Regi try No. 926-01 

N-. TIO L RE OVERY ADM! I TR TION 

CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

PAS TED SHOE STOCK 

INDUSTRY 

AS APPROVED ON MAY 3, 1934 

W£ DO OUR PART 

UNITED STATES 

GOVERN lENT PRI~TING OFFI E 

WASlllNGTON: 1934 

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This publication is for sale by the Superintendent of Documents, Government 

Printing Office, Washington, D.C., and by district offices of the Bureau of Foreign 

and Domestic Commerce. 

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Approved Code No. 413 

0 E OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

PASTED SHOE STOCK INDUSTRY 

As Approved on May 3, 1934 

ORDER 

ArrnoYL To CoDE oF FAIR C MPETITION F R THE P A TED SHoE STocK 

L DU TRY 

n application having be n d 1ly made pursuant t and in full 

complian c with the pro' i ion of Title I of the National Indu trial 

R ov ry t approved June 16 1933, for approval of a Code of 

Fair ompetition for the Pa ted Shoe Stock Indu try, and hearings 

havin been dulv held thereon and the annexed report on said 

ode containin o- findings with respect thereto having been made 

an directed to the Pre ident : 

0\V, THEREFORE, on behalf of the Pre ·ident of th nit d 

tate , I Hugh S. John on, .Administrator for Indu trial Recovery, 

pur uant to authority e ted in me by Executive Order£~ of he 

Pre-ident including Exec uti e Order No. 6543-.A, dated Dec mber 

30 1933, and otherwi e; do hereby incorporate by reference said 

annexed report and do find that said Code complies in all re pects 

with the pertinent pro i ions and will promote the policy and purp e of said Title of aid .Act; and do hereby order that aid Code 

,f Fair Competition be an it is hereby approv d, provided further that within ninety days I may direct that there be a further 

h arino- on ·uch of the provi ions of said Code a I may de io-nate, 

and that any order which I may make after such hearing hall have 

the effe t of a condi ion on the approval of said Code. 

H o~ S. JoHN oN, 

Administrator for Industrial Reco1Jery. 

A p ro\al recommended : 

GEo. L. BERRY, 

Divisional Administrator. 

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REPORT TO THE PRESIDENT 

The PRESIDENT, 

The vV hite House. 

Sm: This is a report on the approved Code of Fair Competition 

for the Pasted Shoe Stock Industry, the hearing on which was conducted in "\Vashington on March 12, 1934, in accordance with the 

provisions of the National Indu trial Recovery Act. 

The maximum hours provided in this Code are eight ( 8) hours 

per day and thirty-six (36) hours per week, with a tolerance of 

four (4) hours per week during any eight (8) weeks of a six (6) 

months' period, an exception being made for emergency maintenance and repair work for which the daily and weekly limits may be 

exceeded, by payment of time and one-third for all overtime. 

The minimum wages provided in this code are as follows: In 

any city over 250,000 population, thirty-seven and one half cents 

(37Jj2¢) per hour for males and thirty-two and one-half cents 

(32Jj2¢) per hour for females; in any city between 20,000 and 250,000 

population, thirty-six and one-quarter cents (3614¢) per hour for 

males and thirty-one and one-quarter (3114¢) per hour for females; 

in cities or towns of less than 20,000 population, thirty-five cents 

(35¢) per hour for males and thirty cents (30¢) per hour for 

fe1nales. 

No person under sixteen (16) years of age shall be employed or 

engaged in this industry. Home work in this industry shall be 

abolished on August 1, 1934. 

The operation of making pasted shoe stock consists of spreading 

a soft paste on the unit being made and then laying a thin sheet of 

scrap leather on this unit. This is repeated until the unit reaches 

the desired thickness. Pasted shoe stock is used largely for inner 

soles in cheap shoes and is a substitute for solid leather. The work 

is light, and the process itself is done entirely by women. The. contra,ct of employment is very casual. Many pasters are married 

women and it is common practice for them to cease working of their 

own accord and then return to work in a few weeks or months, the 

employers not hesitating to reemploy them. Pasters are not required to produce a minimum number of units a day. They work 

leisurely or not, depending on their ambition to increase their pay, 

the rate being almost entirely on a piece work basis. 

Pending the approval of their own code, pasted shoe stock manufacturers have been operating under the wage and hour schedule 

of the Boot and Shoe Code. This yields to the employee a much 

higher average per week than that received during the period from 

1924 to 1929. 

Practically the entire volume of the products of this industry 

are sold to the shoe manufacturing industry. 

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emHuaH S. JoHN oN, 

Administrator. 
CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION FOR THE PASTED SHOE 

STOCK INDUSTRY 

ARTICLE I-PURPOSES 

To effect the policies of Title I of the National Industrial 

Recovery Act, this Code is established as a Code of Fair Competition 

for the Pasted Shoe Stock Industry, and its provisions shall be the 

standards of fair competition for such industry and shall be binding 

upon every member thereof. 

