Approved Code No. 177-Amendment No. 1 Registry No. 1223-1-02 

NATIONAL RECOVERY ADMINISTRATION 

AMENDMENT TO 

CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

SILVERWARE 

MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY 

AS APPROVED ON OCTOBER 15, 1934 

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Approved Code No. 177-Amendment No. 1 

AMENDMENT TO CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

SILVERWARE MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY 

As Approved on Octobe·r 15, 1934 

ORDER 

APPROVING AMENDMENT OF CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION FOR THE 

SILVERWARE 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 Silverware Manufacturing Industry, and hearings having been duly held thereo,n 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, 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, such approval and such amendment to take effect fifteen (15) days from the date hereof, unless 

good cause to the contrary is shown to the National Industrial 

Recovery Board before that time and the National Industrial 

Recovery Board issues a subsequent order to that effect. 

NATIONAL INDUSTRIAL RECO\'ERY BOARD, 

By G. A. LYNCH, Administrative Officer. 

Approval recommended: 

IDLBOURNE JOHNSTON' 

Acting Division Administrat01·. 

w ASHINGTON, D. c., 

Ootober 15, 1934. 

91372°-1244-54--34 (1) 
REPORT TO THE PRESIDENT 

The PRESIDENT, 

The White House. 

Srn: The Code Authority for the Silverware Manufacturing Industry submitted on July 14, 1934, a request for the Amendm~mt of 

their Code to provide for the mandatory collections of the expenses 

of the maintenance of the Code Authority from each member of the 

Industry on an equitable basis to be approved by the National Recovery Administration. 

On July 19, a notice of opportunity to file criticisms, objections, or 

suggestions concerning said Amendment was is ued. The replies 

thereto were given careful consideration and study. 

The Deputy Administrator in his final report on said Amendment 

to said Code having found as herein set forth and on the basis of 

all the proceedings in this matter: 

It is found 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 conunerce which 

tend to diminish 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 competitive practices, by promoting the fullest possible utilization of 

the present productive capacity of industries, by avoiding undue restrictions 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 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 Amendment and the Code as amended are not designed 

to and will not permit monopolies or monopolistic practices. 

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

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

operated to discriminate against them. 

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( e) 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 Recovery Board. 

OCTOBER 15, 1934. 

G. A. LYNCH, 

Adminutrative Officer. 
AMENDMENT TO CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION FOR THE 

SILVERWARE MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY 

Article VII of the Code is amended by the following additions 

and deletions : 

1. Subsection ( d) of Section 1 is deleted completely. 

2. Subsection ( e) of Section 1 becomes Subsection ( d) of Section 1. 

3. Substitute for Subsection (g) of Section 2 the following: 

(g) 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 itemize l budget of its estimated 

expenses for the foregoing purpo es, and (2) an equitable basis upon 

which the funds necessary to upport 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. 

2. Each 1nember 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 National Industrial Advisory 

Board. Only members of the industry complying with the code and 

contributing to the expenses of its administration as hereinabove 

pro-videcl, ( unle s duly exempted from making such contributions,) 

shall be entitled to participate in the selection of members of the 

ode Authority or to receive the benefits of any of its voluntary 

activities or to make use of any emblem or insignia of the National 

lndustrial Re overy Administration. 

3. The Code Authority hall neither incur nor I ay any obligation , ·ub tantially in exce of the amount thereof a timated in its 

ar proved budget, and hall in no event exceed the total amount 

c ntain d in the approved budget, except upon approval of the 

rational Indu. trial Recovery Board; and no subsequent budget shall · ntain any defici ncy item for xp nditures in xc of prior budg t . tinrnt except tho · which the National Industrial Recovery Board 

hall have so a1 proved. 

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4. Delete Section 3 and substitute therefor the following: 

Each trade or industrial association directly or indirectly participating in the selection or activities o:f the Code Authority shall (1) 

impose no inequitable restrictions on membership, and (2) submit to 

the National Industrial Recovery Board true copies o:f its articles 

o:f association, by-laws, regulations, and any amendments when made 

thereto, together with such other information as to membership, 

organization, and activities as the National Indu."trial Recovery 

Board may deem necessary to effectuate the purposes o:f the Act. 

Approved Code No. 177-Amendment No. 1. 

Registry No. 1223-1-02. 

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