Approved Code No. 236 Registry No. 1629-1-02 

NATIONAL RECOVERY ADMINISTRATION 

CODE OF FAIR COMPETITIO,N 

FOR THE 

COOKING AND HEATING 

APPLIANCE MANUFACTURING 

INDUSTRY 

AS APPROVED ON JANUARY 30, 1934 

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Approved Code No. 236 

CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

COOKING AND HEATING APPLIANCE 

MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY 

As Approved on January 30, 1934 

ORDER 

APPROVING CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

COOKING AND HEATING APPLIANCE 

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 a Code of 

Fair Competition for the Cooking and Heating Appliance Manufacturing Industry, and hearings having been duly held thereon and 

the annexed report on said Code, containing findings with respect 

thereto, having been made and directed to the President: 

NOvV, THEREFORE, on behal:f of the President of the United 

States, I, Hugh S. Johnson, Administrator for Industrial Recovery, 

pursuant to authority 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 said annexed report and do find that said Code complies in all respects 

with the pBrtinent provisions and will promote the policy and purposes of said Title of said Act; and do hereby order that said Code 

of Fair Competition be and it is hereby approved; provided, however, that the provisions of Article VIII, ( Section 2), insofar as 

they prescribe a waiting period between the filing with the Code 

Authority and the effective date of revised price lists or revised 

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terms and conditions of sale be and they are hereby stayed pending · 

my further Order either within a period of sixty days from the effective date of this Code or after the completion of a study of open 

price associations now being conducted by the National Recovery 

Administration. 

HUGH s. JOHNSON, 

Adm,ini'strcdor for Industrial Recovery. 

Approval Recommended: 

w. A. HARRIMAN' 

Division Admiriisfrator. 

WASHI -GTON, D.C., 

January 30, 1934 
The PRESIDENT, 

The White House. 

Srn: This is a report on the Code of Fair Competition for the 

Cooking and Heating Appliance Manufacturing Industry, and on 

the hearing conducted thereon in Washington, D.C., on October 

25, 1933, in accordance with the provisions of the National Industrial 

Recovery Act. 

PROYISIONS REGARDING HOURS AND WAGES 

Employees are permitted to work forty ( 40) hours per week and 

eight (8) hours per day and, during ten (10) weeks during a twelve 

(12) months' period, they are permitted to work forty-eight (48) 

hours per week. 

Exceptions are provided that permit longer hours for watchmen, 

shipping crews, foundry service men, office employees during inventory periods, executives and supervisory employees receiving more 

than $35.00 per week, and outside demonstrators, service crews, and 

salesmen and for all workers during emergencies. The wage rate 

for hours worked overtime shall be one and one half the normal rate. 

The minimum rate of pay shall be forty ( 40) cents per hour for 

male workers and thirty-five (35) cents per hour for female workers, 

excepting the States of Virginia, West Virginia, ICentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, 

Mississippi, and Louisiana, where the minimum rate shall be twentyseven and one half (271⁄2) cents per hour. Female employees doing 

substantially the same work as male employees shall receive the 

same wage. 

The minimum rate for office workers shall be $15.00 per week 

in cities of over 500,000 population with lesser rates for sma:ller 

cities with the limit of $12.00 per week in towns of less than 2,500 

population. Office bors and girls, incapacitated employees, and 

learners, shall be paid not less than eighty (80) percent of the 

minimum wage, but the number of such employees is limited. 

The wage rates of those receiving more than the minimum rates 

are to be adjusted equitably and in no case shall the rates be decreased. No employees are to be reclassified so as to defeat the 

purpose of the Act. 

Persons under sixteen ( 16) year of age shall not be employed and 

none under eighteen (18) years at hazardous occupations. 

PROYISIONS FOR UPPLEMENTAL CODES 

It is provided that subclivjsions of the industry may formulate 

supplementary codes but the employment provisions shall conform 

with this basic code. 

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ECONOMIC AND STATISTICAL :MATERIAL 

The industry is widely distributed over the country although it is 

estimated that three fourths of it is located in the J orthern wage 

district and one four th in the Southern wage district. 

