NATIONAL RECOVERY ADMINISTRATION 

CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

CHUCK INDUSTRY 

AS SUBMITTED ON AUGUST 23, 1933 

REGISTRY No. 1149-09 

The Code for the Chuck Industry 

in its present form merely reflects the proposal of the above-mentioned 

industry, and none of the provisions contained therein are 

to be regarded as having received the approval of 

the National Recovery Administration 

as applying to this industry 

WE DO OUR PART 

UNITED STATES 

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 

WASHINGTON : 1933 

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THE CHUCK INDUSTRY 

CODE OF FAIR TRADE PRACTICE, ADOPTED AUGUST 8, 1933 

PREAMBLE 

The group presenting this code, and whose individual names are 

attached hereto, represents more than seventy-five (75) percent of the 

industry, both as to numbers of manufacturers and productive 

capacity. 

· The purpose of this code is to increase employment, to improve 

standards and wages of labor, to establish maximum hours of employment, to eliminate unfair competitive practices, and to improve 

conditions in our industry generally. 

This code is conceived as being fair to employees, competitors, 

distributors, and consumers. 

It is not the purpose of this code to promote monopoly or to eliminate or oppress small enterprises, and will not operate to discriminate 

against them. 

To effectuate the policy of Title I of the National Industrial Recovery Act, the following provisions are established as a National Industrial Recovery Code for the Chuck Manufacturing Industry. 

SECTION 1. DEFINITIONS: The term "Chuck Manufacture" as 

used herein is defined to mean the manufacture for sale of Chucks of 

any nature, and other similar attachments, and their component 

parts, which are used as an attachment for power-operated tools 

whether chucks or other similar attachments are operated by air, 

power, or manually. The term "person" as used herein shall include 

natural persons, partnerships, associations, and corporations. The 

term "employer" as used herein shall include every person promoting, 

or actively engaged in, the manufacture for sale of the products of the 

Chuck Industry as herein defined. The term "effective date" as 

used herein is defined to be the eleventh day after this code shall have 

been approved by the President of the United States. 

SEc. II. As required by Section 7 (a) of Title I of the National 

Industrial Recovery Act, the following provisions are conditions of 

this Code: 

(1) That employees shall have the right to organize and bargain collectively 

through representatives of their own choosing, and shall be free from the interference, restraint, or coercion of employers of labor, or their agents, in the designation of such representatives or in self-organization or in other concerted activities for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection; 

(2) that no employee and no one seeking employment shall be required as a condition of employment to join any company union or to refrain from joining, 

organizing, or assisting a labor organization of his own choosing; and (3) that 

employers shall comply with the maximum hours of labor, minimum rates of pay, 

and other conditions of employment approved or prescribed by the President. 

It is clearly understood that the foregoing paragraphs do not impair 

in any particular the constitutional rights of the employee and 

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employer to bargain individually or collectively as may be mutually 

satisfactory to them; nor does it impair the joint right of employer 

and employee to operate an open shop. 

Nothing in this code is to prevent the selection, retention, and 

advancement of employees on the basis of their individual merit, 

without regard to their affiliation or nonaffiliation with any labor 

organization. 

SEc. III. Subject to the approval of the President, the undersigned 

agree: 

1. Not to employ any person under sixteen years of age. 

2. Not to work any accounting, clerical, office, service, or sales 

employees, except outside salesmen and outside service men, for more 

than forty hours in any one week or more than eight hours in any 

one day. 

3. Not to employ any factory, or mechanical worker, or artisan, 

more than a maximum week of forty hours in any one week or more 

than eight hours in any one day. 

4. The maximum hours fixed in the foregoing paragraphs 2 and 3 

shall not apply to employees in a managerial, executive, or supervisory 

capacity, nor to employees on emergency, maintenance, or repair 

work, or to very special cases, where restrictions of hours of highly 

skilled workers would unavoidably reduce production but in any 

such special case, at least time and one third shall be paid for hours 

worked in excess of the maximum. 

5. Not to pay any of the classes of employees mentioned in paragraph 2 less than 14 dollars a week: Provided, however, That casual 

and incidental labor and learners may be paid not less than 80% of 

such minimum wage but the total amount paid to such casual and 

incidental labor and learners shall not exceed in any calendar month 

5% of the total wages paid the class of employee as covered by this 

paragraph. 

6. Not to pay any employee of the classes mentioned in paragraph 3 

less than forty cents an hour unless the hourly rate for the same class 

of work on July 15, 1929, was less than the foregoing rates, in which 

latter case, not to pay less than the hourly rate on July 15, 1929, 

and in no event, less than thirty cents an hour: Provided, however, 

That casual and incidental labor and learners may be paid not less 

than 80% of such minimum wage but the total amount paid to such 

casual and incidental labor and learners shall not exceed in any 

calendar month 5% of the total wages paid the class of employee 

as covered by this paragraph. 

7. Not to use any subterfuge to frustrate the spirit and intent of 

this agreement which is among other things, to increase employment 

by a universal covenant to remove obstructions to commerce, and to 

shorten hours and to raise wages for the shorter week to a living basis. 

8. Where before June 16, 1933, the undersigned had contracted 

to purchase goods at a fixed price for delivery during the period of this 

agreement, the undersigned will, if requested, make an appropriate 

adjustment of said fixed price to meet any increase in cost caused by 

the seller having signed the President's reemployment agreement or 

having become bound by any code of fair competition approved by 

the President. 
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9. Chucks and their parts, with the exception of damaged or obsolete goods, shall not be sold below the cost of production. Such cost 

of production is to be based upon the existing price of raw material 

and labor, plus such overhead charges as have been or may be determined to be reasonable over a period of years. Obsolete or defective 

goods are to be stamped "Obsolete" or "Second." 

10. Definite resale prices shall be established to the consumer and a 

reasonable margin of profit shall be provided for the distributor. 

11. The sale of identical goods to educational institutions and to 

municipal, state, and Federal governments at lower prices than to 

other consumers in the same quantities shall not be made. 

12. The Executive Committee of the Chuck Association is hereby 

designated the agency for administrating, supervising, and promoting 

the performance of the provisions of this Code by the members of the 

Chuck Industry. 

SEc. IV. Any employer may participate in this Code and in any 

revisions or additions thereto and receive the benefits thereof by 

accepting the proper pro rate share of the cost and responsibility of 

creating and administering it, either by becoming a member of the 

Chuck Manufacturers Association or by paying to it an amount equal 

to the dues from time to time provided to be paid by a member in 

lilrn situation of the Chuck Manufacturers Association. 

SEc. V. The President may from time to time cancel or modify any 

order, approval, license, rule, or regulation issued under Title I of the 

National Industrial Recovery Act. 

SEc. VI. Such of the provisions of this Code as are not required by 

the National Industrial Revovery Act to be included herein may, 

with the approval of the President of the United States, be modified 

or eliminated as changed circumstances or experiences may indicate. 

This Code is intended to be a basic Code, and study of the trade 

practices of the Chuck Industry will be continued by members of the 

Chuck Industry with the intention of submitting from time to time 

additions to this Code applicable to all employers in the Chuck Manufacturing Industry. 

SEc. VII. If any employer of labor in the Chuck Manufacturing 

Industry is also an employer of labor in any other industry, the provisions of this Code shall apply to and effect only that part of his 

business which is inlcuded in the Chuck Manufacturing Industry. 

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