Approved Code No. 243 Registry No. 1122-1-05

NATIONAL RECOVERY ADMINISTRATION

CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION

FOR THE

SLIDE FASTENER INDUSTRY

AS APPROVED ON JANUARY 31, 1934

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Approved Code No. 243

CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION

FOR THE

SLIDE FASTENER INDUSTRY

As Approved on January 31, 1934

ORDER

APPROVING CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION

FOR THE

SLIDE FASTENER INDUSTRY

An application having been duly made pursuant to and i

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compliance with the provisions of Title I of the National In

Recovery Act, approved June 16, 1933, for approval of a 

Fair Competition for the Slide Fastener Industry, and h

having been duly held thereon and the annexed report on sa

containing findings with respect thereto, having been m

directed to the President:

NOW, THEREFORE, on behalf of the President of the U

States, I, Hugh S. Johnson, Administrator for Industrial R

pursuant to authority vested in me by Executive Orders of th

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dent, including Executive Order No. 6543-A, dated Decem

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1933, and otherwise; do hereby incorporate by reference said 

report and do find that said Code complies in all respects w

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pertinent provisions and will promote the policy and pur

said Competition Title of be said and Act; and do hereby order that said Code 

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tinued of (late stiution further America 37107*--313-168---04 of participation provided this and in Code bylaws the that Code shall of ito thehe provisions the Authority is be hereby Slide contingent satisfaction ( Fastener 63l5 approved; after of Article thirty upon of Manufacturers the .provided days its VII Administritamending ifrom the (Rule that Ass2)tceci
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as they prescribe a waiting period between the filing with t

Authority and the effective date of revised price lists or r

terms and conditions of sale be and they are hereby stayed p

my further Order either within a period of sixty days f

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effective date of this Code or after the completion of a s

open price associations now being conducted by the Natio

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covery Administration.

IiUGH S. JOhNSON

AdminIstrator for Tndustrial Rec

Approval recommended:

W. A. HARRIMAN,

Division A dmnistrator.

WASHINGTON, D.C.,

January 31, 191A4.
The PRESIDENT,

The White House.

SIR: This is a report on the Code of Fair Competition f

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Slide Fastener Industry, and on the hearing conducted th

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Washington, D.C., on December 13, 1933, in accordance w

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provisions of the National Industrial Recovery Act.

RESUME OF LABOR PROVISIONS

1fiice employees shall not be permitted to work in ex

four-week average of 40 hours per week, nor in excess of 4

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in any one week.

A limited number of employees engaged in emergency ma

or repair work, and highly skilled employees, the restr

whose working hours would necessarily restrict productio

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employment of others, may work not to exceed 40 hours w

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averaged over a period of 26 weeks, but time and one hal

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paid for such work in excess of 40 hours per week, except th

periods of peak or breakdown demand, necessary overtime m

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worked, but not to exceed 48 hours in any one week or 96 h

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any six months' period. Time and one half shall be paid fw

in excess of 8 hours per day or 40 hours per week.

These provisions shall not apply to outside salesmen or tp

employed in a managerial, executive, or advisory capacityi

capacity of sole responsibility, who receive more than $35 p

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nor shall they apply to watchmen, who may be employe

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exceed 42 hours per week averaged over any period of 13 co

weeks.

The minimum wage for all employees shall be 40 per h

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males and 37 # per hour for females, except that a limited n

of learners and apprentices may, for a limited period of b

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paid at the rate of 321/? per hour. Female employees pe

substantially the same work as male employees are performi

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substantially the same conditions shall receive the same rate 

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provided, however, that where any law prohibits the em

of females during night hours, work performed at night 

considered to be performed under substantially different c

from the same work during the day.

Equitable adjustments in all pay schedules of all employ

the minimum shall be made on or before the effective da

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Code by employers who have not heretofore made such adj

and or more NoThis occupations no personopularly person Industry under under which known is 16 engaged 18 are yars as years of GENERAL hazardous "zippers." of in age (637) the age STATEMENT shall in manufacture shall nature Practically be be employed employed or dangerous of the iii slide entire in the oIthfp
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tion of the Industry is sold as manufactured material to 

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consisting of concerns which, themselves, are manufacture

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wide vriiiiety of lines, among which are included manufact

clothing of a great , ariety, the leather products industry, th

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handbag industry, and the footwear industry. In such indu

the clothing and the leather manufacturing industry, there 

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erally hundreds of different articles of merchandise in wh

fasteners are employed.

