NATIONAL RECOVERY ADMINISTRATION 

CODE OF FAIR C·O·MPETITION 

FOR THE 

DREDGING INDUSTRY 

AS SUBMITTED ON AUGUST 26, 1933 

REGISTRY No. 1618A-2-01 

The Code for the Dredging Industry 

in its present form merely reflects the proposal of the above-mentioned 

industry, and none of the provisions contained therein are 

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to be regarded as having received the approval of 

the National Recovery Administration 

as applying to this industry 

UNITED STATES 

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 

WASHINGTON : 1933 

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CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION-THE DREDGING 

INDUSTRY 

The Dredge Owners Organization, representative of dredging 

contractors of the United States, exclusive of the Great Lakes Division, United States Engineer Department, propose that they cooperate 

with the President of the United States in effectuating the policy 

declared in Title I of the National Industrial Recovery Act. 

• Therefore, it recommends and submits for approval pursuant to 

Section 3 of said Title the following plan of procedure and Code of 

Fair Competition for public and private construction work insofaras 

it pertains to dredging and marine rock removal. 

ARTICLE I 

(a) This Organization will impose no inequitable restriction on 

admission to membership therein and is truly representative of the 

dredging industry in the territory above defined. 

(b) This Code is not designed 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 1. 

(c) This Code shall not perinit monopolies or monopolistic practices. 

ARTICLE II 

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

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

their agents in the designation of such representatives or in selforganization or in other concerted activities for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection. 

(b) 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 

(c) Employers shall comply with the maximum hours of labor, 

minimum rates of pay, and other conditions of employment approved 

or prescribed by the President. 

ARTICLE III 

(a) No convict labor shall be employed on any project. 

(b) So far as practicable and feasible, no individual directly employed on any such project shall be perinitted to work more than 

30 hours in any one week, except in executive, administrative, and 

supervisory positions. 

(c) Minimum hourly rates for labor shall be those given in schedule 

below. (N.B. The divisions and districts referred to below are those 

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into which the United States is divided by the Corps of Engineers,, United States Army .) 

Ashore Afloat 

North Atlantic Division, except Philadelphia _· ----------------------------------------- $0.55 $0. 55 Philadelphia D istrict__ ________________________ _________ __ __ ___ __ ____ __ _____ ________ _ . 45 .45 

South Atlantic Division, except Baltimore and Washington __ __ _________ __________ ___ __ _ . 35 . 40' Baltimore and Washington District. ____ ____ __ _____ ______ ______________ ______ _____ _ _ . 40 -40, 

Upper Missi~sippi Valley Division: Pittsburgh _________ ________ ___ _____ __________________ _______ ______ ____ ____ _________ _ . 50 . 50' Pittsburgh Rural District_ _________ __ __________ ___ ___ ___ ____ __ _____ ______ __ _______ _ _ . 40 . 40 H untington, West Virginia, and Cincinnati_ ___ ___ __ __ __ ___________ _______ ___ ____ __ _ . 40 . 401 Louisville District, Ohio River_ __ __ ________________ ___ ___ __ __ ___ ___ _____ ____ _____ __ _ . 40 . 40' Green and Barrow River, Louisvi.lle District. __ ____ ________ __ __ _________ ____ __ ____ _ _ . 35 . 40 Nashville District_ ________ ______ ______________________ ____ __ __ ____ _____ _______ ___ __ _ . 35 . 40 Chattanooga District_ _____ _______________ ___ _______ __ __ __________ ______ ______ __ ____ _ . 87 . 40 St. Paul ______ _______ _______ ___ ____ __ __________ __ _______ _____ ____ __ _____ ____ ___ ___ __ _ . 40 .40 Rock Island ______________ ______ ___ __________________ ____ ___ _______ _____ ___ _______ __ _ . 40 . 4D' St. Louis ___________ _____ ___ __ ____ ____ ____________ __________ ______ _____ ________ ___ __ _ . 50 . 501 

Chicago and Joliet. __ __ __ ____ ______ ______ _______ ____ _______ ____ _____ _____ ______ __ __ _ . 60 . 601 

J oliet to Starved Rock ___________ ______ __ ____________ __ ___ ___ ________ _____ _______ __ _ . 50 . 50 Below Starved Rock ______ _____ ___ _____ __________ ___ ____ __ ______ _____ __ _____ _______ _ .40 . 40' Kansas City District_ ____________ _________ ___ ____________________ ___ __ __ ____ _______ _ . 48 . 48 Gulf of Mexico Division ______ _________ _____ __ __ ________ _____ ________ ____ ___ __ ___ ______ _ _ . 35 . 40' Lo~er M!s~i~sippi Valley Division ___ ________________ _________ __ _______ ___ ____ __ _______ _ Pacific D1v1s1on ____ _____ __ ______ ___ ____ ______ ___ __________ __ _____ ____ ___ _______ ____ __ __ _ . 35 . 40· 

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ARTICLE IV 

To accomplish the purpose contemplated by this Act the members: 

signatory to this Code agree that it shall be unfair competition to• 

bid below reasonable cost as established by standard accounting 

methods, taking into account proper charges for depreciation and 

obsolescence. 

ARTICLE V 

To accomplish the purposes of the National Industrial Recovery 

Act, so long as the capacity of the dredging plant in the territory 

covered by the Code is amply sufficient to perform the dredging in 

this territory, it will be considered a violation of this Code to make 

any material increase in the plant capacity of the industry, except 

the maintenance and improvement of existing plant and replacement 

of lost plant. This restriction shall not apply to any plant actually 

under construction prior to July 15, 1933, nor to readjustments of or 

additions to plant for special applications. 

ARTICLE VI-AMENDMENTS 

This Code is subject by amendment to modification or enlargement as experience with the operation thereof may develop the necessity therefor. Such amendment shall be made only in the following 

manner: 

(a ) The proposed amendment to the Code, and bearing the written 

approval of a majority of the organization making up the Dredge 

Owners Organization, shall be transmitted to the Control Committee 

referred to in the bylaws. 
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(b) Upon the receipt of such proposed amendment thus approved, 

a meeting of the Control Committee shall be called upon due not.ice 

in writing and with all convenient speed. A copy of the proposed 

amendment, with a list of the organizations approving the same, shall 

be embodied in such notice. A complete duplicate copy thereof shall 

be sent at the same time to every member of the Dredge Owners 

Organization. Such proposed amendment shall be submitted to 

said Committee at the meeting thus called. 

(c) In case such proposed amendment shall be approved at said 

meeting by a majority of the Control Committee, after the filing of 

written proof by affidavit of compliance with the foregoing subdivisions 

(a) and (b), said proposed amendment shall be submitted to the President of the United States for his approval. Upon the approval of 

such amendment by the President of the United States, it shall become 

effective, otherwise to have no force or effect. 

EFFECTIVE DATE 

This Code shall be effective when approved by the President of the 

United States and shall be applicable only to contracts entered into 

after the date of such approval. 

Submitted by 

THE DREDGE OWNERS ORGANIZATION, 

DEWITT D. BARLOW, President, 

15 Park Row, New York, New York. 

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