Approved Code No. 24-Amendment No.8 Registry No. 702-45 

NATIONAL RECOVERY ADMINISTRATION 

AMENDMENT TO 

CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THB 

BITUMINOUS COAL 

INDUSTRY 

AS APPROVED ON MARCH 30, 1935 

WI DO OUR PART 

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Approved Code No. 24-Amendment No. S 

AMENDMENT TO CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

BITUMINOUS COAL INDUSTRY 

As Approved on March 30, 1935 

ORDER 

AMENDMENT OF ConE OF FAIR COJuPETITION FOR TIIE BITUMINous CoAL 

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 Bituminous Coal 

Industry and 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, inclu ling 

Executive Order No. 6543-A, Executive Order No. 6859 and Executive Order No. 6993, and otherwise, does hereby incorporate by 

reference said annexed report and does find that said amendment and 

said Code as constituted after being so amended complie in all 

respects with the pertinent provisions and will promote the policy 

and the purposes of said Title of said Act, and does hereby order 

that said amendment be and is hereby approved, and that the previous approval of said Code as hereby amended to include approval 

of said Code in its entirety as amended, 

FURTHER ORDERED, that the order of this Board hereinabove recited be and hereby is made without prejudice to the Board's 

consideration of an appropriate action upon any application for 

amendment to or modification of said Code now pending in or with 

the National Recovery Administration and subject to the power 

especially reserved in and by said Board to order the amendment or 

modification of any provision of said Code in · conformity with any 

agreement affecting such provision which may be reached between 

employers and employees in said Industry and presented to said 

Board at any time between April 1, 1935, and June 16, 1935, both 

dates inclusive for its consideration thereof and action thereon. 

NATIONAL INDUSTRIAL RECOVERY BoARD, 

Attest: 

By DoNALD R. RrcnBERG, Acting Ohair·man. 

L. c. MARSHALL, 

Ewecutive S ecretary. 

Approval recommended : 

w. P. ELLIS, 

Division Adrninistrator. 

wASHINGTON, D. c., 

March 30, 1935. 

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REPORT TO THE PRESIDENT 

The PRESIDENT, 

The White House. 

Sm: 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 Competition for the 

Bituminous Coal Industry, submitted by the National Bituminous 

Coal Industrial Board, an agency created and established under 

the Code for the purpose, among others, of considering and making 

recommendations to the President as to any amendments of the 

Code. 

The effect of either all of, or certain provisions of, Articles IV, 

VI, and VII of the present Code as amended will expire prior 

to June 16, 1935. These provisions constitute to a great degTee the 

essential sub tance of the Code and, if lost, it is highly probable 

that the Code will no longer effectuate the purposes of Cvngress 

as expressed in the National Industrial Recovery Act. It is considered that, if the Code be continued under the Act, the request 

of the National Bituminous Coal Industrial Board to continue 

until June 16, 1935 the existing wage scales and other provisions 

of the Code which expire April 1, 1935 is fair, and it is believed, 

and we have accordingly so found, that the amendment which has 

been presented to the Administration by the National Bituminous 

Coal Industrial Board is as well designed to accomplish the results 

intended as the actual circumstances allow. 

FINDINGS 

The Acting Deputy Administrator in his final report to us on the 

amendment to the Code of Fair Competition for the Bituminous 

Coal Industry having· found as herein set forth and on the basis of 

all proceedings in this matter: 

'Ve find that: 

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

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 dimini h the amount thereof, and will provide for the general welfare by promoting 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 com- petitive practices, by promoting the fullest possible utilization of 

ihe 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 prod-

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ucts by increasing purchasing power, by reducing and relieving 

unemployment, by improving standards of labor, and otherwise by 

rehabilitating industry and conserving natural re ources. 

(b) The Code as amended complies 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 National Bituminous Coal Industrial 

Board to consider and to make recommendations to the President 

as to any amendments of this Code. 

(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 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. 

Said amendment is accordingly approved to become effective 

immediately. 

For the National Industrial Recovery Board: 

MARCH 30, 1935. 

DoNALD R. RrcHBERG, 

Acting 0 hairrnan. 
:Al\1ENDl\1ENT TO CODE OF FAIR COl\1PETITION FORTI-IE 

BITUl\1INOUS COAL INDUSTRY 

Add a new sentence to, immediately to follow the present provision of, and to become a part of, Article XI to read as follows: 

" This Code and all the provisions thereof, despite any provisions 

to the contrary contained therein and especially, but without limitation to, those provisions of Articles IV, VI, and VII providing for 

a time limitation upon the effect of such provisions or any of them, 

which may provide that the effect of such provisions or any of them 

shall terminate prior to June 16, 1935, shall remain effective to and 

including June 16, 1935." 

Approved Code No. 24.-Amendment No. 8. 

l1egistry No. 702-45. 

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