ARTICLE II-DEFINITIONS 

SECTION 1. The term "Industry" as used herein is defined to 

mean the manufacture for sale of pasted shoe stock of leather, fibre 

board and paper, but excludes the manufacture of the products of 

this industry by shoe manufacturers exclusively for their own u e. 

SECTION 2. The term "Employee" as used herein includes any 

person engaged in any phase of the industry in any capacity in the 

nature of employee irrespective of the method of payment of his 

compensation, including members of the industry engaged in productive labor. 

SECTION 3. The term " Member of the Industry" as used herein 

includes, but without limitation, any individual, partner hip1 association, corporation or other form of enterprise engaged 1n the 

industry, either as an employer or on his own behalf. 

SECTION 4. The term " association " as used herein shall mean the 

National Pasted Shoe Stock Association. 

SECTION 5. The terms "President", "Act" and "Administrator" 

as u d herein shall mean respectively the President of the United 

States, Title I o£ the National Industrial Recovery Act, and the 

Administrator for Industrial Recovery. 

ARTICLE III-HouR AND RATES OF PAY 

SECTION 1. Except as hereinafter provided no employee, including 

office workers, shall be permitted to work more than 8 hours in any 

one day or 36 hours in any one week; provided, however, that during 

any 8 weeks of a 6 months' period (the first period to begin on the 

effective date o£ this code), employees may be permitted to work 

not more than 40 hours per week. 

(a) The foregoing maximum hours o£ labor shall not apply to 

employees in a managerial or executive capacity who receive more 

than $35.00 per week, nor to outside salesmen. 

(b) Said maximum hours of labor shall not apply to employees 

engaged in emergency maintenance or repair work, but in any such 

ca e at least one and one-third the normal rate of compensation shall 

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ARTICLE IV-GENERAL LABOR PROVISIONS 

SECTION 1. No person under 16 years of age shall be employed 

in the industry. No person under 18 years of age shall be employed 

in occupations or operations hazardous in nature or dangerous to 

health. The Code Authority hall submit to the Administrator for 

approval within 30 days after the effective date of this Code, a list 

of such operations or occupations. In any state an employer shall 

be deemed to have complied with this provision as to age 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 

or permits showing that the employee is of the required age. 

SECTION 2. (a) 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 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 choo ing, 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. · 

SECTION 3. No provision in this Code shall supersede any state or 

federal law which imposes on employers more stringent requirements 

as to age of employees, wages, hours of work, or as to safety, health, 

sanitary or general working conditions, or insurance, or fire protection, than are imposed by this Code. 

SECTION 4. No employer shall reclassify employees or duties of occupations performed or engage in any other subterfuge for the 

purpose of defeating the purposes or provisions of the Act, or of this 

Code. 

SE TION 5. E very employer shall make reasonable provisions for 

the safety and health of his employees at the place and during the 

hous of their employment. No work shall be done or permitted in 

tenement, private houses, basements, or in any unsanitary buildings 

or buildings unsafe on account of fire risks. vVithin 60 days after 

the effective date of this Code, the Code Authority shall submit to 

the Administrator for his approval, proposed minimum standards of 

safety and health for employees. 

SECTION 6. No home work shall be permitted after August 1, 1934. 

SECTION 7. No employee shall be dismissed by reason of making a 

complaint or giving evidence with respect to an alleged violation of 

this Code. 

SECTION 8. All employers shall post complete copies of this Code 

in conspicuous places accessible to employees. 
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AnTICLE VI-PowERS AND DuTIES oF THE CoDE AuTHORITY 

The Code Authority shall have the following powers and duties 

and such other powers and duties as may be necessary for the proper 

administration of this code, the exercise of which shall be reported 

to the Administrator; and if the Administrator shall determine that 

any action of the Code Authority or any agency thereof may be unfair or unjust or contrary to the public interest, the Administrator 

may require that uch action be suspended to afford an opportunity 

for investigation of the merits of such action and further consideration by such Code Authority or agency pending final action which 

shall not be effective unless the Administrator approves or unless he 

shall fail to disapprove after 30 days notice to him of intention to 

proceed with such action in its original or modified form. 

SECTION 1. To coordinate the administration of this Code throughout the industry, with uch related codes, if any, as may affect the 

industry or members thereof. 

SECTIO"N 2. To present to the Administrator, either on its own 

initiative or at the request of interested parties, recommendations 

based on conditions in the industry as may develop from time to 

time, for modification of or amendments to this Code. When any 

interested party submits proposaL:. for amendments to the Code Authority, the Code Authority hall present such propo als to the 

Administrator, together with its recommendations for approval or 

disapproval. Upon approval by the Administrator after such hearings as he may prescribe, such amendments shall become integral 

parts of this Code. 

