1484-E Registry No. 1399-30 

NATIONAL RECOVERY ADMINISTRATION 

CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

PACKAGING MACHINERY 

INDUSTRY AND TRADE 

AS APPROVED ON OCTOBER 31, 1933 

BY 

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT 

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1. Executive Order 

2. Letter of Transmittal 

3. Code 

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EXECUTIVE ORDER 

CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION FOR THE p ACKAGING MACHINERY INDUSTRY' 

AND TR.ADE 

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 my approval of a Code of 

Fair Competition for the Packaging Machinery Industry and Trade, 

and hearings having been held thereon and the Administrator having 

rendered his report containing an analysis of the said Code of Fair 

Competition together with his recommendations and findings with 

respect thereto and the Administrator having found that the said 

Code of Fair Competition complies in all respects with the pertinent 

provisions of Title I of said Act and that the requirements of Clauses 

(1) and (2) of subsection (a) of Section 3 of the said Act have been 

met: 

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of th~ 

United States, pursuant to the authority vested in me by Title I of 

the National Industrial Recovery Act, approved June 16, 1933, and 

otherwise, do adopt and a pp rove the report and recommendations 

and findings of the Administrator and do order that the said Code 

of Fair Competition be and is hereby approved. 

THE WHITE HousE, 

October 31, 1933. 

Approval recommended : 

HUGH s. JOHNSON' -

Administrator. 

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT. 

(Ill) 

18572°-188-106-33 
OCTOBER 23, 1933. 

The PRESIDENT, 

The White House. 

Sm: This is a report of the hearing on the Code of Fair Competition for the Packaging Machinery Industry and Trade of the United 

States, conducted in Washington on October 11.i....1933, in accordance 

with the provisions of the National Industrial .«iecovery Act. 

PROVISIONS AS TO WAGES AND HOURS 

No person under 16 years of age shall be employed nor any person 

under 18 years of age at hazardous occupations or those detrimental 

to health. 

A minimum rate of 40 cents per hour shall be paid to any employee 

engaged in the making of the products of the Industry, and in labor 

operations directly incident thereto. 

The minimum rate applying to any other employees shall be $15.00 

per week in any city or immediate trade area of such city of over 

500,000 population; a minimum of $14.50 in any city or trade area of 

such city, of between 250,000 to 500,000 population; or, $14.00 in 

any city or town o':£ less than 250,000 population or within the immediate trade area of such city or town. 

Except that office boys and girls and learners may be paid not less 

that 80 percent of such minimum wage, the number of whom shall 

not be more than 5 percent of the total number of employees covered 

by weekly salaries. . 

Apprentices may be retained under contract at . predetermined 

wages during the period of apprenticeship in order to learn the 

trade, but such existing and future contracts shall be filed with the 

Code Authority. 

Employees who, by reason of physical disability or infirmity, are 

competent for light work only may be paid not less than 80 percent 

of the minimum wage and a record of each case shall be filed with 

the Code Authority. 

Wage rates for those employees :receiving more than the minimum 

wage shall be equitably adjusted as far as practicable, but in no 

case shall they be decreased. 

A maximum day of 8 hours and a maximum week of 40 hours is 

adopted. On account of the intricate construction of the special 

machinery built by this Industry, the maximum hours adopted are 

felt to be necessary for the reason that it is impossible to change 

crews and a one-shift basis is the only logical mode of operation, 

and a shorter work week would result in no additional reemployment. 

During a temporary peak demand the Industry may operate on 

a schedule not to exceed 48 hours in any one week or not to exceed 

8 weeks in any 6 months' period, provided that time and one half 

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is paid for all time worked in excess of 8 hours in any one day or in 

excess of 40 hours in any one week. 

Further exemption is made £or employees engaged in emergency 

repair work involving breakdowns or £or protection of life and 

property. In such cases time and one half must be paid £or all time 

over the maximum hours herein provided. 

Exceptions are also made £or executives, professional persons, 

heads of administrative departments, factory and office supervisory 

staffs (not including foremen primarily engaged in productive work) 

and technical engineers (provided that none of the foregoing receive less than $35.00 per week) outside service men and field salesmen, and watchmen provided that watchmen shall not work more 

than 56 hours in any one week. 

