Approved Code No. 148-Amendment No. 1 Registry No. 611-02 

NATIONAL RECOVERY ADMINISTRATION 

AMENDMENT TO 

CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

PYROTECHNIC 

MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY 

AS APPROVED ON OCTOBER 29, 1934 

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Approved Code No. 148-Amendment No. 1 

AMEND1\1ENT TO CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION' 

- FOR THE 

PYROTECHNIC 1'1ANUF ACTUR!NG INDUSTRY 

As Approved on October 29, 1934 

ORDER 

APPROVING AMENDMENT OF CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION FCR THE 

PYROTECHNIC IVfANUFACTIIBING 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 an amendment to a Code of Fair Competition for the P yrotechnic Manufacturing Industry, and an opportunity to be heard having been afforded 

nll interested parties 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, the National Industrial Recovery Board, pursuant to authority vested in it by Executive Orders of the President, including 

Executive Order No. 6859, dated September 27, 1934, and otherwise; 

does hereby incorporate, by reference, said annexed report and does 

find that said amendment and the Code as constituted after being 

amended comply in all respects with the pertinent provisions and 

will promote the policy and purposes of said Title of said Act, and 

does hereby order that said amendment be and it is hereby approved, 

and that the previo11s approval of said Code is hereby amended to 

include an approval of said Code in its entirety as amended. 

NATIONAL INDUSTRIAL RECOVERY BOARD, 

By G. A. LYNCH, Administrative Officer. 

Approval recommended : 

JosEPH F. BATTLEY, 

Actin_q Division Ad1ninistrator. 

WASHINGTON, D. C., 

October 29, 1934. 

94043°-1244-108-34 (1) 
REPORT TO THE PRESIDENT 

The PRESIDENT, 

The TV hite House. 

Srn: This is a report on an amendment to the Code of Fair Competition for the Pyrotechnic Manufacturing Industry. An opportunity to be heard has been duly afforded all interested parties. 

This amendment enables the Code Authority to incur such reasonable obligations as are necessary for the administration of the Code. 

It requires that the Code Authority submit for the approval of the 

Administration an itemized budget and equitable ba::,is of pro rating 

the assessments to be collected from the members of the industry. 

Payment of an equitable contribution to the expenses of the Code 

Authority by members of the industry is made mandatory by this 

amendment. 

FINDINGS 

The Acting Deputy Administrator in his final report to the National Industrial Recovery Board on said amendment to said Code 

having found as herein ::,et forth and on the basis of the proceedings 

in this matter the National Industrial Recovery Board finds that: 

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

well 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 tend 

to diminish the amount thereof, and will provide for the general welfare by promoting the organization of industry for the purpose of 

cooperative action of labor and management under adequate governmental sanction and supervision, by eliminating unfair competitive 

practice,s, by promoting the .fullest possible utilization of the present 

productive capacity o.f industries, by avoiding undue 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 relieving unemployment, 

by improving ::,tandards of labor, and by otherwise rehabilitating 

industry. 

(b) The Code as amended complies in all respects with the pertinent provision 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 Pyrotechnic Manufacturing Industry 

Code Authority Board 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. 

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( e) The amendment and the Code a amended are not designed 

to and will not eliminate or oppres · mall 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 these reasons this amendment has been approved. 

For the National Industrial Recovery Board: 

OCTOBER 29, 1934. 

G. A. LYNCH, 

Administrative Officer. 
AMENDi1ENT TO CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION FOR 

THE PYROTECHNIC MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY 

Delete Section 4 (b) of Article VI, Administration and substitute 

there£ or the following: 

(b) It being necessary to support the Administration of this Code, 

in order to effectuate the policy of the Act and to maintain the standards of fair competition established hereunder, the Code Authority 

Board is authorized: 

(1) To incur such reasonable obligations as are necessary and 

proper for the foregoing purposes, and to meet uch obligations 

out of funds which may be raised as hereinafter provided and 

which shall be held in trust for the purposes of the Code; 

(2) To submit to the National Industrial Recovery Board for 

its approval, subject to such notice and opportunity to be heard 

as it may deem necessary ( 1) an itemized budget of its estimated expenses for the foregoing purposes, and (2) an equitable basis upon which the funds necessary to support such budget shall be contributed by members of the Industry; 

(3) After such budget and basis of contribution have been 

approved by the National Industrial Recovery Board, to determine and obtain equitable contribution as above set forth by all 

members of the Industry, and to that end, if necessary, to institute legal proceedings therefor in its own name. 

Each member of the Industry shall pay his or its equitable contribution to the expenses of the maintenance of the Code Authority 

Board, determined as hereinabove provided, and subject to rules 

and regulations pertaining thereto issued by the National Industrial 

Recovery Board. Only members of the Industry complying with the 

Code and contributing to the expenses of its administration as hereinabove provided (unless duly exempted from making such contribution), shall be entitled to participate in the selection of members 

of the Code Authority Board or to receive the benefits of any of 

its voluntary activities or to make use of any emblem or insignia of 

the National Recovery Administration. 

The Code Authority Board shall neither incur nor pay any obligation substantially in excess of the amount thereof as estimated in 

its approved budget, and shall in no event exceed the total amount 

contained in the approved budget, except upon approval of the 

National Industrial Recovery Board; and no subsequent budget shall 

contain any deficiency item. for expenditures in excess of prior budget 

estimates except those which the said Board shall have so approved. 

Al)l11'ovecl Code No. 148-Amendment No. 1. 

Registry No. 611-02. 

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