The following statistics are submitted by the Slide Fastene

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facturers Association of America, to which all known mem

the Industry belong.

Number of Minimum Maximum Weekly Invested D

employees hourly wage weekly pay roll capital 

hours

1928 --------------------------- 671 $0. 256 61.6 $18,200 $2,478,167 $

1929--------------------------- 924 .238 67.5 23,350 3,273,758 4

1930 ..------------------------ - 1,034 .238 66.3 24,050 4,365, 136 4

1931-------------------------- 1,220 .223 67.7 29,850 5,758,482 5

1932 .-------------------------- 1,309 .217 68. 6 30,100 6,064,564 4

1933 ---..--.--------------- ------------ ------------ ------------ --------- 6,812,396 7

January ---------------------- 1, 182 .220 67.0 28, 500

March------------------------ 1,262 .211 65.4 28,700

November-------------------- 1,726 .343 44.2

FINDINGS

The Deputy Administrator in his final report to me on sa

having found as herein set forth and on the basis of all t

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ceedings in this matter:

I find that:

(a) The Code will promote the policies and purposes of TI

of the Act, including removal of obstructions to the free f

interstate and foreign commerce which tend to diminish the 

thereof and will provide for the general welfare by promot

organization of industry for the purpose of cooperative action 

the trade groups, by inducing and maintaining united a

labor and management under adequate governmental sancti

supervision, by eliminating unfair competitive practices, bp

moting the fullest possible utilization of the present pro

capacity of industries, by avoiding undue restriction of pro

(except as may be temporarily required), by increasing the c

tion of industrial and agricultural products through increasip

chasing power, by reducing and relieving unemployment, b

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proving standards of labor, and by otherwise rehabilitating i

(b) Said Industry normally employs not more than 50,

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ployees and is not classified by me as a major industry. nent Subsection section and to membership an (c) industrial that provisions The (b) said Code (a) ofgroup therein. Section of of as Section Title approved imposes truly 10 I thereof; representative 3, of no Subsection complies the inequitable Act, and in including that (a) of all restrictions the respects of the Section aforesaid applicant without with on 7, lim

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(d) The Code is not designed to and will not permit m

or monopolistic practices.

(e) The Code is not designed to and will not eliminate o

small enterprises and will not operate to discriminate again

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(f) Those engaged in otlier steps of the economic proc

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not been deprived of the right to be heard prior to approva

Code.

For these reasons, therefore, I have approved this Code

to the following condition: that the continued participatio

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Slide Fastener Manufacturers Association of America in t

Authority after thirty days from the effective date of this C

be contingent upon its aiending its constitution and bylawt

satisfaction of the Administrator.

Respectfully,

HoIri S. fJOUINSO

Admin i

JANUARY 311 1934.
CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION

FOR THE

SLIDE FASTENER INDUSTRY

ARTICLE I-PURPOSES

To effectuate the policies of Title I of the National In

Recovery Act, the following provisions are established as 

of Fair Competition for the Slide Fastener Industry, and 

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the standards of fair competition for such Industry and b

binding upon every member thereof.

ARTICLE II-DEFINITIONS

The term " Industry " as used herein includes and met

manufacture and sale of slide fasteners in the United State

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possessions, and such branches or subdivisions thereof as mf

time to time be included under the provisions of this Code b

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President after such notice and hearing as he may prescrib

The term "slide fastener " as used herein is defined to mt

form of fastening device which includes a pair of rows o

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engageable fastening elements which may be engaged or dis

by a member slidable along the rows.

The term " member of the Industry " means and inclub

without limitation, any individual, partnership, associatioc

poration, receiver, or other person engaged in the Industry

as an employer or on his own behalf.

The term " employee " as used herein means and includes 

all persons engaged in the Industry except a member of the In

however compensated.

The term "employer " as used herein means and inclu

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without limitation all individuals, partnerships, associations

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corporations, and receivers in the Industry by whom such em

are employed.