Accounting, clerical, office service, office sales, express, delivery, 

stock keeping, or shipping employees shall not work more than 40 

hours a week monthly average nor more than 48 hours in any one 

week except during the month of the annual audit. 

ECONOMIC EFFECT OF THE CODE 

The estimated total sales of this Industry in 1932 were 57.6 percent of sales in 1929 and represented only 29 percent of plant capac-

!ty. The lowest level of employment within recent years occurred 

1n March 1933, and on June 15, 1933, only 1,584 were employed. 

Since June 15th, however, 536 employees have been added. 

Increased pay rolls from reemployment and adjusted differentials 

in wages furnish evidence of the fullest cooperation with the spirit 

of the Act. 

FINDINGS 

(a) The Code as recommended complies in all respects with the 

pertinent provisions of Title I of the Act, including, without limitation, subsection (a) of Section 7 and subsection (b) of Section 

10 thereof; and that 

(b) The applicant group imposes no inequitable restrictions on 

admission to membership therein and is truly representative of the 

Packaging Machinery Ir1dustry and Trade. 

( c) . The Code _as. recommended is not designated to promote monopolies or to eliminate or oppress small enterprises and will not 

operate to discriminate against them, and will tend to effectuate the 

policy of Title I of the National Industrial Recovery Act. 

It is recommended, therefore, that this Code be approved. 

Respectfully, 

HUGH s. JOHNSON, 

Administrator. 

CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION FOR THE PACKAGING 

MACHINERY INDUSTRY AND TRADE 

ARTICLE I-PURPOSES 

To effectuate the policy of Title I of the National Industrial 

Recovery Act, the following provisions are established as a " Code 

of Fair Competition" for the Packaging Machinery Industry and 

Trade. 

ARTICLE II-THE INDUSTRY AND TRADE 

SECTION 1. The term "packaging machinery industry", as used 

herein, is defined to mean the manufacturing and/ or importing 

and/ or marketing of power-driven automatic and semiautomatic or 

hand- or foot-operated machinery and/ or equipment and parts thereof used in the manufacture of packages ( except machinery for the 

manufacture of glass, wood, and metal packages) and in packaging 

processes and/ or in the preparation of products for shipment. 

SEc. 2. The term " packaging machinery trade ", as used herein, 

is defined to mean and includes the business of importing and/ or 

marketing of packaging machinery and/or equipment and parts 

thereof. 

ARTICLE III-APPLICANT 

SECTION 1. ( a.) The applicant for this Code is Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute, Incorporated, a trade organization 

all members of which are engaged in such manufacturing and/or importing and/ or marketing, and which organization is truly representative of the industry. 

(b) Applicant organization imposes and shall hereafter impose 

no inequitable restrictions on membership therein. The Code presented by it shall not be applied to permit or promote monopoly, to 

oppress or eliminate small enterprises, or to discriminate against 

them but to effectuate the policy of said Title I of the National 

Industrial Recovery Act. 

ARTICLE IV-DEFINITIONS 

The following terms, as used herein, unless otherwise clearly 

indicated by the context, are defined to have meanings respectively 

as follows : · 

The term "Employer" means any person actively engaged in 

manufacturing and/or importing and/or marketing any of the 

products of the industry and trade either as employer or on his own 

behalf. 

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The term "Employee" means any one who is employed by any 

such employer in any phase of the industry or trade as above defined irrespective of the nature or method of payment of his 

compensation. 

The term "President", "Act", and "Administrator" mean, respectively, the President of the United States of America, the 

National Industrial Recovery Act, and the Administrator of said 

Act. 

The term "Learner" means a youth having no previous experience in the manufacture of packaging machinery and parts thereof, 

and whose employment as such shall not exceed four months of 

working time in the industry. The intent of the industry and trade 

under this definition is to cooperate with trade schools. 

The term "Apprentice" means a person, usually a minor, who 

agrees to serve an employer for a certain stated period of time at 

predetermined wages for the period in order to learn the trade. 

The term " Population ", for the purposes of this Code, shall be 

determined by reference to the 1930 Federal Census. 