The indu try has furnished statistical information showing that 

in June 1933 wage rates for common labor had been reduced twelve 

(12) cents per hour in both the Northern and Southern districts, 

from forty-six ( 46) cents and twenty-seven (27) cents per hour respectively from the wage rates of 1929. Under the code, one half 

of the reduction in the Northern wage district will be regained and 

the increase in the Southern "·age di trict will more than compensate 

the reduction. 

There are no data on the number of workers employed prior to 

,June 1933, but it is estimated that under the code employment will 

be increa ed fro1n 14,000 to 15,500, an improvement of ten percent. 

It is also estimated that the weekly pay roll of the industry will 

increa e sixteen percent under the code. 

FINDI ·as 

The Deputy Administrator in his final report to me on said Code 

having found as herein set forth and on the bu is of all the proceedings in this matter: 

I find that: 

(a) Said Code is well designed to promote the policies and purposes of Title I of the National Industrial Recovery Act, including 

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 the trade group , by 

inducing and maintaining united action of labor and management 

under adequate governmental sanctions and supervision, by eliminating unfair competitive practices, by promoting the fullest possible 

utilization of the present productive capacity of industries, by avoid- ing· undue restriction of production ( except as may be temporarily 

required), by increasing the consumption of industrial and agricultural product through increasing purcha ing power, by reducing 

and relieving unemployment, by impro,ing standards of labor, and 

by otherwise rehabilitating industry. 

(b) Said Industry normally employs not more than 50,000 em- ployees; and is not classified by me as a major industry. 

( c) The Code as approved complies in all respects with the pertinent provisions of said Title of said Act, including without limit ation Subsection (a) of Section 3, Subsection (a) of Section 7, and 

Subsection (b) of Section 10 thereof ; and that the applicant group 

i an indu trial grou:(> truly representative of the aforesaid I ndustry ; 

and that said group imposes no inequitable restrictions on admission 

to membership therein. 

( d) The Code is not designed to and will not permit monopolies or 

monopolistic practices. 
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( e) The Code is 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 Code. 

For these reasons, therefore, I have approved this Code. 

Respectfully, 

JANUARY 30, 1934. 

HUGHS. JOHNSON, 

Administrator. 
CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

COOKING AND HEATING APPLIANCE MANUFACTURING 

INDUSTRY 

ARTICLE I-PURPOSES 

To effectuate the policies of Title I of the National Industrial 

Recovery Act this Code is submitted as a Code of Fair Competition for the Cooking and H eating Appliance ::Manufacturing 

Industry, and upon apprmTal by the President, its provisions shall 

be the standards of fair competition for such industry and shall be 

binding upon eYery member thereof. 

ARTICLE II-DEFINITIONS 

1. The term Cooking and Heating Appliance Manufacturing Indu try as used herein includes the manufacture and ale of all designs 

of cooking and heating stove an--:l ranges and parts thereof, using 

coal and wood or combinations of various fuels. 

2. The term ':Member of the Industry" includes but without 

limitation, any individual, partnership, association, corporation, or 

other form of enterprise engaged in the industry, either as an employer or on his or its own behalf. 

3. The term " employee " as u ed herein include any and all 

persons engaged in the indu try, however compensated, except a 

1\'Iember of the Industry. 

4. The terms 'President", 'Act', and 'Administrator" as used 

herein re pectively mean. the Pre. iclent of the United States. the 

J ational Industrial Recovery Act and the Administrator for Industrial Recovery. 

5. ' Population ' for the purposes of this code hall be determined 

by reference to the late t Federal census. 

ARTICLE III-Ho Rs 

1. M axinium, H ours.-N o employee shall be permitted. to work in 

excess of forty ( 40) hours in any one week or eight ( 8) hours in 

any twenty-four (24) hour period except as herein otherwise provided, but with the right to work a maximum of forty-eight ( 48) 

hours per week for any ten (10) weeks during a twelve (12) months 

period. 

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2. Exceptions as to Ho1w's.-(a) Provided, hO\vever, that employees working on emergency n1aintenance or emergency repair 

work involving breakdown or protection o:f life or property may 

work ten percent (10%) additional hOltrs. 

(b) Provided further, that shipping crew and foundry service 

men whose duties are servicing the cupola an<l changing flasks and 

patterns for moulders are to have a toleranc of one hour per day, 

when necessary. 

( c) Outside demon trators and out icle sen .-ice crews ,Yhose traveling expenses are paid by the employer, and outside salesmen, are 

exempt :from the abovB hour provisions. 

