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Approved Code No. 288-Amendment No. 2 Registry No. 507-1--05 

NATIONAL RECOVERY ADMINISTRATION 

AMENDMENT TO 

CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

DAILY NEWSPAPER 

PUBLISHING BUSINESS 

AS APPROVED ON MAY 2, 1935 

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Approved Code No. 288-Amendment No. 2 

AMENDMENT TO CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHING BUSINESS 

As Approved on May 2, 1935 

ORDER 

APPROVING AMENDMENT OF CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION FOR THE 

D AILY NEWSPAPER P UBLISHING BUSINESS 

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 Daily Newspaper 

Publishing Business 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, t~e National Industrial Recovery Board, pursuant to authority vested in _jt by Executive Orders of the President, including 

Executive Order No. 6859, and otherwise, does hereby incorporate 

by reference said annexed re.port and does find that said amendment 

and said Code as constituted after being so amended complies 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 he and it is hereby approv€d, and that 

the previous approval of said Code is hereby amended to include 

a.pproval of said Code in its entirety as amended. 

NATIONAL INDUSTRIAL RECOVERY BOARD, 

By W. A. H ARIUMAN, Administrative Officer. 

Approval recommended: 

JACK B. TATE, 

Division Adrrninistrator. 

GusTAV PEoK, 

Assistant to the Aaministrative Officer. 

WASHINGTON, D. c., 

May 2, 1935. 

133977°-1844-7-35 (1) 
REPORT TO THE PRESIDENT 

The PRESIDENT, 

The 1¥ hite House. 

Srn: This is a report on the proposed amendment to the Code of 

Fair Competition for the Daily Newspaper Publishing Business, 

approved Code No. 288. The · amendment applies specifically to 

hours and wages for news department employees and is in the form 

of an additional Section 3 to Article III and an additional Section 

5 to Article IV. A Notice of Public Hearing, Administrative Order 

No. 98--C was issued December 27, 1934, and a Public Hearing was 

held on January 17, 1935, at which Heari1ig an opportunity was 

given to all in terestnd parties to present to the National Industrial 

Recovery Board facts pertinent to the proposed amendment. 

The hours of work proposed for news department employees 

shall be those provided in Article III, Section 1, paragraph 1 of 

the Code, but the definition of news department employees does not 

apply to persons employed in a managerial or executive capacity, 

to editorial writers, to employees on out of town assignment, nor 

to correspondents ( except where a permanent bureau of two or 

more full-time correspondents is maintained.) 

The minimum wage for full-time, salaried news department 

employees, will be determined by the population of the community 

in which the business of the employer is located, there being six 

broad classifications. Part time employees will receive pro rata 

rates based on the scale of minjmum wages. Cub reporters will be 

paid not less than seventy per cent (70%) of the wage called for 

in the scale. Learners and apprentices, copy and office boys or 

girls, and employees engaged in clerical, filing or statistical work 

will be paid in accordance with the provisions of Article IV, Section 1 of the Code. 

The Division Administrator, in his final report on the amendment to the Code, having :found as herein set :forth, and on the 

basis of all the proceedings on this matter: 

We find that : 

(a) Amendment to said Code is well designed to promote the policies and purposes of Title I of the National Industrial Recovery Act 

including the removal of ob tructions to the free flow of inter tate 

and :foreign commerce which tend to dimini h the amount thereof, 

and will provide for the general welfare by promoting the orcranization of industry for th purpose of cooperative action among 

trade group , by indu ing and maintaining united action of labor 

and manacr m nt under adequate gov rnmental sanction and supervision, by eliminating unfair c mp titive practi e , by promotinO' 

th full t po. ible utilizati n of th pr nt produ tive capa ity 

of in ustri , by av i<lincr un<lu r tri ti n of produ tion ( exc pt as 

may be t mp rarily r quired), by in T a ing the onsumpbon of in-

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dustrial 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 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. 

( 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 the amendment has been approved. 

For the National Industrial Recovery Board: 

MAY 2, 1935. 

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w. A. H ARRIMAN, 

Administrative Officer. 
AMENDMENT TO CODE OFF AIR COMPETITION FOR THE 

DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHING BUSINESS 

ARTICLE III 

SECTION 3. The hours of work for news department employees 

shall be those provided in Section 1, Paragraph 1, of this Article. 

The provisions of this section shall not apply to persons employed 

in a managerial, executive or personal capacity, to editorial writers, 

to employees on out of town assignments, nor to correspondents except where a permanent bureau of two or more full time correspondents is maintained. 

ARTICLE IV 

SECTION 5. The minimum wage for full time, salaried news department workers engaged principally in the gathering, writing or 

editing of news, (including photographers and artists so engaged) 

shall be as specified in the following schedule: 

Population of City- Minimum Wage Less than 10,000 _______________________________________ $12.50 per week 

10,000 to 25,000 ________________________________________ $15. 00 per week 

25,000 to 50,000 ________________________________________ $18. 00 per week 

50,000 to 250,000--------------------------------------- $20. 00 per week 

250,000 to 500,000------------...,------------------------- $2·2. 00 per week Over 500,000 ___________________________________________ $25.00 per week 

Part time employees so engaged shall receive pro rata rates of 

the foregoing schedule. 

Cub reporters shall be paid not less than 70 per cent of the foregoing schedule. 

Minimum wages for learners and apprentices, copy and office boys 

or girls, and employees engaged in clerical, filing or statistical work 

shall be those provided in Section 1 of this Article. 

Approved Code No. 288-Amendment No. 2. 

Registry No. 507-1-05. 

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