The term "Executive" shall mean any employee responsible for 

the management of a business, a department, or a recognized subdivision thereof. 

The term " Professional person " shall mean lawyers, doctors, 

nurses, research technicians, advertising speciali.sts. 

The term " Outside Salesman " shall mean a salesman who is engaged not less than sixty (60) percent of his working hours outside 

the factory or office or any branch thereof by which he is employed. 

The term" Maintenance employee" shall mean any employee who, 

through special training or mechanical ability, is essential to the upkeep and/ or preservation of the premises and property of the 

establishment, and shall not include such workers as porters, elevator 

operators, janitors, and cleaners. 

The term " Outside Service Employee " shall mean any employee 

when actually engaged in installing or servicing machinery and/or 

equipment and parts thereof outside the establishment. 

The term " Watchman " shall mean an employee engaged in safeguarding the premises and property of the establishment. 

The term "Establishment" shall mean any factory, office, or department wherein the manufacture, importing, and/or marketing of packaging machinery and/or equipment and parts thereof is conducted. 

ARTICLE V-EMPLOYl\f ENT 

(1) Employees shall have the right to organize and bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing, and shall be 

free from the interference, restraint, or coercion of employers of 

labor, or their agents, in the designation of such representatives or in 

self-organization or in other concerted activities for the Eurpose of 

collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection; (2) No employee and no one seeking employment shall be required as a condition of employment to join any company union or to refrain from 

joining, organizing, or assisting a labor organization of his own 

choosing; and (3) Employers shall comply with the maximum hours 

of labor, minimum rates of pay, and other conditions of employment 

approved or prescribed by the President. 
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ARTICLE VI-MINORS 

No employer shall employ any person under the age o:£ sixteen 

(16) years, nor anyone under eighteen (18) years of age at operations or occupations hazardous or detrimental to health. The Code 

Authority shall submit to the Administrator before January 1, 1934, 

a list of such occupations. In any state an employer shall be deemed 

to have complied with this provision if he shall have on file a certificate or permit duly issued by the authority in such state empowered to issue employment or age certificates, showing that the employee is of the required age. 

ARTICLE VII-WAGES 

SECTION 1. (a) On and after the effective date the minimum wage 

that shall be paid by any employer to any employee engaged in the 

making of the products of the industry, and in labor operations 

directly incident thereto, shall be forty ( 40) cents per hour. It is 

agreed that this paragraph establishes a guaranteed minimum rate 

of pay regardless of whether the employee is compensated on the 

basis of a time rate or on a piecework performance. 

(b) On and after the effective date, the minimum wage that 

shall be paid by any employer, to all other employees shall be not 

less than fifteen dollars ($15) per week in any city of over 500,000 

population or in the immediate trade area of such city, nor less than 

fourteen and a half dollars ($14.50) per week in any city of between 

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

such city, nor less than fourteen dollars ($14) per week in any city 

or town of less than 250,000 population or in the immediate trade 

area of such city or town. 

Provided, however, that office boys or girls and learners ( other 

than apprentices) may be paid not less than eighty (80) percent 

of such minimum wage, but the total number of such office boys or 

girls, and learners at such reduced rate shall not exceed in any 

calendar month five (5) percent of the total number of all employees 

covered by the provisions of this paragraph (b), provided that each 

employer may employ a minimum of one office boy or girl and a 

minimum of one learner. 

( c) Nothing in this Article VII shall apply to, or affect, any 

employee apprenticed to any employer by an indenture made in pursuance of the laws of any state of the United States, or by a written contract under any apprentice system established and maintained 

by an employer, provided such agreements are, and each additional 

agreement as made is, filed with the Code Authority, and provided 

that this exception shall apply to such employees only during the 

period that they are receiving less than the minimum rate. 

(d) Any employee who, by reason of physical disability or infirmity is competent only for light employment shall be paid not 

less than eighty (80) percent of the minimum wage referred to in 

paragraph (a) of this Article VII, provided that a record of each 

case shall be filed with the Code Authority. 

