Approved Code No. 79-Amendment No. 2 Registry No. 226-1-06 

NATIONAL RECOVERY ADMINISTRATION 

AMENDMENT TO 

CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

NOVELTY CURTAINS, DRAPERIES 

BEDSPREADS AND NOVELTY PILLOWS 

INDUSTRY 

AS APPROVED ON AUGUST 24, 1934 

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Approved Code No. 79-Amendrnent No. 2 

AMENDMENT TO CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

NOVELTY CURTAINS, DRAPERIES, BEDSPREADS 

AND NOVELTY PILLOWS INDUSTRY 

As Approved on August 24, 1934 

ORDER 

APPROVING MODIFICATION OF CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION FOR THE 

NOVELTY CURTAINS, DRAPERIES, BEDSPREADS AND NOVELTY PILLOWS 

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 a modification of a Code of Fair Competition for the Novelty Curtains, 

Draperies, Bedspreads and Novelty Pillows Industry, and an opportunity to file objections thereon having been given and the annexed 

report on said modification, c::mtaining findings with respect thereto, 

having been made and directed to the President: 

NO"\iV, 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 inc,orporate, by reference, said 

annexed report and do find that said modification and the Code as 

constituted after being modified comply in all respects with the 

pertinent provisions and will promote the policy and purposes of 

said Title iof said Act, and do hereby order that said m.odification 

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 modified. 

HuaH S. JoHNSONj 

Administrator for Industrial R ecovery. 

Approval recommended: 

ROBERT L. HOUSTON' 

Division Adm-inistrator. 

,v ASHINGTON, D.C. 

August 934, 1934. 

82317°-1044-119-84 (1) 
REPORT TO THE PRESIDENT 

The PRESIDENT, 

The 1V hite H ou.'3e. 

Srn : This is a report on the Hearing on an amendment to the 

Code of Fair Competition for the Novelty Curtains, Draperies, 

Bedspreads and Novelty Pillows Industry, held in Room 2062, 

Department of Commerce Building, on May 31, 1934. The amendment, which is attached, was presented by the Domestic Decorative 

Linens Association, Inc., said to represent more than 80% by volrnne of production and 60% by number of concerns in the Dorn.estic 

Decorative Linen Industry. 

In {LCCordance with customary procedure, every person who had 

filed a request for an appearance was freely heard in public, and 

all statutory and regulatory requirements were complied with. 

This arnendrn.ent brings within the definition of the Code the 

Domestic Decorative Linens Industry. The Industry comprises 

approximately thirty-five (35) concerns having an investment in 

1933 of $1,100,000. In 1929 the Industry provided employment for 

2,200 workers. This figure had declined to 1,750 employees in 1933 

before the President's Reemployment Agreement and approximately 

1,800 employees after the President's Reemployment Agreement. 

Aggregate annual sales fell from $6,250,000 in 1928 to $4,750,000 in 

1931. Sales for the year 1933 increased to about $5,500,000. 

According to the testimony at the Hearing there are a number of 

concerns in the Industry paying as low as $9.00 a week for forty 

( 40) hours of work. The minimUJn wage under the Code is $.325 

per hour or $13.00 per week. It is claimed that the effect of coming 

under this Code will be to increase employment by approximately 

300 workers. 

The amendment, besides changing the definition of the Industry 

to include domestic decorative linens, sets up a Committee to administer the fair trade practice provisions for this branch of the 

Industry and includes two additional fair trade practices to · apply 

only to domestic decorative linens manufacturers. 

FINDINGS 

The Deputy Administrator in his final report to me on said 

amendment to said Code having found as herein set forth and on 

the basis of all the proceedings in this matter : 

I find that: 

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

"ell 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 commerce which tencl 

to diminish the amount therec-f, and will provide for the general 

(2) 
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welfare by promoting the organization of industry for the purpose 

of comparative action a.mono- trade groups, by inducing and maintaining united action of labor and management under adequate 

governmental sanction and supervi ion, by eliminating unfair com- petitive practices, by promoting the fullest possible utilization of 

the present productive capacity of industries, by avoiding undne 

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 relie-ving 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 applicant association is an industrial association truly 

representative of the aforesaid Domestic Decorative Linens Ind1rtry 

and said association imposes no inequitable restrictions on admission 

to membership therein. The Code empowers the Code Authority 

to assent to the aforesaid amendment on behalf of the Industry as 

a whole. 

