Approved Code No. 88-Amendment No. 1 Registry No. 1137-1-01 

NATIONAL RECOVERY ADMINISTRATION 

AMENDMENT. TO 

C·ODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

BUSINESS FURNITURE 

STORAGE EQUIPMENT AND 

FILING SUPPLY INDUSTRY 

AS APPROVED ON JUNE 15. 1934 

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Approved Code No. 88-Amendment No. 1 

AMENDMENT TO CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

POR THE 

BUSINESS FURNITURE., STORAGE EQUIPMENT 

AND FILING SUPPLY INDUSTRY 

As Approved on June 15, 1934 

ORDER 

APPROVING AMENDMENT OF CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION FOR THE 

BusINESS FuRNI'I'URE, STORAGE EQUIPMENT AND FrLING SuPPLY 

INDUSTRY 

An application having been dnly 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 Business Furniture, 

Storage Equipment and Filing Supply Industry, and hearings 

having been duly held thereon 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, I, Hugh S. Johnson, AJministrator for Industrial Recovery, pursu_ant to authorjty vested in me by Executive Orders of the 

President, including Executive Order No. 6543-A, dated December 

30, 1933, and otherwise; do hereby incorporate, by reference, aid 

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 js 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. 

I-IuGH S. JoHNSON, 

Administrator f 01· I ndustrial Recove1y. 

Approval recommended: 

C. E. ADAMS, 

Division Administrator. 

w .ASHINGTON, D.C. 

June 15, 1934. 

67817°--G57- 114-84 (1) 
REPORT TO THE PRE !DENT 

The PRE IDE T, 

Th H ldte Hous . 

XI and XII of th od f Fair Comtiti n for th Bu ·in Furnitur , toracr Equipment an l Filing 

upply Indu try a1 Ir ved on rov mber 4 19 th ational Emermmitt e h l uthority for th abov In lu. try ha 

ubmitt a r qu t f r the amendment of rti 1 II of th Ba. ic 

de f r th purpo of li 'lino- th Indu. try Pr tlu t. f th Fir 

Re i tive af and th Filing upply Indu ·tri '~. Thi · m ndm nt 

will upon the separate approval of the two pr Io.el 'nppl mental 

ode , mak p ibl the pe ifi application of the provi:ion of 

aid Ba i ode to each of the new divisions. · A hearing on thi Amendment wa on luctetl in '\ a.-hinoton on 

Decernb r 20, 1933 and every per on who reque t l an appearance 

wa pr ~dy hear 1 in a corclance with statutory an l r gulatory 

requirements. 

The Deputy Admini trator in his final report to m~ on said 

~ mendment t said Code having f und a herein et forth and on 

the ba i of all the proceedings in thi matt r : 

I find that: 

(a) The Amendment to aid Code and the C de a amend d are 

well designed to promote the policies and purpo e of Title I of 

the National Indu trial Recovery Act in ·lu lin; the removal of 

ob tructions to the free flow of inters,.ate and foreign commerce 

which tend to di mini h the am unt thereof, and wHl provide for the 

general welfare by promoting the organization of indu try for th 

purpose of cooperatiYe action among trade o-roup by indu ing and 

maintaining united action of labor and managem nt und r ad quate 

governmental sanction and supervi ion, by eliminating unfair conipetitfre practices, by promoting the fulle -t pos ible utilization of the 

present producti1.-e capacity of industries, by avoiding nnclue re triction of produ tion ( except as may be temporarily requir d) by increasino- the consumption of indu trial and agri nltural produ t 

through increasing purchasing power by reducino· an l r li 0 vin()' unmployment by unprovina standard. of labor an l by , therwi 

rehabilitatinO' jndu try. 

(b) The Code a· am ncled compli s in all r pect. · with th 

pertinent ~ro,1i ·ion of aid Title of said Act inclu ling without 

limitation ub ection (a) of Se tion Sub::;e ·tion (a) of tion 7 

and ub ection (b) of ec ion 10 thereof. ( ) Th ocl empow r · the ~od \.uthority to pre · nt tl e afor -

saitl Am nclm nt n l half of th Indu try :1 a whol . 

( d) Th ~\.n en elm nt an 1 the o l ns urn ncled ar n t le icrnc 

to and will no,. permit mono1 oli r monopoli tic practi ::;. 

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( e) The Amendment and the Code as amended are not designed to 

and will not eliminate or oppress small enterprises and will not 

operate to discri1ninate 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, therefore, this Amendment has been approved. 

Respectfully, 

JUNE 15, 1934. 

HUGH S. JOHNSON' 

Adniinwtrator. 
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In ~ulated tra and containers. 

Burglary n.ncl robbery re i tive chests and lock r . 

Filing uppl Divi ion: 

Index Cards and Record Card forms. 

V erti al and card index guides and indexes. 

Filino· folder , not handfolded and expanding, and with open 

end. 

Celluloid index tab trips. 

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