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Approved Code No. 324- Amendment No. 2 Registry No. 504- 9- 01 

NATIONAL RECOVERY ADMINISTRATION 

AMENDl\'lENT TO 

CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

TEXTILE PRINT ROLLER 

ENGRAVING INDUSTRY 

AS APPROVED ON NOVEMBER 16, 1934 

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UNITE D STATES 

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 

WASHINGTON : 1934 

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Approved Code No. 324-Amendment No. 2 

AMENDMENT TO CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

TEXTILE PRINT ROLLER ENGRAVING INDUSTRY 

As Approved on November 16, 1934 

ORDER 

APPROVING AMENDMENT OF CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION FOR THE 

TEXTILE PRINT ROLLER EN"GRAVING 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 an amendment to a Code of Fair Competition for the Textile Print Roller 

Engraving 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, the National Industrial Recovery Board, pursuant to authority vested in it by Executive Orders of the President, including 

Executive Order No. 6859, and otherwise; does hereby incorporate 

by reference said annexed report and does 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 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 

E3aid Code in its entirety as amended; provided, however, that the 

provisions of the amendment numbered Article X relating to limitation and restriction of plant equipment be and they are hereby 

stayed pending its further order. 

NATION AL INDUSTRIAL RECOVERY BOARD, 

By ,V. A. HARRIMAN, Admini,strative Officer. 

Approval recommended: 

BARTON w. MURRAY, 

Division Ad11iinistrator. 

w ASHINGTON, D. c., 

November 16, 1934. 

97732°-1325-58-34 (1) 
REPORT TO THE PRESIDENT 

The PRESIDENT, 

The l V hite H ouse. 

Sm: Under the Code of Fair Competition for the Textile Print 

Roller Engraving Industry as approved on 1\1arch 8, 1934, the Code 

Authority for aid Industry has submitted the Amendments which 

are included and attached. Hearing on the Amendments wus held June 14, 1934 at the Ambas- sador I-Iotel in '\Vashington, D. C., and opportunity to be heard was 

duly noticed to all interested parties. No objections were received. The ·e Amendments are considered of Yital importance to thi 

Industry, "hirh is making an earnest effort to curtail and prevent 

certain industrial practices and abuses that have become apparent 

during the pa t few years and ,Yhich if allowed to continue will 

tend to prevent a rapid return of indu trial recoYery in this Inclu try. 

FIND! TGS 

The Deputy Administrator in his fina l report on said Amendments to said Code having found a herein set forth and on the basis 

of all proceedings in this matter, 

It i · found that: 

(a) The Amendments to said Code al)d the Code as amended 

are well de igned to promote the polici and purposes of Title I 

of the ational Indu. trial Recovery Act, including the removal of 

ob truction to the free flow of inter tate and foreign commer e 

which tend to dirnini h the amount thereof. and will provide for 

the general welfare by promoting the organization of industry for 

the purpo e of cooperatiYe action of labor and management under 

adequate goYie rnmental sanction and uperYision, by eliminating unfair comp.o titive practices, by promoting the fullest possible utilization of the present productive capacity of indu tries, by avoiding 

undue restriction of production ( except a may be temporarily re- quired), by increa ing the consumption of indu trial and agricultural product through increasing I urchasina power, by reducing 

and relie, ina unemployment, by improving standards of Labor, and 

by otherwi e rehabilitating indu try. 

(b) The Code aN amended complies in all re pects with the perti- nent provisions of aid Title of aid _ ct, including without limitation Sub ·ection (a) of Section 3, Sub.__ ection (a) of Section 7, and 

Sub ·ection (b) of Section 10 thereof. 

The Code empower the Code \._uthority to present the afore aid 

amendment on behalf of the indu try as a whole. 

(d) The aforesaid amendments have been presented in accordance 

with the requirements of the National Industrial Recovery Adminis-

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tration by the Code Authority which was officially recognized on 

J un·e 22 1934. ( e) The amendments and the. Code as amended are not designed to 

and will not permit monopolies or monopolistic practices. 

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

to and will not eliminate or oppress small enterprises and will not 

operate to discriminate against them. 

(g) Those engaged in other steps of the economic process have not 

been deprived of the right to be heard prior to approval of said 

amendments. For the e reasons, therefore, the e amendnients have been approYed; provided, however, that the provisions of the amendment 

numbered Article X relating to limitation and restriction of plant 

equipment be and they are hereby tayed pending its further order. 

For the National I ndu trial Recovery Board: 

N OVEMBER 16, 1934. 

