Approved Code No.'"283-Amendment No.1 Registry No. 299-39 

NATIONAL RECOVERY ADMINISTRATION 

AMENDMENT TO 

CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

READY-MADE 

FURNITURE SLIP COVERS 

MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY 

AS APPROVED ON NOVEMBER 12, 1934 

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Approved Code No. 283-Amendinent No. 1 

AMENDMENT TO CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

READY-MADE FURNITURE SLIP COVERS 

MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY 

As Approved on November 12, 1934 

ORDER 

APPROVING A~rnNDMENT OF CoDE OF FAIR CoMPETITION FOR TH:rn 

READY-MADE FuRNITURE SLIP CovERs MANUFACTURING INDusTRY 

An application having been duly made pursuant to and in full 

compliance with the provisions o.f Title I of the National Industrial 

Recovery Act, approved June 16, 1933, for approval of an amendment to the Code o.f Fair Competition for the Ready-Made Furniture 

Slip Covers Nlanufacturing Industry, and an opportunity to be heard 

thereon having been given and the annexed report on said amendment, containing findings with respect thereto, having been madG 

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 amended to include an approval of 

said Code in its entirety as amended. 

NATIONAL INDUSTRIAL REcovERY BoARD, 

By W. A. HARRIMAN, Administrative Offioe1\ 

Approval recommended: 

PRENTiss L. CooN LEY, 

Acting Division ArPrninistrator. 

vVAsHINGToN, D. c., 

November 1B, 1934. 

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REPORT TO THE PRESIDENT 

The PRESIDENT, 

The White Howse. 

Srn: This is a report on an amendment to the Code o:f Fair Competition for the Ready-Made Furniture Slip Covers Manufacturing 

Industry. The amendment which is attached was presented by the 

Code Authority. 

Notice of opportunity to be heard was given and no objections 

have been received. 

Article VII, Section 4, is amended to include the mandatory assessment clause contained in the executive Order No. 6678, dated April 

14, 1934. 

FINDINGS 

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 proceedings in this matter: 

We find that: 

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

well designed to promote the policies and purposes of Title I o:f the 

National Industrial Recovery Act including the removal of obstructions to the free flow o:f interstate and foreign commerce which tend 

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

welfare by promoting the organization o:f industry for the purpose 

of cooperative action among trade groups, by inducing and maintaining united action o:f 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 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 

unemployment, by improving standards o:f 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 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 discriminate against them. 

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(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 the above reasons this amendment ha been approved. 

For the National Industrial Recovery Board : 

NOVEMBER 12, 1934. 

,v. A. H ARRI:i\I AN, 

AdministTative Of{ice1·. 
AMENDMENT TO CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION FOR 

THE READY-MADE FURNITURE SLIP COVERS MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY 

Section 4 of Article VII shall be amended to read as follows: 

" 4.-I. 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. 

II. Each member 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 

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. 

III. 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 its 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." 

Sections 6 (g) and (h) of Article VII shall be omitted. 

Approved Code No. 28'3-Amendment No. 1. 

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