Approved Code No. 219-Amendment No.2 Registry No. 1607-1-01 

NATIONAL RECOVERY ADMINISTRATION 

AMENDMENT TO 

CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

BEDDING MANUFACTURING 

INDUSTRY 

AS APPROVED ON JULY 10, 1934 

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Approved Code No. 219-Amendment No. 2 

AMENDMENT TO CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

BEDDING MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY 

A~ Approved on July 10, 1934 

ORDER 

APPROVING AMENDMENT TO CoDE OF FAIR CoMPETITION FOR THE 

BEDDING MANUFACTURING 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 amendments 

to a Code of Fair Competition for the Bedding Manufacturing Industry, and hearings having been duly held thereon and the annexed 

report on said amendments, 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 Execu6ve 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 amendments 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 amendments 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 amended. 

Approval recommended : 

HuGHS. JoHNsoN, 

Administrator for lndU8trial RecoverY.... 

BARTON W. MuRRAY, 

Dilvision Administrator. 

WASHINGTON, D.C., 

July 10, 1934. 

'13078°-829-38-34 (1)' 
REPORT TO THE PRESIDENT 

The PRESIDENT, 

The White House. 

SrR: This is a report on amendments of the Code of Fair Competition for the Bedding Manufacturing Industry as approved by 

me on January 23, 1934. Application was made under date of 

April 7, 1934 by the Code Authority for th~ Bedding Manufacturing Industry for amendment of certain of the provisions of Articles II and VII of the said Code. All interested parties were given 

opportunity to present their views at .a Public Hearing held on these 

proposed fourteen amendments on May 4, 1934. 

Six of these fourteen amendments have been approved by me. 

They relate to the Code's definition of " Bedding Industry ", to the 

status of certain States with respect to the North-South wage differential, to the labelling regulations of the Code, to the wording of 

commercial bribery prohibition, and to export trade. 

The principal effects of these amendments will be to place vVest 

Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia in the North rather 

than in the South, to prescribe regulations for the labelling of bedding containing bulk feathers, and down and to exempt shipments 

for export trade from the terms of sale provisions of the Code. 

Tho Assistant Deputy Administrator in his finnl report to me on 

said amendments to said Coue having found as herein set forth and 

on the basis of all the proceedings in this matter: 

I find that: 

(a) The amendments 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 comm_erce 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 elirninating unfair competitive practices, by promoting 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 provision of said Title of said Act, including without limitation sub-section (a) of Section 3, sub-section (a) of Section 7 and 

sub-section (b) of Section 10 thereof. 

(c) The Code empowers the Code Authority to present the aforesaid amendments on behalf of the industry as a whole. 

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(d) The amendments and the Code as amended are not designed 

to and will not permit monopolies or monopolistic practices. 

(e) The amendments 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 process have 

not been deprived of the right to be heard prior to approval of said 

amendment. 

I believe the amendments to be fair to labor, to the consumer and 

to the· industry, and for these reasons, therefore, I have approved 

these amendments. 

Respectfully, 

JULY 10, 1934. 

H uaH S. JoHNSON, 

Adndnistrator. 
11\.MENDMENT TO CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION FOR 

THE BEDDING MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY 

AMENDMENT N 0. 1 

Article II, Section 1, of the Bedding Code shall be and hereby is 

amended, by inserting in parentheses after the word " pillows " the 

words, "including the preparation and processing of feathers and 

down", the section to read as follows: 

·" 1. The term 'industry' as used herein, includes the manufacture, remaking, repairing, or renovating of mattresses, pillows (including the preparation and processing of feathers and down), box 

bprings, studio couches (the principal components of which are 

springs, mattresses, and pillows), metal beds, metal and wood cribs 

und cots, metal bed springs, and gliders; provided, however, that 

this definition shall not include any retail furniture or department 

store which, incidental to the operation of such business, repairs, 

remakes, or renovates for customers a bedding product previously 

sold by such store to such customer; provided, further, that organizations or groups of 1nanufacturers representing branches or subdivisions thereof may become parties to or be exempted from this 

Code on approval by the Administrator." 

AMENDMENT N 0. 2 

Article II, Section 6, of the Bedding Code shall be and hereby 1 is amended, by deleting the words, "West Virginia", "Maryland", 

and "District of Columbia", the Section to read as follows: 

" 6. The ' South' as used herein includes the following States: 

Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, 

and Oklahoma. The ' North ' includes the remaining States of the 

United States." 

AMENDMENT No. 6 

Article VII, Part I, Section 4, subsection (c), of the Bedding Code 

shall be and hereby is amended, by inserting at the beginning thereof, and again, in quotation marks just before the word "curled", 

the word" crushed", the subsection to read as follows: 

"Crushed, curled or chopped feathers shall be designated by the 

name of the fowl from which they came, preceded by the words. 

'crushed',' curled', or 'chopped'." 

AMENDMENT No. 7 

Article VII, Part I, Section 4, of the Bedding Code shall be and 

hereby is amended, by striking out the words " feathers and down " 

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at the end of the first paragraph thereof, and by inserting after 

paragraph (g) thereof a new paragraph as follows: 

"(h) Bulk Feather and Down Labelling Rules.-No commodity 

shall be sold, offered £or sale, labelled, adverti ed or described as 

down other than the under-coating o£ a water-fowl, consisting of 

the light, fluffy filaments grown from one quill point but without 

any quill shaft, except that a 10% tolerance by weight of small 

water-fowl feathers only shall be allowed. Feathers and/ or down 

shall not be labelled with percentages or propositions of ingredients 

unless such feathers and/ or down do in £act contain the percentages 

or proportions named, except that a tolerance of 10% by weight 

shall be allowed." J 

AMENDMENT N 0. 10 

Article VII, Part I, Section 15, of the Bedding Code shall be 

and hereby is amended, by deleting the word "spiffs " in the heading and removing parentheses around "commercial bribery", also 

in the heading, and by deleting the words "loan", "or loaned ", 

"directly", and "loan or" in the first sentence, the section to read 

as follows: 

"15. 001nmercial Bribe1-y.-No member of the industry shall give, 

permit to be given, or offer to give, anything of value for the purpose 

of influencing or rewarding the action of any employee, agent, or 

representative of another in relation to the business of the employer 

of such employee, the principal of such agent or the represented 

party, without the knowledge o£ such employer, principal or party. 

This provision shall not be construed to prohibit free and general 

distribution of articles commonly used for adYertising except so 

far as such articles are actually used for commercial bribery as 

hereinabove defined." 

AMENDMENT N 0. 13 

Article VII, Part I, of the Bedding Code shall be and hereby is 

amended, by adding after Section 32 a new Section numbered 33, 

as follows: 

"33. Ewport Trade.-N o provision of this Code relating to prices 

or terms of selling, shipping or marketing, shall apply to export 

trade or sales or shipments £or export trade. 'Export Trade' shal1 

be as defined in the Export Trade Act adopted April 10, 1918." 

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