V{. A. HARRIMAN, 

Adm,inisfrative Officer. 
A~1ENDMENT TO CODE OF F AIR COMPETITION FOR 

THE TEXTILE P RI NT ROLLER E NGRAVING INDUSTRY 

PURPOSE 

Pursuant to Article VII, Section 2 ( d) of the Code of Fair Competition for the Textile Print Roller Engraving Industry duly 

approved by the President on March 8, 1934, and further to effectuate 

the policies of Title I of the National Industrial Recovery Act, the 

following Amendments are established as a part of said Code of 

Fair Competition and shall be binding upon every member of the 

Textile Print Roller EngraYing Industry . 

.AJ\IE~D:MENT 

Amend Article III, S0 ction 1, by deleting the present Section 1 

and inserting a new Section 1. 

Amended Article III, Section 1, will then read as follows: 

ARTICLE III-Houns 

SECTION 1. No employee, except as hereinafter provided, shall be 

permitted to work in exce s o:f forty ( ':1:0) hours in any one ( 1) week, 

nor in excess of eight ( 8) hours in any one ( 1) day, nor in excess 

of five ( 5) clays in any one ( 1) week, and only between 7 A. M., 

and 7: 30 P. M. Monday to Friday, inclusive; provided, however, 

that upon specific approval of the Joint Industrial Relations Board, 

e tablishecl and functioning pursuant to Article VI hereof, employees within any defined area of the Industry may be permitted 

to work not in excess of forty-eight ( 48) hours per week in any 

twelve (12) weeks in any calendar year; provided, further, that time 

and a half shall be paid :for all hours worked in excess of eight (8) 

hours in any one ( 1) day or forty ( 40) hours in any one ( 1) week. 

Hours defined as 7 A. 11. to 7 :30 P. nf. ~1onday to Friday, inclusive, 

are specified so as to permit any ad~litional working time that may 

be granted as hereina bove set forth. 

Amend Article VIII as follows ·: 

Renumber old Sections 2 to 10 inclusive, to read Sections 1 to 9 

inclusive and give them the title "Article IX-Trade Practices"; 

change the title of Article VIII to read " Costs and Price Cutting "; 

delete old Section 1 and substitute therefor the following new Sections 1 and 2; 

ARTICLE VIII-C.osTs ~-lND PRICE CuTTING 

SECTION 1. The standards of fair competition for the Industry 

with reference to pricing practices are declared to be as follows: 

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(a) Wilfully destructive price cutting is an unfair method of 

competition and i forbid len. Any member of the Indu try or of 

any other indu try or the cu tomers of either may at any tinie complain to th° Code Authority that any quoted price constitutes unfair 

competition as de tructive price cutting, imperiling s11i.all enterprise 

or t ending t "ard monopoly or the impairment of Code wages and 

working conditions. The Code Authority shall within five ( 5) days 

aff or l an opportunity to th member quoting the prico to answer such 

complaint and shall within fourteen (14) days make a ruling or 

adjustment thereon. If such ruling is not concurred iri by either 

party to the complaint, all papers shall be referred to the Research 

and Planning Division of N. R. A . which shall render a report and 

recommendation thereon to the Admini trator. 

(b) ,Vhen no declared emergency exists as to any given product, 

there is to be no fixed minimum basi for prices. It is intended that 

sound cost estimating methods should be used and that consideration 

should be given to costs in the determination of pricing policies. 

( c) ,Vhen an emergency exists as to any given product, sale below 

the stated minimum price of such product, in violation of Section 

2 hereof, is forbidden. 

SECTION 2. Enie1·gency Provisions.-(a) If the Administrator, 

after investigation shall at any time find both (1) that an emergency 

has arisen within the Industry adversely affecting small enterprises 

or wages or labor conditions or tending toward monopoly or other 

acute conditions which tend to defeat the purposes of the Act; and 

(2) that the determination of the stated minimum price for a specified product within the industry for a limited period is necessary to 

mitigate the conditions constituting such emergency and to effectuate 

the purposes o:f the Act, the Code Authority may cause an impartial 

agency to investigate costs and to recommend to the Administrator 

a determination of the stated minimmn price of the product affected 

by the emergency and thereupon the Administrator may proceed to 

determine such stated minimum price. 

