Approved Code No. 201-Arnendrnent No. 1 Registry No. 1625-59 

NATIONAL RECOVERY ADMINISTRATION 

AMENDMENT TO 

CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

WHOLESALING 

OR DISTRIBUTING TRADE 

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AS APPROVED ON OCTOBER 26, 1934 

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Approved Code No. 201-Amendment No.1 

AMENDMENT TO CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

WH·OLESALING OR DISTRIBUTING TRADE 

As Approved on October 26, 1934 

ORDER 

APPROVING AMENDMENT oF CoDE oF FAIR CoMPETITION FOR THE 

WHOLESALING OR DISTRIBUTING TRADE 

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 an amendment to a Code of Fair Competition for the Wholesaling or Distributing Trade, and notice of opportunity to be heard having been 

duly given 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, the National Industrial Recovery Board, pursuant to authority vested in it by Executive Orders of the President, including ExecutivB Order 6859, dated September 27, 1934, and otherwise, does 

hereby incorporate by reference said annexed report, and does find 

that said amendment and the Code as constituted after bein(J' 

amended comply in all respects with the pertinent provisions and 

will promote the policy and purposes of said Title of said Act, and 

does hereby order that said amendment be and it is hereby approved, 

and that the previous approval of said Code is hereby amended to 

include an approval of said Code in its entirety as amended, such 

approval and such amendment to take effect fifteen (15) days from 

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

National Industrial Recovery Board before that time and the N ationa! Industrial Recovery Board issues a subsequent order to that 

effect. 

NATIONAL INDUSTRIAL RECOVERY BoARD, 

By G. A. LYNCH, Administrative Officer. 

Approval recommended: 

RoBERT L. HousToN, 

Division .Ad'lTIIinistrator. 

WASHINGTON, D. c., 

Ootober 136, 1934. 

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REPORT TO THE PRESIDENT 

The PREsiDENT, 

The White House. 

SrR: This is a report on an amendment to the Code o£ Fair Competition !or the Wholesali~g or Distributing Trade, said Code being 

Approved Code No. 201, approved by you on January 12, 1934. 

This Code has been amended by striking out Section 4 o£ Article 

VI and inserting a new section which will empower the General 

Code Authority !or the above Trade to submit a budget and basis o£ 

contribution for each member o£ the Trade and to obtain equitable 

contributions from all members of the Trade. 

The Deputy Administrator in his final report to the National 

Industrial Recovery Board on said amendment to said Code having 

!ound as herein set forth and on the basis o£ all the proceedings in 

this matter; 

It finds that: 

(a) The amendment to said Code and the Code as amended are 

well designed to promote the policies and purposes of Title I o£ 

the National Industrial Recovery Act including the removal of 

obstructions to the !ree flow of interstate and !oreign 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 of labor and management under adequate governmental sanction and supervision, by eliminating 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 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 am_endment and the Code as amended are not designed to 

and will not permit monopolies or monopolistic practices. 

(d) The amendment 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. 

(e) Those engaged in other steps of the economic process have 

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

this amendn1ent to the Code. 

For these reasons the amendment to the above-named Code has 

been approved. 

For the National Industrial Recovery Board: 

OcTOBER 26, 1934. 

(2) 

G. A. LYNCH, 

Administrative Officer. 
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AMENDMENT TO CODE OF FAIR CO~IPETITION FOR 

THE WHOLESALING OR DISTRIBUTING TRADE 

The ode of Fair Competition for the Whole aling or Distributing 

Trade i hereby amended by triking ont Section 4 of Article VI and 

inserting a new Section 4 reading as follows : 

Section 4. Payment of Cost of Code Ad1ninistration.-(a) It 

being found necessary in or ler to upport the admini tration of this 

Code and to maintain the tandards of fair competition established 

under thi Code and to effectuate the policy of the Act the General 

Code Authority is authorized 

(1) To incur uch rea onable obligation as are nece sary and 

proper for the foregoing purpo A , and to meet such obligations out 

of fund which may be raised a hereinafter provided and which 

. hall be held in tru t for the purpo e of the Code; 

(2) To submit to the National Indu trial Recovery Board for its 

approval, subject to such notice and opportunity to be heard a it 

may deem nece sary. (i) an itemized budget of it estimated expenses 

for the foregoing purpo e and (ii) an equitable ba is upon 11hich 

the funds necessary to support uch budget shall be contributed by 

member of the Trade; 

(3) After uch budget and ba is of contribution haYe been approved by the National Industrial Recovery Board, to determine 

and obtain equitable contribution · as above t forth by all members 

of the Trade, and to that end, if nece sary, to in tit:nte legal proceeding. therefor in its own name. 

(b) Each member of the Trade not governed by a pecific Supplementary Code for the parti,..ular commodity clivi ·ion in which he 

or it operate hall pay his or it equitable contribution to the expen es of the maintenance of the General Code .A .. uthority direct to 

the General Code Authority and each member of the Trade operating 11ithin a specific commodit. clivi ion for which ha been a ppro\ed a Supplementar- Code ·hall pay his or its equitable contribution to the expen e of the maintenance of the General Code 

Authority through the Divi ional Code ~' nthority admini tering the 

Supplementary Code governing the commodity division within which 

uch member of the Trade operates, and each Divisional Code Authority as uch ha.ll pay its equitable contribution to the expen es 

of the maintenance of the General Code Authority determined as 

hereinabove provided. and subject to rules and regulation pertaining thereto is ued by the National Industrial Recovery Board. Only 

membars of the Trade complying with the General Code and contributing to the expense of the administration of the aid Code as 

hereinabove provided, unle duly exempted from making such contribution , hall be entitled through such Divisional Code Authoritie or as otherwi e provided to participate in the selection of 

members of the General Code Authority or to receive the benefits 

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of any of the voluntary activities of aid Code Authority or to 

make u e of an emblem or insignia of the X ational Recovery 

Admini tra tion. 

(c) The General ode Authority shall neither incur nor pay any 

obligation ub tan ially in exce of the amount thereof a estimated 

in it approved budget and hall in no even exceed he total amount 

contained in he approved budget except upon approval of the 

National Indu trial Recovery Board· and no ub equent budget hall 

contain any deficiency item for e:spendi ure in excess of prior budget 

el timate except tho e which the X ational I ndu trial Reco\ery Board 

shall ha\e o appro\ed. -

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