Approved Code No. 41-Amendment No. 2 Registry No. 902-1-01 

NATIONAL RECOVERY ADMINISTRATION 

AMENDMENT TO 

CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

WOMEN'S BELT INDUSTRY 

AS APPROVED ON DECEMBER 29, 1934 

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Approved Code No. 41-Amendment No. 2 

AMENDMENT TO CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

WOMEN'S BELT INDUSTRY 

As Approved on December 29, 1934 

ORDER 

APPROVING AMENDMENT OF CoDE OF FAIR CoMPETITION FOR THE 

WOMEN's BELT INDUSTRY 

An application havin~ been made pursuant to and in full com· 

pliance 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 Women's Belt Industry, 

and an opportunity to be heard having been afforded th-ereon, 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 the 

authority vested in it by the 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, does hereby order that said amendment be and it is 

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

hereby amended to include an approval of said Code in its entirety 

as amended; 

PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that subsection 5 of Section A, and 

subsection 9 of Section B, of Article VI of the Code as approved 

October 3, 1933, be and they hereby are stayed until such time as 

a subsequ-ent Order is issued thereon either amending said subsections 

or terminating this Stay. 

NATIONAL INDusTRIAL REcoVERY BoARD, 

By W. A. HARRIMAN, Administrative Officer. 

Approval recommended: 

PRENTiss L. CooNLEY, 

Acting Division Administrator. 

WASHINGTON, D. c., 

Decemher 29, 1934-

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REPORT TO THE PRESIDENT 

The PRESIDENT, 

The White House. 

Srn: The Code Authority for the Code of Fair Competition for 

the Women's Belt Industry has submitted a proposed amendment to 

this Code. After conferring with members of the Code Authority 

and representatives of the various Advisory Boards of the National 

Recovery Administration, notice of opportunity to be heard, dated 

October 27, 1934, was published and distributed to all members of 

the Industry, said notice having expired on Novembe.r 16, 1934, with 

no criticisms of, objections to, or suggestions having been submitted 

to the National Recovery Administration. 

This amendment amends the Code by deleting from Article VI 

subsection 8 of Section B and by adding a new Article designated 

as Article VIII and entitled "Assessments", Sections 1, 2 and 3. 

Deletion of said subsection 8 was re.quested by the Code Authority 

for the Industry at the time of submission of the amendment for 

approval because of its inconsistency with the new Article VIII. 

This new Article VIII is designed to authorize the Code Authority 

to incur such reasonable obligations as are necessary for the purpose 

of carrying out its functions and duties, to submit to the National 

Industrial Recove.ry Board an itemized Budget and an equitable 

basis upon which necessary funds shall be contributed by members 

of the Industry and, if necessary, to institute in its own name legal 

proceedings for the collection of such funds after approval of such 

Budget and basis of contribution. 

The amendment also provides that subject to National Recovery 

Administration rules and regulations each member of the Industry 

shall pay an equitable contribution, and unless such is paid he or It 

shall not be entitled to participate in the selection of Code Authority 

members, to receive benefit of Code Authority activities, nor to make 

use of any National Recovery Administration emblem or insignia. 

The amendment further provides that the Code Authority shall 

neither incur nor pay any obligations in excess of the amount estimated in the approved Budget and that no subsequent Budget shall 

contain the deficiency items for expenditures in excess of prior budget estimates except as the National Industrial Recovery Board 

shall have approved. 

While considering this amendment the National Industrial Recovery Board found that two other sections of the Code as originally 

approved would be inconsistent with this amendment. Since these 

two other sections would be no longer necessary for the purpose of 

the Code, and might easily be removed without making any substantial change in the Code, they were stayed by the Order approving said amendment. 

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The Deputy Administrator, ip his final report to the National 

Industrial Recovery Board on the amendment to said Code, having 

found as herein set forth and on the ba is of all proceedings in this 

matter: 

It 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 removal of obstructions 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 industry for the purpose of 

the cooperative action of labor and management under adequate 

governmental sanction and supervision, by eliminating unfair competitivB 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 UU-' 

employment, by improving standards of labor, and by otherwise 

rehabilitating industry. 

(b) The Code as amended complied in all respects with the pertinent provisions of said 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 empowers the Code Authority to present the afore-· 

said amendment on behalf of the Industry as a whole. 

(d) The amendment to the Code as amended is 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 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 of said 

amendment. 

For these reasons, this amendment has been approved. 

For the National Industrial RBcovery Board: 

w. A. HARRIMAN, 

DECEMBER 29, 1934. 

Administrative Offioe'~'<. 
·AMENDMENT TO CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION FOR 

THE WOMEN'S BELT INDUSTRY 

Said Code is hereby amended by deleting therefrom subsection 8 of 

Section B of Article VI and by the addition of the following as a 

new Article : 

ARTICLE VIII-AssEsSMENTS 

SECTION 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 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 hereinafter provided and which 

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

(b) To submit to the National Industrial Recovery Board for its 

approval, subject to such notice and opportunity to be heard as it 

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 National Industrial Recovery Board, 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. 

SECTION 2. Each member of the Industry shall pa.y 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 National Industrial 

Recovery Board. Only members of the Industry complying with the 

Code and contributing to the expenses of its administration as hereinabove provided, (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 voluntary activities or to make use of any emblem or insignia of the 

National Recovery Administration. 

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

obligation substantially in excess of the amount thereof as estimated 

in its approved budget, and shall in no event exceed the total amount 

contained in the approved budget, except upon approval of the 

National Industrial Recovery Board; and no subsequent budget shall 

contain any deficiency item for expenditures in excess of prior budget 

estimates except those which the National Industrial Recovery Board 

shall have so approved. 

Approved Code No. 41-Amendment No. 2. 

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