Registry No. 1399-1-10 

NATIONAL RECOVERY ADMINISTRATION 

CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

LAUNDRY AND DRY CLEANING 

MACHINERY MANUFACTURING 

INDUSTRY 

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AS APPROVED ON OCTOBER 3, 1933 

BY 

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT 

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1. Executive Order 

2. Letter of Transmitt al \ ~ 

3. Code 

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EXECUTIVE ORDER 

CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION FOR THE LAUNDRY AND DRY CLEANING 

MAcHINERY MANUFACTURING IxnuSTRY 

.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 my approval of a Code 

of Fair Competition for the Laundry and Dry Cleaning ~Iachinery 

Manufacturin~ Industry, and hearings having been held thereon 

and the Administrator having rendered his report containing an 

analysis of the said Code of Fair Competition, together with his 

recommendations and findings with respect thereto, and the Administrator having found that the said Code of Fair Competition 

complies in all respects with the pertinent provisions of title I of 

said Act and that the requirements of clauses (1) and (2) of subsection (a) of Section 3 of the said Act have been met: 

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the 

United States, pursuant to the authority vested in me by title I of 

the National Industrial Recovery Act, approved June 16, 1933, and 

otherwise, do adopt and approve the report, recommendations, and 

findin_&s of the Administrator and do order that the said Code o-f 

Fair liompetition be and is hereby approved. 

THE WHITE HousE 

Sepiem,ber 1933. 

Approval recommended: 

HUGH s. JOHNSON, 

Admlinistrator. 

14250°-133-168-83 

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT. 

(III) 
SEPTEMBER 25, 1933. 

THE PRESIDENT, 

The White House. 

MY DEAR MR. PRESIDENT: I have the honor to submit and recommend for your approval the Code of Fair Competition for the 

Laundry and Dry Cleaning Machinery Manufacturing Industry. 

The following exhibits are included or attached : 

2 Notice of Hearing. 

3 Statement of Procedure. 

ll Final Code Submitted. 

4 Transcript of the Records. 

5) Statistical Analysis of the Division of Economic Research 

e.n Planning. 

( 6) Report of Deputy Administrator. 

An analysis of the provisions of the Code has been made by the 

Administration. I find that the Code complies with the requirements of Clauses 1 and 2, Subsection (a) of Section 3 of the 

National Industrial Recovery Act. 

I am, my dear Mr. President, 

Very sincerely yours, 

(IV) 

HUGH 8. JOHNSON, 

.Administrator. 
CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION FOR THE LAUNDRY AND DRY 

CLEANING MACHINERY M~NUFACTURING INDUSTRY 

To effectuate the policies of Title I of the National Industrial 

Recovery Act, the following{rovisions upon approval by the President shall be the standard o fair competition for the Laundry and 

Dry Cleaning Machinery Manufacturing Industry. 

ARTICLE I-DEFINITIONS 

The term" Laundry and Dry Cleaning Machinery Manufacturing 

Industry", as used herein, is defined to mean the inanufacture for 

sale of all laundry and dry cleaning apparatus, machinery, appliances, and parts thereof other than small machinery, apparatus, 

appliances, and parts thereof for use in the home. 

The term" employee", as used herein, includes any person engaged 

in any phase of the Industry, in any capacity, in the nature of employee irrespective of the method of I?ayment of his compensation. 

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

promoting or actively engaged in the manufacture for sale of the 

products of the Laundry and Dry Cleaning Machinery Manufacturing Industry, as herein defined. 

The term "person", as used herein, shall include, but without 

limitation, natural persons, partnerships, associations, trusts, 

trustees, trustees in bankruptcy, receivers and corporations. 

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. 

ARTICLE II-EMPLOYMENT 

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 employees 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. 

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ARTICLE III-WAGES 

(a) On and after the effective date employers sha.11 not employ 

any person under the age of 16 years; provided, however, that where 

a State law provides a higher minimum age, no person below the 

age specified by such State law shall be employed within that State. 

