Approved Code No. 39-Amendment No.2 Registry No. 1303-1-04 

NATIONAL RECOVERY ADMINISTRATION 

AMENDMENT TO 

CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

FARM EQUIPMENT 

INDUSTRY 

AS APPROVED ON MAY 7, 1934 

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Approved Code No. 39-Arnendment No. 2 

AMENDMENT TO CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

FARM EQllPMENT INDUSTRY 

As Approved on May 7, 1934 

ORDER 

APPROVING MonrFICA TION OF ConE OF FAIR CoMPETITION FOR THE 

FARM EQUIPMENT 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 Modifications 

of a Code of Fair Competition for the Farm Equipment Industry, 

and hearings having been duly held thereon and the annexed report 

on said Modifications, containing findings with 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 Executive Order 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 Modifications 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 Modifications 

be and they are 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, and that such Modifications shall become 

effective as part of the Code, at the expiration of fifteen (15) days 

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

me before that time and I issue a subsequent order to that effect. 

Further, the provisions of Amendment No.5 relating to heat firemen 

are hereby stayed for a period of sixty (60) days subject to my 

further orders. 

HuGH S. JoHNsoN, 

Administrator for Industrial Recovery. 

Approval recommended: · 

A. R. GLANCY, 

Division Administrator. 

"\V ASHINGTON, D.C., 

May 7, 1934. 

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REPORT TO THE PRESIDENT 

The PRESIDENT, 

The lVhite House. 

Srn: This is a report of the ~1odifications of the Code of Fair 

Comr etition for the Farm Equipment Industry as revised after a 

Public Hearing oncluctcd in "' ashington on February 23, 1934, in 

accordance _with Article XI of aiel Code as approved on October 

3, 1D33. 

The definition of the products of the Inclu try has been amended 

to include poultry, barn and barnyard equipment, and in accordance 

with the modified definition the following groups are brought within 

the provisions of the ori ~inal Code : 

Barn Equipment 1\.. ociation 

Poultry Equipment A ·sociation 

Bee Equipment Manufacturers' A sociation 

National A sociation of Silo Manufacturers 

Incubator Manufacturers' Association 

Sheet Steel Farm Equipment A sociation 

The term" a sociation" i now defined to mean the" Farm Equipment Institute", instead of "National A sociation of Farm Equipment :Manufacturers". 

Watchmen and heat firemen (as distinguished from power or 

pre ure firemen) are exempted from those provisions of the Code 

which limit hour of labor to forty-eight ( 48) per week or not to 

exceed an average of forty ( 40) per week over a six-months period, 

but their hour may not exceed fifty-six (56) per week. 

Sales by members of the Indu try to governmental agencies are 

not governed by the provision in the Code which limits the period 

of credit to two (2) years. 

FINDINGS 

The Deputy Administrator in his final report to me on said Modifications of said Code having found as herein set forth and on the 

basis of all the proceedings in this matter: 

I find that: 

(a) The Modifications of said Code and the Code as modified 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 purposes 

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

practices, by promoting the fullest pos ible utilization of the present 

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produDtive 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 modified 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 Farm Equipment Institute was and is an industrial association truly representative of the aforesaid Industry and that said 

association imposed and imposes no inequitable restrictions on admission to membership therein and has applied for or consents to these 

Modifications. 

(d) The Modifications and the Code as modified are not designed 

to and will not permit monopolies or monopolistic practices. 

(e) The Modifications and the Code as modified 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 

Modifications. 

For these reasons, these Modifications have been approved by me, 

but, on the condition that the provisions of Amendment No. 5 relating to heat firemen are hereby stayed for a period of sixty (60) 

days subject to my further orders. 

Respectfully, 

MAY 7, 1934. 

HuGHS. JoHNsoN, 

Administrator. 
AMENDMENT TO CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION FOR 

THE FARM EQUIPMENT INDUSTRY 

PURPOSE 

Pursuant to Article XI of the Code of Fair Competition for the 

Farm Equipment Industry, duly approved by the President on October 3: 1933, and further to effectuate the policies of Title I of the 

N utional Industrial Recovery Act, the following modifications are 

established as a part of said Code of Fair Competition and shall be 

binding upon every member of the Farm Equipment Industry: 

Al\[ENDMENT NO. 2 

ARTICLE II-DEFINITIONS 

A1·ticle II, Sect'ion 1, Paragraph 1-amended to read as follows: 

"As used in the Code the term 'farm equipment' includes all 

equipment used in farm operations except automobiles, motor trucks, 

household utilities, and farm hard ware such as hand rakes, shovels, 

spades, and hoes. Poultry, barn and barnyard equipment are 

included." 

AMENDMENT NO. 3 

ARTICLE II-DEFINITIONS 

Article II, S ection 1, Paragraph 4-amended to read as follows: 

"The term 'association' means Farm Equipment Institute, an 

Illinois corporation." 

AMENDMENT NO. 5 

ARTICLE V-HOURS OF LABOR AND RATES OF PAY 

Ar·ticle V, Section 3, Subsection (a), Paragraph 3-amended to 

read as follows : 

" The limitations as to hours of labor shall not apply to employees 

in a supervisory capacity receiving more than $35.00 a week or to 

field service men; or to watchmen and heat firemen who shall not be 

employed in excess of 56 hours per week, but shall apply to pressure 

or power firemen." 1 

AMENDMENT NO. 6 

ARTICLE VII-TRADE PRACTICES 

Article VI I, Section 8-added to read as follows: 

" The provisions of Section 1 of this Article limiting the period of 

credit to two years shall not apply to sales to governmental agencies." 

Approved Code No. 39. Amendment No. 2. 

Registry No. 1303-1-0-!. 

1 See paragraph 2 of order approving this Amendment. 

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