SECTION 3. The Code Authority may appoint such committees or 

agents as it may deem necessary and may delegate to them such of 

its powers and duties as it may deem proper for the administration 

of this Code; provided, however, that final responsibility as to any 

powers or duties so delegated shall remain with the Code Authority. 

SECTION 4. To appoint a trade practice committee which shall 

meet with the trade practice committees appointed by the Code 

Authorities of other codes which may be related to the industry for 

the purpose of formulating fair trade practices to govern the relationships between such industries to the end that such fair trade 

practices may be propo ed to the Administrator as amendments to 

this Code and such other codes. SECTION 5. Members of the industry shall file with a confidential 

agent or agents elected by the Code Authority, at such time and 

in such manner as may be prescribed by it, statistics covering number 

of employees: wage rates, employee earnings, hours of work and 

such othar data as may be necessary for the proper administration 

of the Code, and required either by the Code Authority or by the 

Admini trator. All individual reports submitted shall be kept confidential and only general summaries thereof shall be published, provided, however, that any individual reports may be published with 

the written con ent of anyone ubmitting such reports, or if necessary to enforce the provi ions of this Code. Failure on the part 

of any manufacturers in the indu try promptly to supply such information as required under this article shall be deemed a violation 

of this Code. 
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d Authority may in or a non-profit 

ARTI LE VII-TRADE REG LATION 

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for which the lowest reasonable cost has been determined, at such 

prices or upon such terms or conditions of sale that the buyer will 

pay less therefor than the lowest reasonable cost of such products. 

SECTION 4. 1Jfawimu1n T1·ade T erms for D01nestic Purposes.-No 

member of the industry shall give a cash discount in excess of 2%, 

said discount to be allowed for payment of bills before 15th of month 

following date of invoice. Such terms shall not be subverted or 

evaded directly or indirectly through allowances, trade discounts, or 

secret rebates of. any kind. 

SECTION 5. Secret R ebates.-N o member of the industry shall 

secretly offer or make any payment or allowance of a rebate, refund, 

commission, credit, or offer to make or make any unearned discount, 

or excess allowance, whether in the form of n1oney or otherwise, nor 

shall a member of the industry offer or extend to any customer any 

special service or privilege not extended to all customers of the same 

class for the purpose of influencing a sale. 

(a) The paying of more than the market price for raw materials 

to a user of pasted shoe stock is a violation of this provision and is 

prohibited. 

(b) An allowance for freight andjor cartage of an amount exceeding the actual freight and cartage is a violation of this provision and 

is prohibited. 

SECTION 6. False Billing.-N o member of the industry shall withhold from or insert in any quotation or invoice any statement thllt 

makes it inaccurate in any material particular, including po t dating. 

SECTION 7. Inaccurate References to Oompetitors, Etc.-No member of the industry shall publish advertising (whether printed, radio~ 

display or of any other nature) which refers inaccurately in any 

material particular to any competitors or their goods, prices, values, 

credit terms, policies or services. 

SECTION 8. Interf erenoe with AnotAer's Cont1·acts.-No memher 

of the industry shall maliciously attempt to induce the breach of an 

exi ting _contract between a competitor and his customer or source 

of supply, nor shall any such member maliciously interfere with or 

obstruct the performance of such contractual duties or services. 

SECTION 9. A member of the industry may enter into contracts for 

future delivery for a stated quantity of pasted shoe stock, for a customer's requirements, to be shipped within a 60-day period, at the 

price for e.ach size and style as shown in the contract, provided, however, that 

The making of contracts, the terms of which require deliveries 

beyond 60 days from their dates is an unfair practice and a violation 

of this Code. 

ARTICLE VIII-MoNOPOLIES 

SECTION 1. No provision of this code shall be construed or applied 

so as to permit monopolies or monopolistic practices, or to elim.inate. 

oppress, or discriminate against small enterprises. 

AnTICLE IX-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 
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ARTI 'LE X- RI 'E L - 'REA .. 

\Vh r a the p li y of th Act t incr a e r al ur h.a. rng p w r 

will be mal more diffi ult of con ·mnmation· if price of good.· an l · incr a e a rapidly as wage._, it is recognized that price 

incr a e except uch a may be required to meet individual co t, 

houll be dela ed, but wh n made such increa es should, so far as 

po . ibl be limited to actual a lditional increa e in the eller~ co. ts. 

ARTI LE XI-DATE EFFECTI\'E 

Thi Code hall become effective on the lOth day after it shall 

ha\e been approv d by the Admini trator. 

Appr \er1 o<l ~o. 413. 

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