(b) On and after the effective date the minimum wage shall be 

paid by employers to any employee engaged in the production of the 

products of the Laundry and Dry Cleaning Machinery Manufacturing Industry and in labor operations directly incident thereto shall 

be 40 cents per hour; provided1 however, that casual and incidental 

labor and learners may be paid not less than 80 percent of such 

minimum wage, but the total number of casual and incidental laborers and learners shall not exceed 5 percent of the total number of 

employees covered by the provisions of this paragraph (b) and, 

provided further, that after three months of work learners shall be 

paid not less than the minimum wage herein provided and, provided, 

also, that female employees employed during the same hours of the 

day and for the same class of work as male employees shall be paid 

at the same rate of pay as such male employees. 

(c) On and after the effective date the minimum wage that shall 

be paid by any employer to all other employees shall be at the rate 

of $14.00 per week; provided, however, that office boys or girls, 

learners, and casual employees may be paid not less than 80 percent 

of such minimum wage but the total number of such office boys or 

girls, learners, and casual employees shall not exceed 5 percent of the 

total number of employees covered by the provisions of this paragraph (c). 

( d) Not later than ninety (90) days after the effective date each 

em:ployer in the Laundry and Dry Cleaning Machinery Manufacturing Industry shall report to the Administrator through the supervisory agency the action taken by such employer in adjusting the 

hourly wage rates for all employees receiving more than the minimum rates provided in paragraph (b) of this Article. 

( e) Employers shall not reclassify employees so as to defeat the 

purposes of the Act. 

(f) This Article guarantees a minimum wage whether employment 

is on a basis of hourly rate or piecework performance. 

ARTICLE IV-HOURS 

On and after the effective date employers shall not operate on a 

schedule of hours: 

(a) For employees engaged in the production of products of the 

Laundry and Dry Cleamng Machinery Manufacturing Industry and 

in labor operations directly incident thereto, in excess of 36 hours 

per week. 

(b) For all other employees, except executive, administrative, and 

supervisory employees, and service staff and traveling sales staff, 

in excess of 40 hours per week. 

Provided, however, that these limitations shall not apply to those 

branches of the Laundry and Dry Cleaning Machinery l\1anufacturing Industry in which seasonal or peak demand places an unusual 
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and temporary burden for production or installation upon such 

branches; in such cases no employee shall be permitted to work more 

than an aggregate of 72 hours in any calendar six-months' period 

in excess of the limitations hereinbefore provided, and, provided 

further, that such limitations shall not apply in cases of emergency; 

and, further provided, that in no case shall the average for any 

six-months' period be more than 36 hours for employees covered 

by the provisions of paragraph (a) above and 40 hours for employees covered by the provis:ons of paragraph (b) above. At the 

end of each calendar month every employer shall report to the 

Administrator, through the supervisory agency, hereinafter provided for, in such detail as may be required, the number of manhours worked in that montb for emergency reasons and the ratio 

which said emergency man-hours bear to the total number of manhours of labor during said month. 

Where in any case an employee is worked in excess of eight hours 

per day, time and one half shall be paid for the excess hours so 

worked. 

ARTICLE V-ADl\fINISTRATION 

Laundry and Dry Cleaners Machinery Manufacturers' Association 

is hereby designated the agency for promoting the performance o:f 

the provisions of this Code by the members of the Laundry and Dry 

Cleaning Machinery Manufacturing Industry. With a view to keeping the President of the United States and the Administrator informed as to the observance or nonobservance of this Code and as to 

whether the Laundry and Dry Cleaning Machinery Manufacturing 

Industry is takin~ appropriate steps to effectuate in all respects the 

declared policy ot the National Industrial Recovery Act, the supervisory agency shall make such reports as the Administrator may 

direct, periodically or as often as he may request, and each employer 

shall prepare and furnish, when required by the supervisory agency, 

to such organization or person as the supervisory agency may designate, an earnings statement and balance sheet in a form approved by 

the supervisory agency, or acceptable to any recognized stock exchange. Each employer shall, likewise, prepare and file with such 

person or organization as the supervisory agency may de.signate and 

at such times and in such manner as may be prescribed, statistics 

of plant capacity, volume of production, volume of sales in units and 

dollars, orders received, unfilled orders, stocks on hand, inventory, 

both raw and finished, number of persons employed, wage rates, employee earnings, hours of work, costs, prices quoted1 prices received, 

contracts made, and such other similar data or intormation as the 

supervisory agency may from time to time require to administer 

this Code. 

