Approved Code No. 2-Arnendrnent No. 2 Registry No. 1408-1-01 

NATIONAL RECOVERY ADMINISTRATION 

AMENDMENT TO 

CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

SHIPBUILDING AND 

SHIPREP AIRING INDUSTRY 

AS APPROVED ON MARCH 29, 1934 

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Approved Code No. 2--Amendment No. 2 

Al\'1ENDMENT TO CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

SHIPBUILDING AND SHIPREP AIRING INDUSTRY 

As Approved on March 29, 1934 

ORDER 

AMENDl\IENT To CooE OF FAIR CoMPETITIO:N" FOR THE SHIPBUILDINO 

AND SHIPREPAIRING INDUSTRY 

An application having been duly made pur uant to and in full 

compliance with the provisions of Title I of the rational Industrial 

Recovery Act, approved June 16, 1933, for approYal of an amendment to a Code of Fair Competition for the Shipbuilding and Shiprepairing Industry, and hearings having been duly held thereon and 

the annexed report on said amendment, containing findings witb 

respect thereto, having been made and directed to the President: 

NOW, 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 Exe cu ti Ye Orders of the President, including Executive Order No. 6543-A, dated December 30, 

1933, and otherwise; do hereby incorporate, by reference, said annexed report and do 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 do hereby order that said amendment be and 

it is hereby approved, and that the previous approYal of said Code 

is hereby modified to include an approval of said Code in its entirety 

as amended, such approval and such amendment to take effect five 

clays from the date hereof, unless good cause to the contrary is shown 

to the Administrator before that time and the Administrator issues a 

subsequent order to that effect. 

HUGH s. JOHNSON, 

Aclni.inistrator /01· I ndustrial R ecovery. 

Approval recommended: 

K. M. SIMPSON' 

Division Aclniinisfrator. 

WASHINGTON, D.C., 

March 29, 1934. 

50008°-425-183-34 (1) 
REPORT TO THE PRESIDENT 

The PRESIDENT, 

The lV hite House. 

Sm: This is a report on the amendment to the Code of Fair 

Com.petition for the Shipbuilding and Shiprepairing Industry and 

on the Public H earing conducted thereon in Washington, D. C., on 

March 20, 1934, in accordance with the provisions of Title I of the 

National Indu trial Recovery Act. 

The amendment as originally pre ented ,Yas proposed by the 

National Council of American Shipbuilders who submitted, through 

their President, an affidavit in which the A~sociation claims to represent 90% of the Industry. The amendment concerns the revision of the definition now obtaining in the Code of Fair Competition for the Shipbuilding and 

Shiprepairing Industry, which reads as follows: 

" 1. DEFINITION OF TERMS 

"The terms 'shipbuilder' and 'shiprepairer ', when used in this 

Code, include a person, partnership, or corporation engaged in the 

business of building, fabricating, repairing, reconstructing, remodeling, and assembling oceangoing, harbor and inland water-way 

vessels, and floating marine equipment of every type above ten 

tons, including the building within their plants of machinery, equipment, and other ship' parts." 

Since the effective date of the Shipbuilding and Shiprepairing 

Code, August 5, 1933, it has developed that the definition was too 

inclusive and covered too wide a scope of operations inasmuch as it 

brought within the cope of the Snipbuilding and Shiprepairing 

Code practically the entire operations of the smaller Boatbuilding 

and Boatrepairing Industry, whose activities and conditions are of 

sufficiently different character to warrant a separate code. The 

specific amendment proposed by the Shipbuildin~ and Shiprepairing 

Industry and as amended at the hearing is as follows: 

"The terms 'shipbuilder' and 'shiprepairer ', when used in this 

Code, include a person, partnership, or corporation engaged in the 

business of building, fabricating, repairing, reconstructing, remodeling, and assembling oceangoing, harbor and inland water-way vessels, and floating marine equipment of every type, except 

"A. Steel pleasure craft and steel yachts of 125' or under in length 

overall. 

" B. "\V ooden fishing schooners 50' or under in length overall, 

wooden trawlers 50' or under in length overall, and wooden harbor 

tugs 50' or under in length overall. 

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" C. All other wooden commercial vessels 75' or under in length. 

"The terms 'shipbuilder' and 'shiprepairer' also inclucfe the 

building within their plants of machinery, equipment and other 

ship's parts." 

The facts brought to light in this hearing revealed that a further 

modification of the amendment was necessary. The following definition for the Shipbuilding and Shiprepairing Industry has resulted 

from the reconvening of the hearing in the Deputy's office on March 

21, 1934: 

"A. The term' Shipbuilding and Shiprepairing Industry' means: 

"1. The building, fabricating, r epairing, reconstructing, remodeling and assembling of all vessels and floating marine equipment 

except: 

" (a) ,v ooden boats and ves ·els and wooden floating marine equipment. 

"(b) Pleasure boats and yachts, both wooden and/or metal up to 

and including one hundred and fifty (150) feet in length overall. 

"2. The building within shipbuilding and shiprepairing plants of 

machinery, equipment and other ship's parts. 

" B. The term ' ~rfernber of the Industry ' means any person, partner hip corporation, association, trust, trustee or receiver engaged 

in the Shipbuilding and Shiprepairing Industry, either as an employer or on his or its own behalf." 

It was developed that the definition as finally amended would 

best divide the activities of the two industries and cause the least 

amount of overlapping between the two codes. 

The Deputy Administrator in his final report to me on said 

amenclment 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 

well designed to prom.ote the policies and purposes of Title I of the 

N.ational 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 among trade groups, by inducing the maintaining united action of labor and management under adequate governmental sanction and supervision, by eliminating unfair competitive 

practices, by prcn10ting the fullest possible utilization of the present 

productive capacity of 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 standards of labor, and by otherwise rehabilitating industry. 

(b) The Code as amended complies in all respects with the pertinent provisions of said Titl~ 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 amendment and the Code as amended are not designed to 

and will not permit monopolies or monopolistic practices. 
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( <l) The amendment and the Code as amended are not designed to 

and will not eliminate or oppress sm.all enterprises and "ill not 

operate to discriminate against them. 

(e) Those engaged in other steps of the economic process haYe not 

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

amendment. 

For these reasons, this amendment has been approved. 

Respectfully, 

HUGH s. J OHXSON, 

Ad 1ninisfrator. 

. MARCH 29, 1934. 
AMENDMENT TO CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION FOR THE 

SHIPBUILDING AND SHIPREP AIRING INDUSTRY 

1. DEFINITION OF TERMS 

A. The term "Shipbuilding and Shiprepairing Industry" means: 

1. The building, fabricating, repairing, recon tructing, remodeling 

and assembling 0£ all vessels and floating marine equipment except : 

(a) Wooden boats and vessels and wooden floating marine equipment. 

(b) Pleasure boat and yachts, both wooden and/ or metal up to 

and including one hundred and fifty (150) feet in length over all. 

2. The building within shipbuilding and shiprepairing plants of 

machinery, equipment and other ship's parts. 

B. The term " Member of the Industry " means any person, partnership, corporation , association, trust, tru tee, or receiver engaged 

in the Shipbuilding and Shiprepairing Industry, either as an employer or on his or its own behalf. 

Approved Code No. 2. Amendment No. 2. 

Registry No. 1408-1-01. 

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