The terms " President ", "Act ", and "Administrator " 

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herein shall mean, respectively, the President of the United 

Title I of the National Industrial Recovery Act, and the A

trator for Industrial Recovery.

Population for the purposes of this Code shall be determ

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reference to the latest Federal Census.

or aged forty-eight ployees, SECTION SEC. be over permitted 2. shall work No any 1. (48) No employee, period to hours accounting, work or of be inARTICLE more fourexcept permitted any clerical, than one (4) (640) III-HOURS accounting, clerical, or week. consecutive forty to or work office (40) in employees weeks hourexcess per nofweshafornioofwte
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hours per week, provided however, that this limitation of m

weekly hours shall not apply under temporary condition

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seasonal or peak demand or break-down imposes an unu

temporary burden, in which case such number of hours m

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worked as are required by the necessity of the situation not t

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forty-eight (48) hours in any one week nor overtime in an

months' period in excess of ninety-six (96) hours, provided f

that time and one half or rate and one half, as the case may b

be paid for all time worked in excess of eight (8) hours in 

day of forty (40) hours in any one week.

SEC. 3. The maximum hours fixed in Section 2 of this Art

not apply to employees engraged in emergency, maintenance, 

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work, nor to highly skilled employees, the restriction of who

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ing hours would necessarily restrict production or the em

of others, but the number of employees subject to this Sec

not at any time exceed fifteen (15) per cent of the total n

employees of any employer, and in any such case at least t

one half or rate and one half, as the case may be, shall b

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for hours worked in excess of forty (40) hours in any o

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provided however, the number of hours of actual employ

any such employee shall not exceed an average of forty (4

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per week over a period of twenty-six (26) consecutive w

SEC. 4. The foregoing provisions of this Article shall not 

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outside salesmen or to persons employed in a managerial, e

or supervisory capacity, or in a capacity of sole responsibilityr

ing more than thirty-five dollars ($35.00) per week, nor st

apply to watchmen, provided, however, that watchmen sha

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employed in excess of forty-two hours per week, averaged 

period of thirteen (13) consecutive weeks.

SEC. 5. No employee shall work, or shall knowingly be p

by an employer to work, for a total number of hours in excet

number of hours prescribed for each week or day, whether 

by one or more employers.

ARTICLE IV-WAES

SECTION 1. Ocfte Employee.-No accounting, clerical or o

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ployee shall be paid less than at the rate of fifteen dollars ($1p

week in any city of over five hundred thousand (500,000) po

or in the immediate trade area of such city; nor less than a

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of fourteen dollars and fifty cents ($14.50) per week in an

between two hundred fifty thousand (250,000) and five hundt

sand (500,000) population, or in the immediate trade area 

city; nor less than at the rate of fourteen dollars ($14.00) pw

for cities or towns of less than two hundred fifty thousand 

population. employee, ers thirty-seven male ployees receive prohibits SEC. and employees 2. the apprentices, shall are Factory the excepting same performing and employment performing rate oneand Other accounting, of half under substantially pay; be cents of substantially forty Elnployees.-The provided, females clerical (37%0) cents during night however, (40 or per the office the ) hour same per hour minimum same employees that for work hours, conditiwhere foremawaas amwlFmelp
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formed at night shall be considered to be performed under s

tially different conditions from the same work performed dur

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day. When during periods of slump production male employ

transferred temporarily from work carrying a higher rate of p

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work carrying a lower rate of pay and ordinarily performed 

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females, the above specified differentials in minimum rates ma

as between males and females who may thus as a consequence b

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porarily performing substantially the same work under subst

the same conditions. The Code Authority shall within nine

after the effective date of this Code file with the Administ

description of all operations in the Inidustry in which both m

women are employed.

SEc. 3. The minimum wage for learners and apprentices 

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thirty-two and one half (32%g) cents per hour; provided, h

that, learners on piece-rate operations whose earnings exceed th

mininmm shall be paid the full amount they actually earn, a

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vided, further, that learners and apprentices employed by an

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vidual employer shall not collectively exceed ten percent (1

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the total number of employees of such employer. No employ

be considered a learner after eight weeks of employment by 

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plover, and nlo employee who has been employed for eight w

longer shall be reengaged by the same employer as a learner.