(b) ,iVhen the Administrator shall have determined such stated 

minimum price for a specified product for a stated period, which 

price shall be reasonably calculated to mitigate the conditions of 

such emergency and to effectuate the purposes of the National Industrial Recovery Act , he shall publish such price. Thereafter, during such stated period, no member of the Industry shall sell such 

specified product at a net realized price below said stated minimum 

price and any such sale shall be deemed destructive price cutting. From ti1ne to time, the Code Authority may recommend review or 

reconsideration or the Administrator may cause any determinations 

hereunder to be revised or reconsidered and appropriate action taken. 

AMENDMENT 

Add a Section to Article VIII (New Article IX) to be known as 

Section 10, which will read as follows : 

SECTION 10. Quoting of more favorable terms of cash payment 

than thirty days net, two per cent for cash if paid within ten days. 
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AMENDMENT 

Amend Article VIII (New Article IX) by adding a new Section 

11. 

New Article I X, Section 11, will then read as follows : 

ARTICLE I X- TR.ADE P RACTICES 

SECTION 11. I n order to eliminate Design P iracy as construed by 

the Registering Authority, it shall be an unfair trade practice for 

any member of the Industry to engrave or process a design or pattern which has been registered with, and approved by, the Register- ing Authority evidenced by the stamp and registration number of 

such Authority imprinted on the original drawing or sketch of such 

design or pattern, without the written consent of the person in whose 

name such design or pattern is registered. Every concern in this 

Industry engraving such registered designs or patterns shall engrave 

such registration number of the design or pattern on the roller, when 

so requested, separate charge being made for that service. A design, 

however, which the Registering Authority has stamped as "staple" 

need not bear any registration number. 

The Registering Authority, as used herein, means the Textile Design Registration Bureau of the Federated Textile Industries, Inc., 

a Connecticut non-profit corporation having its principal office at No. 

468 Fourth Avenue, New York City, or such other Bureau as may be 

designated from time to time, in accordance with authority conferred 

under the Code or Codes approved by the President and/or the 

Administrator for any branch of the Textile Printing Industry. The 

provisions hereof shall apply only to the engraving of designs for 

such branches of the textile printing industry operating under codes 

of fair competition requiring registration of designs and providing 

that designs so registered shall be reproduced only with the consent 

of the person registering the same. 

AMENDMENT 

Amend Article IX-:Modification by deleting the present Article 

and substituting as a new Article X the following: 

ARTICLE X-LIMITATION AND RESTRICTION OF PLANT EQUIPl\IENT 

Recommendations (1) for the requirement of registration by persons engaged in the Industry of their productive machinery, which 

is defined to mean and include pantagraph machines, engraving ma-

<.'hines, and any other machine which in itself produces a finished 

product; (2) for the requirement that prior to the installation of 

additional productive machinery by persons engaged or engaging in 

the Industry, except for the replacement of a. similar number of 

existing machines, or to bring the operation of existing productive 

machinery into balance, such per. ons shall secure certificates that 

such installation will be consistent with effectuating the policy of 

the National Industrial Recovery Act during the period of emergency; and (3) for the granting or withholding by the Administrator 
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of such certificates i:f so required by him, may be made by the Code 

Authority and upon approval by him such recommendations shall 

become effective and binding upon every member of the industry. 

The Administrator, however, shall not consider recommendations 

( 1 to 3) herein provided unless the Joint Industrial Rela tions Board, 

created by Article VI of this Code shall have first given its approval 

:for the necessity thereof. 

AMEN Dl\IENT 

Delete Article X-Monopolies and substitute therefor Article XIModification, to read as follow : 

SECTION 1. Thi Code and all the provisions thereof are expres ly 

made subject to the right of the President in accordance with the 

provisions of Section 10 (b) of the Act, from time to time, to cancel 

or modify any order, approval, license, rule or regulation issued 

under said Act. 

SECTION 2. This Code, except as to provisions required by the Act, 

may be modified on the basis of experience or change in circumstances, such modification to be based upon application to the Acln1inistrator and such notice and hearing as he shall specify, and to 

become effective on approval by the President. 

AMENDMENT 

Delet e Article XI-Effective Date and substitute therefor Article 

XII-Th1onopoli s, to read as follows : 

SECTION 1. Nothing in this Code shall be interpreted or applied 

in uch manner as to permit or promote monopolies or monopolistic 

practices, permit or encourage unfair competition or to eliminate, 

oppress or discriminate against small enterprises. 

AMENDMENT 

Adel new Article XIII-Effective D ate, to read as follows: 

SECTION 1. This Code shall become effective on the tenth day after 

its approval by the President. 

ApproYed Code No. 324-Amendment No. 2. 

Registr y No. 504-9-01. 

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