( d) Office employees during the annual inventory period may 

work an additional thirty-six hours in any two weeks period at the 

discretion of the employer, provided that it shall not exceed three 

hours per day. 

(e) Watchmen may not work more than fifty-six (56) hours in 

every seven (7) days nor more than six (6) day out of eYery 

seven (7) days. 

3. All classes of workers are exempt from the foregoing hour provisions when an emergency arise such as a fire, flood, or cyclone, 

or other unpredictable emergencies, which cause operations to cease; 

such exemptjons may cover the actual number of hours lo t a. a 

result of such emergency. 

4. Any employee at the request of the employer may work additional hours beyond those specified above, provided such additional hours are paid for at the rate of tim.e and one half. 

5. Executives and their staffs, supervisors, and office employees, 

making thirty-five dollars ($35.00) per week or more, are exempt 

:from the maximum hours fixed in this code. 

6. No employer shall knowingly permit any employee to work for 

any tin1e which, when totalled with that already performed with 

another employer or employers in this industry, exceeds the maxip1um 

permitted herein. 

ARTICLE IV-,VAGES 

1. No employees shall be paid le ·s than the rate of forty cent ( 40¢) 

per hour :for male workers and thirty-five cents (35¢) per hour for 

female workers except employees employed in the States of Virginia, 

"rest Virginia, ICentucky, Tennessee, North arolina South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, l\1i ·sissippi, and Loui ·iana who 

shall be paid not less than twenty-seYen and one half cent (271/2¢) 

per hour for male and female workers. 

2. Provided that office worker. shall not be paid less than $15.00 

per w~ek in any city of over 500,000 population, or in the immediate 

trade area of such city; nor less than $14.50 in any city of between 

250,000 and 500,000 population, or in the immediate trade area of 

such city; nor les than $14.00 per week in any city o:f between 2,500, 

and 250,000 population, or in the immediate trade area of such city; 

nor less than $12.00 per week in towns of less than 2,500 population, 

except that office boys, girls, and messengers shall not be paid less 

than eighty per cent ( 80%) o:f the minin1um rate specified herein. 

The number of office boys, girls, and me. sengers shall not exceed 

one :for every ten office employees. 
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3. Provided, further, that learners and superannuated or phy ically incapacitated employees shall not exceed in any calendar month 

frve percent ( 5%) of the t-Otal number of employee and shall be 

paid at least eighty percent ( 0%) of the minimum wage. A 

learner shall be defined as one who has had no previous experience 

in the cla s of work for which he is employed and may be so classed 

for one period of ninety (90) days. 

4. Thi article establi hes a mini1num rate of pay, regardless of 

whether an employee is compen atBd on a time-rate piecework, or 

other basi . 

5. The hourly wage rates, ba e piecework rates, or salaries of employees receiving more than the minimum rates herein prescribed 

shall be equitably adjusted, if this has not already been done, and in 

no case shall the rates be decreased. Action taken shall be reported 

to the Code Authority not later than fifteen ( 15) days after the 

effective date of this Code and to the Administrator at his request. 

ARTICLE V-STA.TE LA w REQUIREl\IE:NTS 

Within each State this Code shall not supersede any laws of 

such State imposing more stringent requirements than those under 

this Code with reference to regulating the age of employees, wages, 

hour of work, fire, or general working conditions. 

ARTICLE \ I-GENERAL LABOR PROVISIONS 

1. Employers shall not employ or permit to be employed any 

person under the age of sixteen (16) years, provided that no person 

under the age of eighteen (18) years shall be employed in a hazardous 

occupation. The Code uthority hall report within ninety (90) 

days such hazardous occupations to the Administrator. 

2. Employees shall have the riaht to organize and bargain collectively through repre entatfres of their own choosing, and shall be 

free from interference re traint or coercion of employers of labor, 

or their agents, in the designation of such repre entatives or in 

self-organization or in other concerted activities for the pu1·pose 

of collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection. 

3. No employee and no one eeking employment hall be required 

as a condition of employment to join any company union or to refrain from joining organizing, or a sisting a labor organization 

of his own choosing. 

4. Employers hall c mply with the maximum hours of labor, 

minimum rates of pay and other conditions of employment approved 

or prescribed by the Pre ident for thi · indu try in it appro-ved code. 