ARTICLE VI-SUPERVISORY AGENCY 

To administer and s1;I?ervise, and to facilitate the enforcement of 

the provisions of this Code, there shall be a committee of six members connected with the Industry called the Supervisory Agency, and 

the President or the Administrator may appoint not more than three 

additional members without vote. The Committee shall be elected 
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at a meeting o:f employers called irrunediately after the approval by 

the President of this Code and held immediately prior to the effective 

date thereof. The meeting shall be called by the Laundry and Dry 

Cleaners ].fachinery ].fanufacturers' Association and notice thereof 

shall be sent by telegraph and registered mail to all known manufacturers of laundry and dry-cleaning machinery. The notice shall 

specifically state that voting at the meeting may be in person or by 

proxy. The members of the committee shall be elected by a vote of 

the employers present in person or by proxy at such meeting, passed 

in two ways: (a) by a majority vote of employers present in person 

or by proxy as such, and (b) by a seventy-five (75) percent vote by 

employers present in person or by proxy, weighted on the basis of 

one vote for each $50,000 of sales of products of the Industry made 

in the calendar year 1932, as reported to the Secretary of the Laundry 

and Dry Cleaners Machinery Manufacturers' Association, but each 

employer shall have at least one vote. Vacancies in the committee 

due to death or resignation or because a member thereof has ceased 

to be connected with the Industry shall be filled by the remaining 

members of the committee. 

If formal complaint is made to the Laundry and Dry Cleaners 

Machinery Manufacturers' Association or to the supervisory agency 

that the provisions of this Code have been violated by any employer, 

~he supervisory agency shall make such investigation as in its opinion 

1s necessary. 

ARTICLE VII-STATISTICS-CONFIDENTIAL 

Except as otherwise provided in the National Industrial Recovery 

Act, all statistics, data, and information filed in accordance with 

the provisions of Article V shall be confidential and the statistics, 

data, and information of one employer shall not be revealed to 

any other employer except that for the purpose of facilitating the 

administration and enforcement of the provisions of this Code, any 

and all statistical data furnished in accordance with the provisions 

of this Code shall be available to the Supervisory Agency by its 

duly authorized representative ( who shall not be in the employ o:f 

any employer affected by this Code) and to the Administrator. 

ARTICLE VIII-CooE OPEN To ALL EMPLOYERS 

Any member of the Laundry and Dry Cleaning Machinery Manufacturing Industry is eligible for membership in the Laundry and 

Dry Cleaners Machinery Manufacturers' Association and there shall 

be no inequitable restrictions on such membership. Any employer 

shall be entitled to vote on and share in the benefits of the activities 

of the supervisory agency and may participate in any endeavors 

of the Laundry and Dry Cleaners Machinery Manufacturers' Association in the preparation of any revisions of, or addition or supplements to, this Code by accepting his proper pro rata share of 

the reasonable cost of creating and administering it, as determined 

by the supervisory agency subJect to review by the Administrator. 
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ARTICLE IX-AccouNTING AND CosTING 

Every employer shall use an accounting system and a costing system which conforms to the principles of and is at least as detailed 

and complete as the uniform and standard method of accounting and 

the uniform and standard method of costing to be formulated or 

approved by the supervisory agency and subject to review by the 

Administrator, with such variations therefrom as may be required 

by the individual conditions affecting any employer or group 0£ 

employers and as may be approved by the supervisory agency and 

made supplements to the said formulated or approved methods of 

accounting and costing. 