( e) To the extent practicable, the wage rates of employees receiving more than the minimum wage rate shall be equitably ad-
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justed, and in no case shall they be decreased as a result of this 

adjustment of hours, so that existing differentials shall be maintained and, to the extent practicable, recognition shall be given to 

the desirability of maintaining earnings, provided such adjustment 

has not already been made since June 16, 1933. 

ARTICLE VIII-HoURs 

SECTION 1. (a) On and after the effective date, no employer shall 

employ any employee engaged in the making of the products of the 

industry, and/or in labor operations directly incident thereto, in 

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

twenty-four (24) hour period. 

(b) Provided further that these limitations of hours shall not 

apply to conditions of peak demand, for any department or departments which create an unusual and temporary burden for production or installation; in such cases such number of hours may be 

worked as are required by the necessities of the situation; but not 

to exceed forty-eight ( 48) hours per week for eight (8) weeks in any 

calendar six ( 6) months' periodl beginning October 1, 1933, and each 

April 1 and October 1 thereatter; provided further that in such 

special cases time and one half shall be paid for hours worked in 

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

one week. 

( c) Provided further that the maximum hours fixed in Section 

1 (a) of this Article shall not apply to any employee on emergency 

maintenance or emergency repair work involving breakdowns or 

protection of life and property, but, in any such special case, time 

and one half his normal rate shall be paid for hours worked in excess 

of the maximum hours therein provided. 

( d) Provided :further that these limitations of hours shall not 

apply to executives, professional persons, heads of administrative 

departments, factory and office supervisory staffs ( not including 

foremen primarily engaged in productive work), and. technical engineers (provided that no person receiving less than thirty-five 

($35.00) dollars per week shall be considered to come under any of 

the foregoing exempted classifications of this paragraph), outside 

service men and field salesmen, and watchmen1 provided, however, 

that watchmen shall not work more than fifty-six ( 56) hours in any 

one week. 

SEc. 2. On and after the effective date of this Code, no employer 

shall work any accounting, clerical, office service, office sales, express, 

delivery, stockkeeping, or shipping employee in the industry more 

than forty ( 40) hours a week on a monthly average, nor more than 

forty-eight ( 48) hours in any one week, except during the month of 

the annual audit. 

SEc. 3. No employee shall work or be permitted to work for a 

total number of hours in excess of the number of hours prescribed 

for each week and day whether employed by one or more employers. 

SEc. 4. In determining his classification under this Code, each 

employee shall be entitled to claim the benefit of the classification of 

occupations existing on June 16, 1933. 

SEc. 5. Each employer shall post this Code in a conspicuous place 

in his establishment. 
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ARTICE IX-STATE REGULATIONS 

Within each state, this code shall not supersede the laws 0£ such 

state imposing more stringent requirements, regulating the age of 

employees, wages, hours of work, or health, fire, or general working 

conditions, than under this Code. 

ARTICLE X-CODE AUTHORITY 

SECTION 1. To further effectuate the policies of the Act, a Code 

Authority is hereby set up to cooperate with the Administr ator in 

the Administration of this Code. 

SEc. 2. The Code Authority shall consist of the Code Committee 

of not more than five members (no two of whom shall be representatives of the same member) appointed by the Board of Directors of 

the Packaging Machinery l\1anufacturers Institute, Incorporated, together with, if nonmembers so desire, two member,s of the industry 

and trade not members of the Institute; and one or more nonvoting 

appointees of the National Recovery Administration, if deemed 

necessary by the Administrator. 

Each trade or industrial association directly or indirectly participating in the selection or activities of the Code Authority shall, 

(1) Impose no inequitable restriction,s on membership, and (2) submit to the Administrator true copies of its articles of association, 

bylaws, regulations, and any amendments when made thereto, together with such other information as to membership, organization, 

and activities as the Administrator may deem neces,sary to effectuate 

the purposes of the Act. . •-

I n order that the Code Authority shall at all times be truly representative of the industry and trade, and in othBr respects comply 

with the provisions of the Act, the Administrator may provide 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, he may require 

an appropriate modification in the method of selection of the Code 

Authority. 

