Approved Code No. !-Amendment No.7 Registry No. 299-25 

NATIONAL RECOVERY ADMINISTRATION 

AMENDMENT TO 

CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

COTTON TEXTILE INDUSTRY 

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AS APPROVED ON JULY 10, 1934 

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Approved Code No. !-Amendment No. 7 

AMENDMENT TO CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

COTTON TEXTILE INDUSTRY 

As Approved on July 10, 1934 

ORDER 

AMENDING ConE OF FAIR CoMPETITION FOR THE CoTTON TExTILE 

INDUSTRY 

An amendment to the Code of Fair Competition for the Cotton 

Textile Industry having been approved on August 8, 1933, and an 

application having been duly made pursuant to and in full compliance with provisions of Title I of the National Industrial Recovery Act, approved June 16, 1933, for approval of the amendment of ceriJain provisions of said amendment, and it appearing 

desirable that certain other provisions of said amendment be 

amended, and annexed report on said amendments containing findings with respect thereto having been made and directed to the 

President; 

NOvV, THEREFORE, on behalf of the President of the United 

States, I, Hugh S. Johnson, Administrator for Industrial Recovery, 

pursuant to authority vested in me by Executive Orders of the President, including Executive Order No. 6543-A, dated December 30, 

1933, and otherwise, do hereby incorporate by reference said annexed 

report, and do find that said amendn1ents and Code as constituted 

after being amended, comply with all respects to the pertinent provisions and will promote the policy and purposes of said Title of said 

Act, and do hereby order that said amendments b.e and they hereby 

are approved, and that the previous approval of the amended portions of the Code are hereby modified to include an approval of said 

portions of the Code in their entirety as amended. 

Approval recommended: 

RoBERT L. HousTON, 

HuGHS. JoHNSON, 

Ad1ninistrator for Industrial Recovery. 

Division Adn1inistrator, 

'\VAsmNGTON, D.C. 

July 10, 193fr. 

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AMEND1MENT TO CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION FOR 

THE COTTON TEXTILE INDUSTRY 

Section XVII of the Code of Fair Competition for the Cotton 

Textile Industry shall be amended to read as follows: 

To make proper provision with regard to any problem of working 

conditions in the Cotton Textile Industry, including but without 

limitation all claims and complaints of discrimination, representation, incorrect entries on pay envelopes, unwarranted reductions in 

classification, increased stretch -out, alleged violations of Section 

7 (a) of the Industrial Recovery Act, and all other alleged violations 

of Code provisions affecting relations between employers and employees, it is provided: 

1. There shall be constituted by appointment of the Administra- tor a Cotton Textile National Industrial Relations Board, to be 

composed of five members, two to be nominated by the Cotton 

Textile Industry Committee · to represent the employers, two, o,t 

least one of whom shall be from the employees of the Cotton Textile Industry, to be nominated by the Labor Advisory Board of the 

National Recovery Administration to represent the employees, and 

a fifth to be selected by the Administrator. This National Board 

shall be provided by the National Recovery Administration with a 

per diem for actual days engaged in its work and with such secretarial and expert technical assistance as it may require in the performance of its duties. 

2. The Administrator upon the nom.ination of the Cotton Textile National Industrial Relations Board, shall appoint in each state 

in which the cotton textile industry operates a State Cotton Textile 

Industrial Relations Board composed of three members, one of 

whom shall be selected from the employers of the cotton textile 

industry, one from the e1nployees of the cotton textile industry, and 

a third to represent the public. 

3. Whenever, in any cotton textile mill a controversy shall arise 

between employer and employees involving any problem of working conditions, including but without limitation all claims and complaints of discrimination, representation, incorrect entries on pay 

envelopes, unwarranted reductions in classification, increased stretchout, all0ged violations of Section 7 (a) of the Industrial Recovery 

Act, and all other alleged violations of Code provisions affecting 

relations between employers and employees, the employer and employees may establish an industrial relations committee chosen by 

the management and by the employees of the mill and on which the 

employer and employees shall have equal representation o£ not more 

than three representatives each. If such a committee is not otherwise established, the employer or the employee, or both, may apply 

to the State Industrial Relations Board for assistance and cooperation in the establishment of such industrial relations committee. 

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The term of service of each such committee shall be limited to the 

adjustment of such controversy or problem of working conditions 

for the adjustment of which the committee was created. 

If the repre entatives of the employers and of the employees in 

such industrial relations committee are unable to arrive at an agreement and united action with re pect to such differences of opinion, 

the representatives of the employers or of the employees, or both, 

may appeal to the State Indu trial Relations Boar 1 for cooperation 

and assistance in arriving at an agreem_e nt and united action. 

It shall be the duty of such Inclu trial Relations Committee to endeavor to adjust such controv rsy. In cases where such committee 

reaches agreement with respect to any such controversy, such agTeement shall be final except that it shall be submitted to the Cotton 

Textile :National Industrial Relation Board for revie" and approval 

under such regulations as such National Board may establi h. 

This provision for such industrial relations committee hall be so 

construed as to perm_it the employees freely to choo e their own representative in full compliance with the provision of Section 7 (a) of 

the Industrial Recovery Act. 

4. It shall be the duty of the State Industrial Relation Board, 

where their assi tance is reque ted, as provided in subsection 3, to 

cooperate with employers and employees in organizing such industrial relations committees and to cooperate with such committees in 

the development of conference procedures and in the adju tment of 

differences of opinion with respect to the operation or introduction 

of the stretch-out system and other problems of working conditions. 

In the event that the State Industrial Relations Board is unable to 

bring about agreement and united action of labor and management in 

a controversy so appealed to it, such State Industrial Relations 

Board shall present the controversy to the National Industrial Relations Board for hearing and final adjustment. 

5. The National Industrial Relations Board shall hear and finally 

determine all such questions brought before it on appeal by the State 

Industrial Relations Boards and certify its decisions to the Administrator and shall have authority to codify the experience of the 

industrial relations committees of the various mills and state boards 

with a view to establishing standards of general practice with respect 

to the stretch -out (or specialization) system or other problems of 

working conditions. 

Approved Code No. 1-Amendment 7. 

Registry 299---25. 

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