ARTICLE X-SELLING BELOW CosT 

No employer shall sell or exchange any product of his manufacture 

at a price or upon terms or conditions that will result in the customer 

paying for the goods received less than the cost to the seller determined in accordance with the uniform and standard method of 

costing hereinabove prescribed; provided, however, that discontinued 

types or inventories which should be converted into cash may be disposed of in such manner and on such terms and conditions as the 

supervisory agency may approve and as are necessary to moYe such 

product into buyers' hands. 

ARTICLE XI-PRICE LISTS 

As it has been the generally recognized practice in the Laundry 

and Dry Cleaning Manufacturing Industry to sell its products on 

the basis of printed price lists, with discount sheets and fixed terms 

of payment, each employer shall within ten (10) days after the 

effective date file with the supervisory agency a price list and discount sheet individually prepared by him showing his current prices_., 

discounts, and terms of payment, and the supervisory agency shall 

immediately send copies thereof to all lmown manufacturers of 

laundry and dry-cleaning machinery. Employers who begin to sell 

the products of the Industry after the effective date shall file with 

the supervisory agency 10 days before making any quotations a price 

list and discount sheet showing current prices, discounts, and terms 

of payment, and the supervisory agency shall immediately send 

copies thereof to all known manufacturers of laundry and dry-cleaning machinery. Revised price lists or discount sheets covering any 

specific product may be filed from time to time by any employer with 

the supervisory agency to be effective on the date specified therein, 

which shall be not less than 10 days after such filing, and copies 

thereof shall be immediately sent to all lmown employers who thereupon may file, if they so desire, revisions of their price lists or discount sheets to meet such revised price lists or discount sheets which 

shall become effective upon the date when the revised price list or 

discount sheet first filed shall go into e:ff ect. 

No employer shall sell directly or indirectly by any means whatsoever any product of the Industry at a price lo\\'er or at discount.s 
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~reater or on more favorable terms of payment than those provided 

11?- his current price lists and discount sheets on file with the supervisory agency. 

ARTICLE XII-TRADE-IN ALLOWANCES 

No employer shall make any allowance for apparatus, machinery, 

or appliances taken in trade in excess of the amount fixed in the 

standard list of trade-in allowances approved from time to time 

by the supervisory agency and filed in the office of the Secretary 

of the Laundry and Dry Cleaners Machinery Manufacturers' 

Association. 

No employer shall sell, as is and where is, any apparatus, machinery, or applianc·es taken in trade for less than the amount of the 

kade-1n allowance to the buyer from whom taken. 

ARTICLE XIII-TERMS OF p A YMENT 

Tenns of payment on apparatus, machinery, and appliances shall 

not exceed three J?er cent, cash discount for payment in thirty (30) 

days or sixty ( 60) days net from date of invoice. 

Terms of payment on service and parts shall not exceed two 

percent cash discount for payment by the tenth of the month 

following shipment, sixty ( 60) days net from date of invoice. 

No invoice shall be dated later than five ( 5) days after the date 

of shipment covered by the invoice. 

No invoice shall be rendered to a customer for less than a minimum 

charge of fifty cents ( 50¢). 

Interest shall be charged on all accounts beginning sixty (60) 

days after date of invoice at a rate of interest not less than six (6) 

percent per annum. 

ARTICLE XIV-DEFERRED p AYMENT PLAN SALES 

No employer shall sell any laundry apparatus, machinery, or appliances or parts thereof to any new laundry plant upon a deferred 

payment plan unless the initial cash payment is at least thirty-three 

and one-third (331/2) percent of the list price of the article sold, 

less the amount of any trade-in allowance. The deferred payment 

period shall not exceed thirty (30) months. A new laundry plant 

is defined as one conducted by a person not thereto£ ore operating 

a laundry plant at the same locat10n. 

No employer shall sell any dry-cleaning apparatus, machinery, or 

appliances or parts thereof to any new dry-cleaning plant upon a 

deferred payment plan unless the initial cash payment is at least 

fifteen (15) percent of the list price of the article sold, less the 

amount of any trade-in allowance. The deferred payment period 

shall not exceed thirty (30) months. A new dry-cleaning plant 

is defined as one conducted by a person not theretofore operating a 

dry-cleaning plant at the same location. 

