Approved Code No. 219-Amendment No.4 Registry No. 1607-1-01 

NATIONAL RECOVERY ADMINISTRATION 

AMENDMENT TO 

C·ODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

BEDDING 

MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY 

AS APPROVED ON JULY 31, 1934 

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Approved Code No. 219-Amendment No. 4 

AMENDMENT TO CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

BEDDING MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY 

As Approved on July 31, 1934 

ORDER 

APPROVING AMENDMENT OF ConE OF F AIR CoMPETITION FOR THE 

BEDDING M AN U FACTURING 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 Bedding Manufacturing 

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, I, Hugh S. Johnson, Administrator for Industrial Recovery, 

pursuant to authority vested in me by Executive Orders of the President, including Executive Order No. 6543-A, dated December 30, 

1933, and otherwise ; do hereby incorporate, by reference, said annexed report and do 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 I of said Act, and do hereby order that said amendment be 

and it is hereby approved, and that the previous approval of said 

Code is hereby modified to include an approval of said Code in its 

entirety as amended. 

HuGH S. JoHNsoN, 

Administrator for Industrial R ecovery. 

Approval recommended: 

BARTON W. MuRRAY, 

Division Administrator. 

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REPORT TO THE PRESIDENT 

The PRESIDENT, 

The White House. 

Srn: This is a report on amendments to the Code of Fair Competition for the Bedding Manufacturing Industry as approved by me on 

January 23, 1934. Application was made under date of April 7, 

1934 by the Code Authority for the Bedding Manufacturing Industry for amendment of certain of the provisions of Articles II and 

VII of the said Code. All interested parties were given opportunity 

to present their views at a Public Hearing held on these proposed 

fourteen amendments on ~1ay 4, 1934. 

Four of these fourteen amendments have been approved by me. 

They are intended to clarify the language of that section of the Code 

which prohibits the use of second-hand or previously used material 

in the manufacture of bedding and regulates renovate or repair 

work, to clarify the Code's definition of second-hand and previously 

used material, to implement existing regulations pertaining to the 

tagging of bedding, and to require compliance with all provisions of 

the Code, notwithstandin~ requirements of State statutes. 

The Assistant Deputy Administrator in his final report to me on 

said amendments to said Code having found as herein set forth and 

on the basis of all the proceedings in this matter: 

I find that: 

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

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

National Industrial Recovery Act including the removal of obstructions to the free flow of interstate and foreign 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 respe~ts with the pertinent provisions of said Title of said Act, including without limitation sub-section (a) of Section 3, sub-section (a) of Section 7 and 

sub-section (b) of Section 10 thereof. 

(c) The Code empowers the Code Authority to present the aforesaid amendments on behalf of the industry as a whole. 

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

to and will not permit monopolies or monopolistic practices. 

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(e) The amendments 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. 

(f) 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. 

Therefore, I have approved said four amendments. 

Respectful! y, 

JULY 31, 1934. 

HUGH 8. JOHNSON, 

Adndnistrator. 
AMENDMENT TO CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION FOR 

THE BEDDING MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY 

AMENDMENT No.3 

Article VII, Part I , Section 1, the first paragraph, of the Bedding 

Code shall be and hereby is amended, by revising the said paragraph 

to read as follows : 

1. Second-hand nwterial: No member of the industry shall use 

second-hand or previously used material in the manufacture of bedding. No member of the industry shall sell any remade, renovated 

or repaired second-hand bedding. Remake, renovate or repair work 

on bedding is permitted only when a member of the industry does 

such work for the owner and user of the bedding and re-delivers it 

direct to such owner-user, but if in such work added material is 

needed, such added material shall not contain any previously used 

material. 

AMENDMENT N 0. 4 I 

Article VII, Part I, Section 1, second paragraph, of the Bedding 

Code shall be and hereby is amended, by deleting at the end thereof 

the words " new cotton " and inserting in lieu thereof the words, 

"fibres which are not 'second-hand' or 'previously used,'" the 

paragraph to read as follows: 

The terms "second-hand" or "previously used" material as used 

herein mean (a) any material which has been used in the manufacture of another article or used for any other purpose ; (b) any 

material made into thread, yarn, or fabric, and subsequently torn, 

shredded, picked apart, or otherwise disintegrated. (They do not 

include metals re-rolled under "white heat" or by-products obtained 

from the machining of fibres which are not "second-hand" or "previously used.") 

AMENDl\IENT N 0. 5 

Article VII, Part I, Section 3, of the Bedding Code shall be and 

hereby is amended, by revising said Section 3 to read as follows: 

3. Taggilng: No member of the industry shall make or sell a mattress, pillow, box spring, glider, or studio couch to which is not securely sewn by at least one edge a cloth or cloth-backed tag at least 

2 x 3 inches in size; and upon the face of said tag shall be legibly 

stamped or printed in English (a) the materials used to fill such 

bedding; (b) the name and address of the maker or vendor of the 

bedding. 

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When bedding is remade, renovated or repaired as authorized in 

Section 1, the above tag shall in addition be legibly stamped or 

printed on the fa.ce thereof with the word "Remade" or "Renovated " in letters at least one-eighth inch high. In the case of 

metal beds, springs, cots or cribs, the tag shall be securely attached 

thereto. 

N otlung likely to mislead shall appear on said tag and it shall 

contain all statements required hereunder, and shall be sewed to the 

outside covering of every article of such bedding before the filling is 

inserted. 

The name "felt" shall not be used unless the material described 

has been carded in layers by a garnett or carding machine. 

The words " Second Hand " in bold faced letters not less than 

three-quarters of an inch high and wide shall be legibly and indelibly 

stenciled on top and bottom of every second hand pillow, mattress.] 

pad, box spring, studio couch or glider, and on top of the head and 

foot end angle rails of every second-hand metal bed, spring, cot or 

crib, if such bedding has been used but not remade, renovated or 

repaired. 

AMENDMENT N 0. 8 

Article VII, Part I, Section 4, of the Bedding Code shall be and 

hereby is amended, by deleting the socond paragraph of subsection 

(g) and inserting in proper o-rder a new paragraph ( i) as follows: 

( i) This Code shall not be construed to relieve any member of the 

Industry from the requirements of State statutes, but notwithstanding the requirements of State statutes, each member of the Industry 

must comply with the provisions of this Code. 

Approved Code No. 219---Amendment No. 4. 

Registry No. 1607-1-01. 

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