5. The Code Authority ... hall require that the pay rolls· of all 

employer of the indu try contain the name of all employees, showing the number of hour and compen. ation paid therefor, regardless 

of whether the wag · of an~ employee be paid by the employer or 

by another emplo ee for ervice rendered in connection with the 

task or production of another employee or employee . 

6. o employer hall reclas ify employee or duties or occupations 

of employee for the purpose of defeating the purposes or provisions 

of the Act. 
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7. Female employees perform.ing substantially the same work as 

male employees shall receive the same rate of pay as male employees. 

8. All employers shall post copies of the labor provisions of this 

code in a conspicuous place accessible to employees. 

ARTICLE VII-ORGANIZATION' POWERS, AND DUTIES OF THE CODE 

AUTHORITY 

l. Organization and Oonstitution.-There shall forthwith be constituted a Code Authority consisting of three (3) members of the 

Board of Trustees of the Institute of Cooking and Heating Appliance Manufacturers, Inc., who shall be elected by said Board. 

2. In addition to membership as above provided, there may be from 

one to three members without vote, to be appointed by the Administrator, to serve for a term of from six months to one year from 

the date of appointment. 

3. The Institute of Cooking and Heating Appliance :Manufacturers, Inc., shall (1) impose no inequitable restrictions on membership, and (2) submit to the Ad1ninistrator true copies of its articles 

of incorporation, bylaws, regulations, and any amendments when 

made thereto, together with such other information as to membership, organization, and activities as the Administrator may deem 

necessary to effectuate the purposes of the Act. 

4. In order that the Code Authority shall at all tin1es be truly 

representative of the industry and in other respects with the provisions of the Act, the Administrator may prescribe such hearings as 

he may deem proper; and thereafter, if he shall find that the Code 

Authority is not truly representative or does not in other respects 

comply with the provisions of the Act, may require an appropriate 

modification in the method of selection of the Code Authority. 

5. Members of the industry shall b~ entitled to participate in 

and share the benefits of the activities of the Code Authority and to 

participate in the selection of the members thereof by assenting to 

and complying with the requirements of this code and sustaining 

their reasonable share of the expenses of formulating, putting into 

effect, and administering this code. Such reasonable share of the 

expenses of formulating, putting into effect, and admini tering this 

code shall be determined by the Code Authority subject to disap- proval by the Administrator, on the basis of volume of business 

and/or such other facts as may be deemed equitable. Failure of 

any employer to pay his proportionate share fixed by the Code Authority will deprive him of his participation in the benefits of the 

code but ·will not remoYe his obligation to pay his due and unpaid 

assessments. 

6. Nothing in this code shall constitute the members of the Code 

Authority partners for any purpose. 

7. Powen and Duties.-The Code Authority shall have the following further powers and duties, the exercise of which shall be 

reported to the Administrator and shall be subject to his right, on 

review, to disapprove any action taken by the Code Authority: 

(a) To insure the execution of the provisions of this Code and 

provide for the compliance of the industry with the provisions of the 

Act. 
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(b) To adopt bylaws and rules and regulations for its procedure 

and for the administration and enforcement of the code subject to 

the approval of the Board of Trustees. 

( c) To obtain from members of the industry such information and 

reports as are required for the administration of the code and to 

provide for submission by members of such information and reports 

as the Administrator may deem necessary for the purposes recited 

in Section 3 (a) of the Act, which information and reports shall be 

submitted by members to such administrative and/ or government 

agencies as the Administrator may designate; provided that nothing 

in this code shall relieve any member of the industry of any existing obligations to furnish reports to any government agency. No 

individual reports shall be disclosed to any other member of the 

industry or any other party exce_pt to such governmental agencies 

as may be directed by the Administrator. 

( d) To use the Institute of Cooking and Heating Appliance l\1anufacturers, Inc., and other agencies as it deems proper for the carrying out of any of its activities provided for herein; provided that 

nothing herein shall relieve the Code Authority of its duties or responsibilities under this code and that the Institute of Cooking and 

Heating Appliance l\1anufacturers, Inc., and other agencies shall at 

all times be subject to and comply with the provisions hereof. 

( e) To make recommendations to the Adrn.inistrator for the coordination of the administration of this Code with such other codes, 

if any, as may be related to the industry. 

