1 Registry No. 1609-05 

NATIONAL RECOVERY ADMINISTRATION 

AMENDMENT TO 

CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

DRY AND POLISHING MOP 

MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY 

AS APPROVED ON OCTOBER 25, 1934 

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Approved Code No. !59-Amendment No. 1 

AMENDMENT TO CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

DRY AND POLISHING MOP MANUFACTURING 

INDUSTRY 

As Approved on October 25, 1934 

ORDER 

APPROVING AMENDMENT OF CoDE oF FAIR CoMPETITION FOR THE DnY 

AND PoLISHING MoP MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY 

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 Dry and Polishing Mop 

Manufacturing Industry, and Notice of Opportunity to be Heard 

having been duly published 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, the National Industrial Recovery Board, pursuant to authority vested in it by Executive Orders of the President, including 

Executive Order No. 6859, dated September 27, 1934, and otherwise; 

does hereby incorporate, by reference, said annexed report and does 

find that said amendment 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 

does 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. 

NATIONAL INDUSTRIAL REcovERY BoARD, 

By G. A. LYNcH, Admtinistra.tive Officer. 

Approval recommended: 

l{rLBOURNE JOHNSTON, 

Acting Division Administrator. 

WASHINGTON, D. c., 

October ~5, 1934. 

93640°----1244-95----34 (1) 
REPORT TO THE PRESIDENT 

The PRE IDEXT, 

The IV hite House. 

Srn: An application has been duly made pursuant to and in full 

compliance with the provisions of the National Industrial Recovery 

Act for an amendment to the Code of Fair Cmnpetition for the Dry 

and Poli hing ~lop :Manufacturing Indn try ubmitted by the Code 

Authority for the Dry and P olishing ~lor :Manufacturing Industry. 

The purpo e and effect of the amendment ar'>' to authorize the Code 

Authority to submit a budget and basi of a~"'".S ment upon which 

fund shall be contributed by members of the Indu try. The amendment also delete Section 11 and 12 of Article VII -which refer to 

filin cr of prices and ale below published price . The Deputy Administrator in his final report on said amendment 

to said Code having found as herein et f orth and on the basis of all 

the proceedings in this matter: 

It is found that: 

(a) The amendment of aid Code and the Code as amended are 

well desiQ'ned to promote the policies and purpo es of Title I of the 

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

to diminish the amount thereof, and -will provide for the general 

welfare by promoting the organization of indu try for the purpose 

of cooperative action among trade groups, by inducing and maintaining united actio11 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 industrie , by avoiding undue 

re trictions of production (except as may be temporarily required) 

by increasing the consumption of industrial and agricultural product through increasing purchasing po-wer, 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 said Title of aid 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 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. 

(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 eli criminate against them. 

(f) Those engaged in other steps of the economic process have 

not been depri \ eel of the right to be heard prior to approval of said 

Amendment. 

For the .... e rea ons, therefore, this Amendment has been approved. 

For the National Industrial Recoverv Board: 

OCTOBER 25, 1934. 

(2) 

G. A. LYNCH, 

Ad1ninist1·ative Office?'. 
A1fEND~1ENT TO CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION FOR 

THE DRY AND POLISHING :MOP ~1ANUFACTURING 

INDUSTRY 

ARTICLE VI 

Delete the present Section 2 (d) and substitute therefor the 

following: 

(d) It being found necessary in order to support the administration of this coJe and to maintain the standards of fair competition 

established hereunder and to effectuate the policy of the Act, the 

Code Authority is authorized: 

(1) To incur 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 herei~after provided and which 

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

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

such notice and opportunity to be heard as he may deem neeessary 

(a) an itemized budget of its estimated expenses for the foregoing 

purposes, and (b} an equitable basis upon which the funds necessary 

to support such budget shall be contributed by members of the 

industry; 

(3) Aft€r such budget and basis of contribution have been approved by the Administrator, to determine and obtain equitable 

contribution as above set forth by all members of the industry, and 

to that end, if necessary, to institute legal proceedings therefor in 

its own name. 

(e) Each member of the Industry shall pay his or its equitable 

contribution to the expenses of the maintenance of the Code Author-· 

ity, determined as hereinabove provided, and subject to rules and 

regulations pertaining thereto issued by the Administrator. Only· 

members of the Industry complying with the code and contributing 

to the expenses of its administration as hereinabove proYided, unless 

duly exempted from making such contributions, shall be entitled to 

participate in the selection of members of the Code Authority or to 

receive the benefits of any of its \Oluntary activities or to make use 

of any emblem or insignia of the National Reco\ery Administration. 

(f) The Code Authority shall neither incur nor pay any obligation 

substantially in excess of the amount thereof as e timated in its 

approved budget, and shall in no event exceed the total amount con-· tained in the approved budget, except upon approval of the Admin-· 

istrator; and no subsequent budget shall contain any deficiency item: 

for expenditures in excess of prior budget estimates except those' 

which the Administrator shall have so approved. 

(3) 
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Delete from the Code Section 11 of Article VII, which reads as 

follows: 

11. Published Prices.-vVithin ten (10) days each member of the 

Industry shall publish to the trade, and file with the Code Authority, 

a price list for all products of the Industry sold or offered for sale 

by him, together with the discounts and transportation allowances, 

if any, allowed therefrom, and fixed terms of payment; which price 

lists shall fully and accurately describe each product as to color, 

treatment and weight of yarn, type of individual packaging, and 

the finish of the handle, if included. Revised price lists or revised 

discounts or terms and conditions of sale may be filed and published 

from time to time thereafter by any member of the Industry, provided, however, that such revision shall be published and filed with 

the Code Authority at least ten days in advance of the effective date 

thereof. Copies of revised price lists and discounts with notice of 

the effective date specified shall be sent immediately by the Code 

Authority to all known members of the Industry, who thereupon 

may file, if they so desire, revisions of their price lists and/or discounts, which may become effective upon the date when the revised 

price lists or discounts first filed shall go into effect. 

Delete from the Code, Section 12 of Article VII, which reads as 

follows: 

12. Sales below Published Prices.-N o member of the Industry 

shall sell or offer for sale any products of the Industry at prices 

lower than the prices noted in his price list or on more favorable 

terms and conditions of sale than the terms and conditions of sale 

previously published and filed by such member with the Code authority in accordance with the foregoing provisions and in effect at 

the time of such sale. 

Renumber present Sections 13, 14, 15 of Article VII to 11, 12, 13. 

respectively. 

Approved Code No. 159-Amendment No. 1. 

Registry No. 160f)L05. 

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