( d) The amend1nent 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 proc ss have not 

been deprived of the right to be heard prior to approval of said 

amendment. 

For the above reasons this amendment has been approved by m . 

Respectfully, 

AUGUST 24, 1934. 

H CTGH s. tT OHNSON' 

Adm,inistrator. 
PAMENDMENT TO CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION FOR 

THE NOVELTY CURTAINS, DRAPERIES, BEDSPREADS 

AND NOVELTY PILLOWS INDUSTRY 

Section 1 of Article II shall be amended by adding : 

"The term 'Industry' shall also include a Domestic Decorative 

Linens Branch. The term 'Domestic Decorative Linens Branch' 

of the Novelty Curtains, Draperies, Bedspreads and Novelty Pillows 

Industry as used herein means and includes the manufacture of 

domestic decorative linens which are defined as table covers, scarfs 

and doilies used for the decoration of the home, and the using or 

hiring of equipment or the engaging or hiring of anyone owning 

or hiring equipment to perform the operation of m.aking chiefly 

or wholly of piece goods, nets, netting, laces and embroideries into 

domestic decorative linens (made by cutting apart and/ or sewing 

together out of the same materials, or out of the same materials in 

combination with other materials employing plain or fancy stitching, embroideries, laces, or appliques in conjunction therewith). The 

term 'Industry' does not include the weaving of fabrics and/or 

laces." 

Article V shall be amended by adding Section 9 : 

" 9. The doing of work or the performance of labor on any product 

of the Domestic Decorative Linens Branch of the Industry in the 

home of a worker shall be prohibited." _ 

Paragraph 1, Section 1 of Article VI shall be amended to read 

as follows: 

"To further effectuate the policy of the Act a Code Authority is 

hereby designated to cooperate with the Administrator in the Admintration of this Code. The Code Authority shall consist of the Board 

of Directors qf the Association and one representative of the Domestic Decorative Linens Branch elected by the Domestic Decorative 

Linens Association, Inc., and such additional representatives of the 

Industry as shall be selected by a fair method of selection to be 

approved by the Administrator, or as the Administrator shidl prescribe; and up to three advisory members without vote who may be 

appointBd by the Administrator." 

Paragraph 4, Section 1 of Article VI shall be amended to read 

as follows: 

"In order that the Code Authority and the Domestic Decorative 

Linens Committee shall at all times be truly representative of the 

Industry and in other respects comply with the provisions of the Act, 

the Administrator may provide such h arings as he may deem 

proper; and thereafter if he shall find that the Code Authority or the 

Domestic Decorative Linens Committee is not truly representative or 

does not in other re pects comply with the provisions of the Act, may 

require an appropriate modification in the method of selection of the 

Code Authority and/or the Domestic Decorative Linens Committee." 

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Section 2 of Article VI shall be amended by adding Sub-section 

( d) : 

" ( d) For the purpose of administering the fair trade practice 

provisions of the Code relating to the Domestic Decorative Linens 

Branch, the members of the Domestic Decorative Linens Branch of 

the Industry shall elect a Domestic Decorative Linens Committee. 

The members of the Domestic Decorative Linens Committee shall be 

elected in a manner approved by the Administrator, and need not be 

members of the Code Authority. The Administrator may appoint 

up to three representatives without vote to serve on this com1nittee." 

Section 13 of Article VII shall be amended by adding : 

"This provision shall not apply to the Domestic Decorative Linens 

Branch of the Industry." 

Article XII shall be added: 

"The following practices constitute unfair methods of competition 

for members of the Domestic Decorative Linens Branch of the Industry and are prohibited: 

"1. Variance of more than three per cent (3%) in either width 

or length from sizes marked on Domestic Decorative Linens. 

"2. {a) Selling or offering to sell any article on the condition, express or implied in fact, that the purchaser buy another article or 

articles; 

"(b) Selling or offering to sell several articles in group or combination at a single lot or group price, except articles which are commonly sold in sets or ensemble, unless the price of ~ach unit in the 

group or combination be stated to the purchaser." 

Approved Code No. 79--Amendment No. 2. 

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