(f) To secure from members of the industry an equitable and 

proportionate payment of the reasonable expenses of maintaining 

the Code Authority and its activities. 

(g) To cooperate with the Administrator in regulating the use 

of any N.R.A. insignia solely by those members of the industry 

who have assented to, and are complying with, this code. 

(h) To recomn1end to the Administrator further fair trade practice provisions to govern members of the industry in their relations 

with each other or with other industries and to recommend to the 

Administrator measures for industrial planning, including stabilization of employment. 

ARTICLE VIII-CosTs AND PRICES 

1. No member of the industry shall sell any commodity at a price 

below his own allowable cost except that any member of the industry may meet the price competition of any one whose allowable costs 

under this provision are lower. Permission to exercise this option 

of selling below allowable cost shall be presumed to be granted when 

a manufacturer has reported to the Code Authority the fact that 

he must sell below cost and shall cite the specific competition. Allowable cost shall be determined in accordance with the standard 

cost principles formulated by the Code Authority with the approval 

of the Administrator. 

2. Within ten days after the effective date of this code, every member of the industry shall file with the confidential agent designated 

by the Code Authority his sales prices, discounts, and terms then 

in effect; such sales prices, discounts, and terms n1ust provide rea-
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sonable differences for each class of buyer. Every member of the 

industry must file with the confidential agent any reductions made 

such sales prices, and any changes in discounts, terms, or classifications ten days prior to the date on which they become effective.1 

ARTICLE IX-TRADE PRACTICES 

The practices and methods set forth in the following paragraphs 

in this Article IX are hereby designated as unfair methods of competition and the indulgence by any member of the industry in any of 

the ame shall be a violation of this code: 

1. Oonsignment.-Making any agreement or contract after the effective date of this code, the effect of which will amount to the sale 

and/ or delivery of cooking and heating appliances on consignment 

and to discontinue forthwith any consignment arrangements now in 

effect. 

2. False Billing.-No me1nber of the industry shall knowingly 

withhold fron1 or insert in any quotation or invoice any statement 

that makes it inaccurate in any material particular. 

3. Underselling reported prices discounts, and terms.-Offering 

any product of the industry for safe at less than his sales prices, discounts, and terms, as filed with the confidential agent designated by 

the Code Authority. 

4. Redating.-Allowing terms of payment more liberal than those 

stated in the original sales terms of each member of the industry as 

filed with the confidential agent designated by the Code Authority. 

This applies to deliberate action on the part of a member of the 

industry who allows a purchaser to keep goods to be paid for when 

sold, and does not apply to a manufacturer who makes an actual 

effort to collect on same. 

5. R epurchase Agreenients.-Selling or offering to sell any merchandise with a repurchase agreement. 

6. Allowance for R eturned Goods.-Acceptance of returns of obsolete goods or overstock from a customer in exchange for new stocks 

or other values. 

7. Excessive .Allowance for Second-hand Goods.-Purchasing or 

allowing credit for second-hand merchandise at an amount greater 

than its fair whole ale market value, except when merchandise of his 

own manufacture is returned because of defect in design or operation. 

8. Rebates.-The extension to certain purchasers of advertising 

allowances, special services, privileges, or discounts or the payment 

or allowance of rebates, refunds, comn1issions, credits, or unearned 

discounts whether in the form of money or otherwise, not extended 

to all purcha ers on like terms and conditions. 

9. P1·e1niunis.-Giving premiums in the sale of merchandise. 

10. False Description.-The false description of any product of the 

industry which has the tendency to mi lead or deceive customers or 

prospective customers, whether as to grade, quality, type, origin, size, 

capacity, finish, or preparation of any product of the industry, or 

otherwi e. · 

11. Oomml'rcirtl Bribery.-No member of the industry shall give, 

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

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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 of such employer, principal, or 

party. Commercial bribery provisions shall not be construed to prohibit free and general distribution of articles commonly used for advertising except so far as such articles are actually used for corrunercial bribery as hereinabove defined. 

12. Excessive I nduce1nents.-To extend excessive inducements or 

entertainment to customer , or prospective customers, which tend to 

add undulv to sales costs. 

13. Defcnnation.-The defamation of competitors by falsely imputing to them inability to perform contracts, questionable credit 

standing, or by other false representation or by the fal e disparagement of the grade or quality of their goods. 