No employer shall sell any apparatus, machinery, or appliances 

or parts thereof to any existing laundry and/or dry-cleaning plants 

upon a deferred payment plan unless the initial cash payment is at 

least ten (10) percent of the list price of the article sold, less the 
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amount o:f any trade-in allowance. The deferred payment period 

shall not exceed thirty-six (36) months. 

On all deferred payment sales to new laundry and/or dry-cleaning plants not less than twenty (20) percent of the deferred balance 

shall be paid in equal monthly payments (beginning within 1;ixty (60)' 

days of date of shipment) during a period not in excess of one third 

(1/3 ) of the deferred payment period, and the remaining eighty (80) 

percent shall be paid in equal monthly payments over the remainder 

of the deferred payment period. On all other deferred payment 

sales the deferred balance shall be paid in equal monthly payments 

beginning within sixty (60) days after date of shipment. 

Interest at the rate of not less than six ( 6) percent per annum 

shall be charged upon the deferred balance. 

Shipments may be made f.o.b. the nearest plant to the buyer o:f 

any manufacturer o.f similar apparatu,s, machinery, or appliances, 

except that f.o.b. points on the Pacific Coast shall be Los Angeles, San 

Francisco, and Seattle. The buyer shall pay freight in cash in addition to the down payment. 

The following discounts, based upon the invoice price, shall be 

applicable to deferred-payment sales on which all payments are made 

promptly upon the dates fixed, and may be deducted by the buyer 

from the amount of the last payment: 

On deferred-payment sales paid in full within twelve (12) months, 

two (2) percent. 

On deferred-payment sales paid in full within eighteen (18) 

months, one and one half (11⁄2) percent. 

On deferred-payment sales paid in full within twenty-four (2·4) 

months, one ( 1) percent. 

On deferred-payment sales paid in full within thirty (30) months, 

one half ( 1⁄2) of one ( 1) percent. 

Cartage and setting in position ready for connection shall be 

charged to the buyer and shall be paid in cash in addition to the 

down payment and freight. Supervisory service may be given without compensation. Price lists for the Pacific Coast shall include 

cartage and setting in position ready for connection at the f .o.b. 

points, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Seattle. 

ARTICLE XV-GUARANTY OF MANUFACTURER 

No employer shall make any guaranty on apparatus machinery, 

appliances, and parts thereof for a per10d in excess of six months 

from the date of installation. Every employer shall file with the 

supervisory agency ten (10) days after the effective date a copy of his 

standard form of guaranty. 

ARTICLE XVI-SERVICE PROVISIONS 

Except in the case o:f service given during the guarantee period, 

time and a half shall be charged for overtime and holidays. Overtime shall begin at 5: 00 :p.m. and end at 8: 00 a.m. on the following 

day, Monday to Friday, inclusive. It shall begin at noon on Saturday and end at 8: 00 a.m. on Monday. It shall begin at 5: 00 p.m. 

on the day preceding a holiday and end at 8: 00 a.m. on the day 

following the holiday. 
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Travel time of any service employee between 8: 00 a.m. and 5: 00 

p.m., transportation and living expenses, shall be for account of the 

customer. 

ARTICLE XVII-EXPERI:MENTAL AND TRIAL INSTALLATIONS 

A probationary period for experimenting with new types of apparatus, machinery, and appliances shall not extend for more than 

one year from the installation of the unit first installed, and such 

installations shall be limited to ten (10) different plants and in 

number to ten (10) units. 

Trial periods to prove a sales point shall not exceed sixty (60) 

days from the date of installation. The terms of sale provided in 

this Code shall be the terms of sale in the trial order and shall become effective when the apparatus, machinery or appliance on trial 

is accepted. If the apparatus, machinery or appliance on trial is 

not accepted by the end of the trial period, it shall be removed by 

the manufacturer installing it. With the exception of identification 

machinery and equipment, no employer shall have more than five 

installations of each type of apparatus, machinery, or appliance on 

a trial basis at any one time. 