SEc. 3. Any member of the industry and trade is eligible for membership in the Code and/ or Institute and there shall be no inequitable 

restriction on such membership, and aU members of the industry and 

trade subscribing to the Code or partitcipating in, or sharing in any 

way in the benefits of the activity of the Code Authority or participating in the selection thereof, shall bear a proportionate amount of 

the expenses of administering and enforcing the Code and of ·making any amendments thereto, which proportion shall be based on the 

gross-sales volume ( for the previous calendar year) of the packaging 

machinery as defined in Section I or Article II, and such funds shall 

be collected and adminstered by and through the machinery of the 

Institute. 

SEc. 4. With a view to keeping the President informed as to the 

observance or nonobservance of this Code, and as to whether the industry and trade is taking appropriate steps to effectuate the 

declared policy of the Act, each member of the industry and trade, 

if and when required by the Administrator, shall prepare and file 
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w~th such person or organization as the Code Authority may designate, and at such times and in such manner as the Code Authority 

may prescribe ( to be held and used subject to the limitations of 

Article XI hereof), statistics of plant capacity, volume of sales in 

units and dollars, orders received, unfilled orders, stocks on hand, 

inventory, both raw and finished, number of employees, wage rates, 

employee earnings, and hours of work pertinent to the administration of this Code. 

ARTICLE XI-DATA CONFIDENTIAL 

SECTION 1. Except as otherwise provided in the Act, all statistics, 

data, and information filed in accordance with the provisions of the 

Code shall be confidential. 

SEc. 2. The statistics, data, and information of one member of the 

industry and trade shall not be revealed to any other member of the 

industry and trade, except, that, for the purpose of administering 

or enforcing the provisions of this Code, the Code Authority, by 

its duly authorized representatives ( who shall not be in the employ 

of any member of the industry and trade affected by this Code), 

shall have access to any and all statistics, data, and information, that 

may be furnished in accordance with the provisions of this Code. 

However, such data shall be available to the Administrator on 

request. 

SEc. 3. In addition to the information required to be submitted 

to the Code Authority, there shall be furnished to government 

agencies such statistical information as the Administrator may deem 

necessary for the purposes recited in Section 3 (a) of the Act. 

ARTICLE XII-INVESTIGATIONS 

SECTION. 1. Aggregation of members of the industry and trade 

having a common interest and common problems will be grouped 

by the Code Authority for administrative purposes into various 

product subdivisions. 

SEc. 2. In each product subdivision there may be a Sub-Code 

Authority approved, or appointed, by the Code Authority. If formal 

complaint is made to the Code Authority that provisions of this 

Code have been violated by any member of the industry and trade, 

the Code Authority or the proper Sub-Code Authority shall investigate the facts, and to that end may cause such investigation to be 

made as may be deemed necessary, and shall report the results of 

such investigation to the Code Authority. Any action taken by 

the Code Authority under this Article of this Code shall be subject 

to review, disapproval, or modification by the Administrator. 

ARTICLE XIII-UNFAIR TRADE PRACTICES 

SECTION 1. It shall be an unfair trade practice for a manufacturer, 

importer, agent, or dealer to allege that a competing machine and/or 

equipment and parts thereof violates any patent unless he shall ha.ve 

previously notified the alleged infringer in writing, setting forth ~ 
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the grounds on which such alleged infringement is based and naming 

the patents alleged to be infringed. 

SEc. 2. It shall be an unfair trade practice to the full extent permitted by any existing patent laws for any manufacturer or importer or agent or dealer of packaging machinery and/ or equipment 

or parts thereof to assume in any contract any obligation or liability 

in connection with patent infringement suits brought against the 

purchaser or user of the machinery and/ or equipment or parts thereof, 

other than to assure the legal expense of suits charging that such 

machinery and/or equipment or parts thereof infringes, plus damages or profits not to exceed the cost price of the machinery, and/or 

equipment or parts thereof directly involved in such suit. 

SE0. 3. S_ecret R ebates.-It shall be an unfair trade practice to 

make secret payment or allowance of rebates, refunds, commissions, 

credits or unearned discounts, whether in the :form of money or 

otherwise, or the secret extension to certain purchasers of special 

services or privileges not extended to all purchasers on like terms and 

conditions. 