14. Threat of Litigation.-The publishing or circularizing of unfounded threats of suits for infringement of patents or trade marks 

or of any legal proceedings without cause which tend to have the 

effect of harassing competitors or intimidating their customers. 

15. Misrepresentation 01· False or 111 isleadin g Advertising.-The 

making or causing or pennitting to be made or published any false, 

materially inaccurate or deceptive statement by way of advertising 

or otherwise, whether concerning the grade, quality, type, origin, 

size, capacity, finish, or preparation of any products of the industry, 

or the credit term , values, policies, or services of any member of 

the industry, or otherwise, having the tendency and capacity to 

mislead or deceive cu tomer or pro pecti ve customers. 

16. Piracy of T1·ade Marks (JJnd Trade N a1nes.-The imitation of 

a trade mark, trade name, slogan, or the other marks of identification of competitors having the tendency to mislead or deceive. 

17. b nitation of Stoves or Parts.-So long as the maker of any 

trade-marked cooking and heating stoves or ranges ( or his successor 

in business) continues to make and supply repair parts therefor, it 

shall be an unfair method of competition for any other person to 

make and supply stoves or ranges or parts therefor unless (a) the 

name of the maker of such stoves or ranges or repair parts therefor 

is plainly marked on each part ( or if this is impracticable, on the 

package or tag) and unless (b) said stoves or ranges or parts are 

otherwise marked, packaged, and sold without imitative labels, and 

in such manner as to clearly indicate to the ultimate user that they 

are not made by the maker of the original cooking and heating stove 

or range. 

18. Disposal of Distress M erchandise.-There shall be no disposal 

of dropped lines, seconds, excess inventories, or distress merchandise 

except in accordance with the procedure to be outlined by the Code 

Aut!'10rity subject to disapproval by the Administrator for the protect10n of the O"TT"ners and to promote sound and stable business conditions. 

19. Interf erence with Oont1·actual R.elations.-:Maliciously inducing or attempting to induce the breach of an existing oral or written 

contract between a competitor and his customer or source of supply, 

or interfering with or obstructing the perforn1ance of any such contractual duties or services. 
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20. Splitting Conunissions.-EYery em.ployer using salesmen who 

are compensated wholly or partially on a commission basis shall by 

contract require each such salesman to agree that no part o:£ the 

commission earned by him in connection with the sale o:£ any 

product o:£ the cooking and heating appliance manu:facturing industry shall be paid or allowed to any purchaser. 

21. Excessive Allowance of Literature.-To furnish literature to 

customers without charge, except in modest quantities :for distribution. 

AnTI LEX- ' urPLEME -TAL CooE OPTION 

It is understood that trade groups or groups o:£ manufacturers 

representing a substantial part of any specific subdivision of this 

industry, may formulate supplementary codes of fair competition 

defining specjfically the subdivision and co ·ering such regulations as 

are considered advisable by them. However, all employment provisions of such supplementary codes shall conform with this basic 

code. Such codes when approved by the President shall have the 

same force and effect as this basic code. 

ARTICLE XI-110DIFICATION 

1. This code and all the provisions thereof are expressly made 

subject to the right of the President, in accordance with the provisions of subsection (b) of Section 10 o:£ the Act from time to 

time to cancel or modify any order, approval, license, rule or 

regulation issued under said Act. 

2. This Code, except as to provisions required by the Act, m.ay be 

modified on the basis of experience or changes in circumstances, such 

modifications to be based upon application to the Administrator and 

such notice and hearing as he shall specify, and to become effective 

on approval by the President. 

ARTICLE XII-1'1oNOPOLIEs, ETc. 

No provision o:£ this code shall be so applied as to permit monopolies or monopolistic practices, or to eliminate, oppress, or discriminate against mall enterpri es. 

ARTICLE XIII-EFFECTIYE DATE 

This code hall become effective on the ·econd Monday aft~r its! 

approval by the President. ' 

ARTICLE XIV-EXPIRATION DATE 

The expiration date of this code shall be June 16, 1935, or the' 

earlie t date prior thereto on which the President or the Congress/ 

shall by joint resolution declare that the emergency recognized by:1 

Title I of the Act has ended. 

Approved Code No. 236. 

Regirstry :ro. 1629-1-02. 

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