Every employer making a probationary or trial installation shall 

within five days after such installation notify the supervisory agency 

of such installation and shall show in such notification the number 

and type of units installed, the date on which installed, and the name 

and address of the plant in which installed. 

ARTICLE XVIII-DISTRIBUTOR'S RESALES 

No employer will sell to or through any distributor who does not 

agree to resell the products of the Industry only in accordance with 

the provisions of this Code. 

ARTICLE XIX-EXPORT SALES 

The provisions of this Code covering sales are not to apply to 

direct export sales of any product of the Industry or to sales of any 

product destined ultimately for export or to sales of parts used in 

the manufacture of products for export. The term "export" shall 

include shipments to foreign countries and to such territories and 

P?Ssessions of the United States as may be determined by the super• 

v1sory agency. 

ARTIOLE XX-UNFAIR COMPETITIVE PRACTICES 

The :following are declared to be unfair methods of competition in 

the Laundry and Dry Cleaning Machinery Manufacturing Industry: 

1. The secret payment or allowance, in connection with any sale, o:f 

rebates, refunds, commissions, or unearned discounts, whether in the 

form of money or otherwise, or secretly extending to certain pur• 

chasers special services or privileges not extended to all purchasers 

under like terms and conditions. 
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2. Directly or indirectly to give or permit to be given, or to offer to 

give, money or anything of value to agents, employees, or representatives of customers or prospective customers, or to agents, employees, 

or representatives of competitors' customers or prospective customers, 

to influence their employers or principals to purchase or contract to 

purchase industry products from the maker of such gift or offer, or 

to influence such employers or principals to refrain from dealing or 

contracting to deal with competitors. 

3. Wilfully inducing or attempting to induce the breach of existing contracts between competitors and their customers by any false 

or deceptive means whatsoever, or interfering with or obstructing 

the performance of any such contractual duties or services by any 

such means. 

4. Wilfully enticing away the employees of competitors with the 

purpose and effect of unduly hampering, injuring, or embarrassing 

competitors in their businesses. 

5. Defamation of competitors by falsely imputing to them dishonorable conduct, inability to perform contracts, questionable credit 

standing, or by other false representations or the false disparagement 

of the grade or quality of their goods. 

6. The making, or causing, or permitting to be made or published, 

of any false, untrue, or deceptive statement by way of adYertisement 

or otherwise concerning the grade, quantity, quality, substance, 

chara~ter, nature, origin, size, or preparation of any product of the 

Industry. 

7. Withholding from or inserting in the invoice statements which 

make the invoice a false record, wholly or in part, of the transaction 

represented on the face thereof. 

8. Intimidating customers of alleged infringers by the owner of 

a patent or trade mark. 

ARTICLE XXI-RIGHTS OF PRESIDENT 

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. 

ARTICLE XXII-AMENDMENTS AND ADDITIONS 

Such of the provisions of this Code as are not required by the 

National Industrial Recovery Act to be included herein, may, with 

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

eliminated as changed circumstances or experience may indicate. 

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

practices of the Laundry and Dry Cleaning Machinery Manufacturing Industry and will be continued by the Laundry and Dry 

Cleaners Machinery Manufacturers' Association with the intention of 

submitting to the Administrator for approval, from time to time, 

additions or supplements to this Code, such additions or supplements, 

however, to conform to and be consistent with the provisions of 

this Code. 
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ARTICLE XXIII-SEGREGATION OF I~DUSTRY 

If any employer of labor in the Laundry and Dry Cleaning Machinery Manufacturing Industry is also an employer of labor in any 

other Industry, the provisions of this Code shall apJ?lY to and affect 

only that part of his business which is included 1n the Laundry 

and Dry Cleaning Machinery Manufacturing Industry. 

SEPTEMBER 25, 1933. 

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