SEc. 4. Oommercial Bribery.-It shall be an unfair trade practice 

directly or indirectly to give or permit to be given, or offer to give, 

money or anything of value to agents, employees, or representatives 

of competitors or prospective customers, without the knowledge of 

their employers or principals, as an inducement to influence their 

employers or principals to purchase or contract to purchase from 

the makers of such gift or offer, or to influence such employers or 

principals to refrain from dealing or · contracting to deal with 

competitors. 

SEc. 5. lnte1·f erence with Oontractual R elations.-It shall be an 

unfair trade practice maliciously to induce or attempt to induce the 

breach of any existing oral or written contract between a competitor 

and his customer or source of supply, or interfere with or obstruct 

the performance of any such contractual duties or services. 

SEc. 6. Jl!lisrepresentation or Fals e- or Misleading Ad1Jertising.-It 

shall be an unfair trade practice to make or cause or knowingly 

permit to be made or published any false, materially inaccurate, or 

deceptive statement by way of advertisement or otherwise, whether 

concerning the grade, quality, quantity, substance, character, nature, 

origin, size, finish, or preparation of any product of the industry 

and trade, or the credit terms, values, policies, or services of any 

member of the industry and trade, or otherwise, having the tendency 

or capacity to mislead or deceive customers or prospective customers. 

SEc. 7. Particular product groups of competitors within the Packaging Machinery Industry and Trade may, with the approval of the 

Code Authority and the Administrator and the President, establish 

supplementary codes of fair trade practices applying to their particular products, covering such problems as costs, trade-in allowances, 

selling on trial basis, charges for installation, demonstration and 

service, and other problems. Such a supplementary code shall apply 

to all members of the particular product group within the industry 

and trade, on tha_t part of their business covered by the product 

definition. 

SEc. 8. Where before June 16, 1933, the members of the industry 

and trade have contracted to purchase goods at a fixed price for 
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delivery during the period of this agreement, the members of the 

industry and trade will make an appropriate adjustment of said 

fixed price to meet any increase in cost caused by the seller having 

signed the President's Reemployment Agreement or having become 

bound by any Code of Fair Competition approved by the President. 

SEc. 9. No section of this Article XIII of this Code shall apply to 

sales outside of the United States of America. 

SEC. 10. Nothing in this Code shall limit the effect o:f any adjudication by the courts or holding by the Federal Trade Commission on 

compla}nt, finding, and. or~er,_that any P:act~ce or 1?etho4 is unf3:ir, 

providing that such adJud1cat10n or holding is not inconsistent with 

any provision of the Act or this Code. 

SEO. 11. If any member of the industry and trade is also a member of any other industry and trade, the provisions of this article 

of this Code shall apply to, and affect, only that part of his business 

and product which is included in this industry and 'trade. 

ARTICLE XIV-MODIFICATION 

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 of the National Industrial Recovery 

Act, from time to tirμe, to cancel or modify any order, approval, 

license, rule, or regulation issued under Title I of said Act and 

specifically, but without limitation, to the right of the President to 

cancel and modify his approval o:f this Code or any conditions imposed by him upon his approval thereof. 

ARTICLE XV-AMENDMENTS CONTEMPLATED 

SECTION 1. (a) Such of the provisions of this Code as are not required by the Act to be included herein, may, with the approval of 

the President, be modified or eliminated as changed circumstances or 

experience may indicate. 

(b) This Code is intended to be a basic Code. Study of the trade 

practices of the industry and trade will be continued by the Code 

Authority with the intention of submitting from time to time additions to, or revisions of, or supplements to, this Code. 

( c) Any such amendments, additions, revisions, or supplements 

proposed by the Code Authority and approved by the President shall 

be in full force and effect after such approval. 

ARTICLE XVI-PRICE I NCREASES 

Whereas the policy of the Act to increase real purchasing power 

will be made impossible of consummation if prices of goods and services increase as rapidly as wages, it is recognized that price increases 

should be delayed and that when made, the same should so far as 

reasonably possible, be limited to actual increases in the seher's costs. 

ARTICLE XVII-EFFECTIVE DATE 

This Code shall become effective and binding on all persons engaged in the industry and trade on the eleventh day after its approval 

by the President and shall not be otherwise effective. 

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