SEC. 4. All apprentices receiving less than the minimum w

forty cents (400) per hour must be under the age of twenty-o

years and under written contract with an employer covering a 

period of instruction in any specific craft recognized by the A

Federation of Labor.

SEc. 5. Any person whose earning capacity is limited becaus

or physical or mental handicap may be employed on light wo

wage below the minimum established by this Code if the em

obtains from the State Authority designated by the United 

Department of Labor a certificate authorizing his employment 

wages and for such hours as shall be stated in the certificate

Authority shall be guided by the instructions of the United 

Department of Labor in issuing certificates to such personsE

employer shall file with the Code Authority a list of all such p

employed by him.

SEC. 6. Guaranteed Minbmum.-This Article establishes a m

rate of pay which shall apply, irrespective of whether an emp

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actually compensated on a time rate, piecework, or other bas

SEC. 7. Wage A djustntents.-Equitable adjustments in all pa

uiles of all employees above the minimum shall be made on o

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the effective date of the Code by employers who have not her

made such adjustments and the first monthly reports of w

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quired to be filed under the Code shall contain all wage in

since years eighteen pations WthinSECT10N June of ninety whichage (18) 1. 16, shall Child ARTICLE years 1933. (90) are be Lobor, of hazardous days employed V-GENERAL age Proqisiono.-No from shall in the in the be nature employed effective LABOR Industry. person or PRoVIsIONs datet dangerous operations under of No this person sixteCoto ouhe
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member of the Industry shall furnish to the Code Authorit

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provided, a list of the hazardous occupations, operations, 

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chines in its plants.

SEC. 2. Provisions from the Act.-(a) Employees shall h

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2-ight to organize and bargain collectively through repres

of their own choosing and shall be free from the interfer

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straint, or coercion of employers of labor or their agent

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designation of such representatives, or in self-organizati

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other concerted activities, for the purpose of collective b

or other mutual aid or protection.

(b) No employee and no one seeking employment shall be r

as a condition of employment to join any company union 

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frain from joining, organizing, or assisting a labor organi

his own choosing, and

(c) Employers shall comply with the maximum hours 

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minimum rates of pay, and other conditions of employm

proved or prescribed by the President.

SEC. 3. Reclassiflcation of Employees.-No employer 

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classify employees or duties of occupations performed or e

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any other subterfugre for the purpose of defeating the prov

the Act or of this Code.

SEC. 4. State Laws.-No provisions in this Code shall 

any law within any State which imposes more stringent requ

on employers as to age of employees, wages, hours of wo

to safety, health, or sanitary conditions, or insurance, or fi

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tion, or general working conditions, than are imposed by t

SEC. 5. Posting.-All employers shall post complete copit

Code in conspicuous places accessible to all employees.

ARTICLE VI-ORGANIZATION, POWERS, AND DUTIES OF TH

AUTHORITY

SECTION 1. Organization.-A Code Authority is hereby co

to cooperate with the Administrator in the administration 

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Code.

SEC. 2. The Code Authority shall consist of five (5) mem

pointed by the President of the Slide Fastener Manufacture

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ciation of America, subject to the approval of the Board of D

of the Association, but no more than one member shall be a

from one member of the Industry. Each duly appointed m

of the Code Authority may designate, with the approval of t

Authority, an alternate member who may act as a memb

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Code Authority in the absence of the appointed memb

nating him.

In addition, the Administrator may appoint not to exc

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for ment shall Authority. (3) 'See The terms of from members shall be paragraph representatives given 1b so of 2 notice of of arranged the six order approving months Code who and that Authority may to may the tis one be Code. year do sit appointed without not at and expire all whose meetings by vote who atthe terms the Admsamof of sht
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SEc. 3. The Slide Fastener Manufacturers' Association sh

impose no inequitable restrictions on membership and (2) su

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the Administrator true copies of its articles of association, b

regulations, and any amendments when made thereto, togeth

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such other information as to membership, organization, and a

as the Administrator may deem necessary to effectuate the p

of the Act.

SEC. 4. In order that the Code Authority shall at all times b

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representative of the Industry and in other respects comply w

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provisions of the Act, the Administrator may provide such h

as he may deei proper; and thereafter if he shall find that t

Authority is not truly representative or does not in other r

comply with the provisions of the Act, may require an app

modification in the method of selection of the Code Autho

any sub-Code Authority.

SEc. 5. Members of the Industry shall be entitled to partic

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and share the benefits of the activities of the Code Autho

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assenting to and complying with the requirements of this C

sustaining their reasonable share of the expenses of its adm

tion. Such reasonable share of the expenses of administrati

be determined by the Code Authority, subject to review by t

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ministrator, on the basis of such factors as may be deemed e

SEC. 6. Nothing contained in this Code shall constitute th

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bers of the Code Authority partners for any purpose.

SEC. 7. Powers and Duties.-The Code Authority shall h

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following powers and duties to the extent permitted by t

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subject to the right of the Administrator, on review, to dis

any action taken by the Code Authority.

A. POWERS

(a) To use such trade associations and other agencies as i

proper for the carrying out of any of its activities prov

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herein and to pay such trade associations and agencies t

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thereof, provided that nothing herein shall relieve the Code A

ity of its duties or responsibilities under this Code and th

trade associations and agencies shall at all times be subjec

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comply with the provisions hereof.

(b) To coordinate the administration of this Code with su

codes, if any, as may be related to the Industry, or any sub

thereof, and to delegate to any other administrative authori

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the approval of the Adlministrator, such powers as will promj

and harmonious action upon matters of common interest.

(c) To secure an equitable and proportionate payment t

expenses of maintaiming the Code Authority and its activiti

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those itie provisions Administrator ISuch this fication uclh (d)e) Code. of recommendation hearing( members of To To the or initiate, make against amendment Code and in recommendations Authority effecting the consider notice selling upon Industry of as the and below thisee or purpose shall make approval who otherwise assent Code. for cost, accept prescribe, recommendations fair and of oftradehis thethe otherwise shall benefits Code Administratopractices, to this become and for tf CodAcathintApm
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B. DUTIES

(a) To adopt bylaws and rules and regulations for its p

and for the administration and enforcement of the Code, in 

ance with the powers herein granted, and to submit the sam

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Administrator for his approval together with true copies 

amendments or additions when made thereto, minutes of m

when held, and such other information as to its activitie

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Administrator may deem necessary to effect the purposes 

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Act.

(b) To obtain through a confidential agency from mem

the Industry periodical reports in such form and at such tim

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respect to wages, hours of labor, conditions of employment, n

of employees, and such other matters pertinent to the pur

this Code as the Code Authority, with the approval of the A

trator, may require for the administration and enforcement 

Code, and to submit reports to the Administrator in such f

at such times as he may require in order that the Presid

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be informed as to the observance or nonobservance of this C

to further effectuate the policies of the Act. The confidentia

shall be an accountant or firm of accountants of national re

and all reports received by such confidential agency shall be h

secret and confidential and disclosed to no person, except t

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shall be made available to the Administrator on request

Code Authority. Such agency shall analyze, digest, and co

such reports and except as provided above shall disclose, b

to the Code Authority, general findings based thereon and n

to the administration of the Code. Where a specific inve

is required by the Code Authority of any member of the Ind

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determine whether or not such member has violated Trade P

Rule 1 of this Code, the agency for such investigation shalb

of not less than three accountants or firms of accountants no

by such member of the Industry, but in the absence of such n

tion after notice from the Code Authority, the Code A

may select such agency on its own initiative. Any accou

firm of accountants selected or nominated to act under t

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visions of this section shall be a certified public accountant 

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of certified public accountants or an accountant or firm of 

ants having the equivalent in qualifications and ability of a c

public accountant; provided, however, that as to any servi

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performed in any particular State or Governmental subdiv

the United States, such accountant or firm of accountants i

event shall have qualifications required by law in such 

Governmental subdivision of the United States for the perf

of such service.

tigations plaints, tion, violations. of the agreed(c)d) recommendations To To N.R.A. to, and thereof, receive and are cooperate bring Code complaints provide to complying the with Insignia attention and the hearings of with information Administrator solely violations of this thereon, and the by Code. Administrator those of relative this in employers regulating Code, adjust to for makiunsuwcptuh
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SEc. 8. General Administrative Prov ision.-In addition to t

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formation required to be submitted to the Code Authority 

forth in this Article there shall be furnished to government 

such statistical information as the Administrator may deein

sary for the purposes recited in Section 3 (a) of the National I

trial Recovery Act.

ARTICLE II-TRADE PRACTICE RULES

general Drfli;ion;.-For all purposes of the Code, viol

the following_ rules described in this Article shall constitute u

practices. Any member of the Industry who shall directly, 

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rectly, through any officer, employee, agent, or representative

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ingly use, employ, or permit to be eniployed, any of such unfa

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tices, shall be guilty of a violation of the Code.

RULE 1. Ael//ng Below Cost.-No member of the Industr

sell or exchange any slide fastener or part thereof below t

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thereof to that individual member. Such cost shall include 

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charges at rates provided for under this Code, whether su

fastener in whole or in part is produced in the United S

elsewhere. However, any member may meet the price com

of any competitor in this Industry whose costs under this Co

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vision are lower than his own. Cost shall be determined in 

ance with the principles enumerated in any standard cost 

formulated by the Code Authority with the approval 

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Administrator.

RULE 2. Price Lists.-Each member of the Industry shap

and shall publish a list showing its own sale prices of first

slide fasteners and parts thereof. Each such list shall bear t

of issue thereof and/or the effective date thereof and shall i

a schedule of terms of payment and of all discounts which mb

offered to the trade by the member publishing the list. As r

any slide fasteners sold or delivered by any member of the I

for use or consumption in the United States, no quotation 

of prices lower or terms of payment or discounts more fa

shall be made than those set forth in such member's price lt

in effect for first-quality slide fasteners. No member of the I

try shall make any change or alteration in any item or detai

own published price list including prices, terms of payment 

counts, without having given the Code Authority ten days' 

notice in writing of any such chance or alteration and witho

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ing delivered to the Code Authority at the time of filing suc

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a supply of such member's new printed price lists or a supply 

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rection or alteration memoranda setting forth such change 

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effective date thereof, which supply shall be in number sufft

enable list of member which notice in orandumn be the each furnished effective Industry. the such of of Code the the change case to not was Industry Industry the Authority earlier given copies The Code or Code alteration to of may Authority than immediately the tohe Authority thereupon deliver Code the new in effective in Authority printed the a upon quatities shall copy old ater date receipt price so thereof or change as deliver sufficient of above list list or thereof, the toshall a provi

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ing copies thereof to each member of the Industry. Nothin

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Rule 2 shall apply to sales of slide fasteners by one memb

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Industry to another member of the Industry.2

RULE 3. False Billing.-No member of the Industry sha

to any customer a greater number of complete slide-faste

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or parts thereof than are billed and charged to such custom

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transaction under which such delivery is made. No memb

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Industry shall grant any rebate on the price billed and c

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a customer or deliver to a customer at a price lower than th

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price thereof, or free of charge, any other kind of merchand

than slide fasteners, or parts thereof, as an inducement to p

slide fasteners.

ARTICLE VIII-MODIFICATION

SECTION 1. This Code and all the provisions thereof are 

made subject to the right of the President, in accordance w

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provisions of subsection (b) of Section 10 of the Act, from t

time to cancel or modify any order, approval, license, rule, 

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lation issued under Title I of said Act, and specifically, bu

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limitation, to the right of the President to cancel or m

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approval of this Code or any conditions imposed by him u

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approval thereof.

SEC. 2. This Code, except as to provisions required by t

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may be modified on the basis of experience or changes in c

stances, such modification to be based upon application to thA

istrator and such notice and hearing as he shall specify, atb

come effective on approval of the Administrator.

ARTICLE IX-MONOPOLIES, ETC.

No provision of this Code shall be so applied as to permit m

lies or monopolistic practices, or to eliminate, oppress, or 

inate against small enterprises.

ARTICLE X-PRICE INCREASES

Whereas the policy of the Act to increase real purchasin

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will be made impossible of consummation if prices of g

services increase as rapidly as wages, it is recognized t

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increases except such as may be required to meet indivi

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should be delayed. But when made such increases shoul

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as possible, be limited to actual additional increases in th

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ARTICLE XI-EFFECTIvE DATE

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