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3 1262 08483 0032 Registry No. 299-36. 

NATIONAL RECOVERY ADMINISTRATION 

PROPOSED CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION I 

FOR THE 

WINDOW SHADE INDUSTRY 

AS SUBMITTED ON AUGUST 31, 1933 

WI DO OUR PART 

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The Code for the Window Shade Industry 

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

industry, and none of the provisions contained therein are 

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 

For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, Washington, D.C. - - - - - - - Price 5 cents 

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SUBMITTED BY 

THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WINDOW SHADE MANUFACTURIDRS 

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A CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION COVERING THE WINDOW 

SHADE INDUSTRY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 

SUBMITTED BY THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WINDOW SHADE MANUFACTURERS 

ARTICLE I 

This Code is submitted on behalf of the parties named 1n Appendix A attached hereto and made a part hereof. 

ARTICLE II-PURPOSE 

To effectuate the policy of Congress as expressed in the National 

Industrial Recovery Act, the Window Shade Industry, as represented by the National Association of Window Shade Manufacturers, 

adopt the following Code of Fair Competition. 

ARTICLE III-DEFINITIONS 

The term " Window Shade Industry'' when used in this Code 

shall_ include a natural person, partnership, or corporation engaged 

in the business of manufacturing, assembling, installing, repairing, 

refinishing, and cleaning window shades or such other services as 

are usually performed by this industry. 

The Window Shade Industry, when referred to in this document, 

shall be called the" manufacturers." 

The National Association of Window Shade Manufacturers when 

referred to in this document shall be called the "Association." 

ARTICLE IV 

Any manufacturer may participate in the endeavors of the Association relative to the revisions or additions to or the administration 

of this Code by accepting the proper pro rata share of the cost and 

responsibility of creating and administering it by becoming a member of this Association or by paying to it an amount equal to the 

dues, from time to time provided to be paid by a 1nember, in like 

situation, of the Association. 

ARTICLE V-REGULATIONS 

. ~he manufactu~·ers will comply with the following specific prov1s10ns of the N at10nal Industrial Recovery Act : 

;. That the employees shall have the right to organize and bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing. 

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2. That no employee and no one seeking employm.ent shall be 

required as a condition of employment to join any organization or to 

refrain from joining a labor organization of his own choo ing. 

3. That employers shall comply with the maximum hours of labor, 

minimum rates of pay, and other working condition , approved or 

pre cribed by the President. 

4. The President may from time to time cancel or modify any 

order, approval, license, rule, or regulation issued under this title. 

5. This code is not designed to promote monopolies and shall not 

be availed of for that purpose. 

6. The provisions of this Code shall not be so interpreted or administered as to eliminate or oppress small enterprises or to discriminate against them. 

ARTICLE VI-LABOR 

M axim,wm H 01,1,rs.-N o individual shall be employed in excess of 

forty ( 40) hours in any one week except as hereinafter specifically 

provided: 

(a) In emergency work in hospitals, institutions, schools and 

public buildings; 

(b) In pla-ces where hazardous machinery is in operation during 

the normal working hours of this industry; 

( c) For seasonal business peaks as determined by the locality, 

a,n individual may be employed not in excess of forty-four (44) 

hours in any one week but over a four ( 4) month period the hours 

of labor must not average over forty ( 40) hours per week. 

Except that executives and those in a managerial position and 

their secretarial staffs, outside salesmen, firemen, and office em.-

ployees receiving 1nore than Thirty-five Dollars ($35.00) weekly 

may be required to work more than forty ( 40) hours per week. 

Ohild Labor.-No minor under the age of sixteen (16) shall be 

employed in the industry provided, however, that where a state law 

provides a higher minimum age, no person below the age specified 

by such state law shall be employed within that state. 

No person under the age of eighteen (18) shall be employed in the 

industry in any work classed as hazardous. 

E1nployee Proprietorship.-With the exception of one individual 

per member of the Indu try, all members of any individual proprietorship, association, or corporation, although connected with such 

member as co-owner, partner, stockholder, officer, or director, if engaged in any process of direct manufactur~ or installation, of the 

products of the Industry, shall be bound by the schedules of hours 

of work and of pay in this Code, regardless of such proprietary 

interests. 

ARTICLE VII-,v AGRs 

It is hereby agreed that this indu try will not reduce the compensation for employment now in exce s of the minimum wages hereby 

agreed to (notwithstanding that the hours worked in such employment may be hereby reduced) and to increase the pay for such em-
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ployment by an equitable readjustment of all pay schedules. The 

minimum rate of pay forSouth: Per hour North: Per hour 

Shade Hangers ___ _________ 50¢ Shade Hangers ___________ 50¢ 

Shade Cutters ___ _________ 50¢ Shade Cutters ____________ 50¢ 

All others _______ ___ ___ ___ 32112¢ All others __ ________ ______ 371/2 ¢ 

vVhere an employee performs both factory and outside labor at 

varying rates he shall be paid the higher rate. 

The hours and wages provisions of this Code shall also govern 

allied line when carried as a regular part of the manufacturer's 

busines until specifically covered by any separate Code for such 

allied lines. 

ARTICLE VIII-ITE1\1S OF UNFAIR COMPETITION 

It shall be unfair competition for members of this Industry to: 

a. Brand or label or advertise goods or advertise his business rn 

any way that is false or misleading. 

b. Mi appropriate or attempt to disappropriate the business of 

competitors through misrepresentation of such competitors' merchandise or actions or by any other methods not generally approved as 

good business practice. 

c. Resort to any form of commercial bribery. 

cl. Fail to tate in all contracts a definite statement of price, quantity, and grade, terms of payment, time, rate, and place of delivery, 

and all other elements for a complete contract. 

e. To sell below a reasonable co t arrived at by a system established 

by the Cost Finding Committee of the Code Authority subject to the 

approval of the Ad111inistrator. 

f. Establish a cash discount in excess of 2%. 

g. Give or accept rebates, refunds, allowances, unearned discounts, 

or speciai services directly or indirectly with any work performed, 

or resort to any subterfuge whatsoever to frustrate the spirit or plan 

of this Code. 

h. Induce employees of competitors to violate contracts or entice 

away employees of competitors is condemned. 

i. Sell a window shade or a roller as a substandard or a second 

without clearly and conspicuously marking the shade as such on the 

bottom hem. 

j. Sell as a linen shade, a window shade not actually made of 

linen fabric. 

Stock Shades.-It shall be a violation of this Code to manufacture 

or sell stock shades in any other width than those already established by prevailing list as of July 10, 1933. All other sizes not included in the stock sizes above mentioned and all side hemmed shades 

shall be classed as special order shades. 

Direct Selling.-The practice of the manufacturer and suppliers of 

window shade materials used in the fabrication of window shades, 

selling same to the consumer shall be considered an unfair method of 

competition. 

Misleading Guarantees.-Where prices are quoted in advertising 

shades, size, quality, and grade of shade as determined by the industry must be plainly stated. 
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It being a fact that cotton is generally understood to be the basic 

material used in window shades, the sale of paper shades under 

trade names not indicating their origin is misleading and an unfair 

trade practice. 

ARTICLE IX-SUBSTANDARD MANUFACTURERS 

The industry recognizes as a continuing and growing evil the 

existence of the "substandard " or more popularly known as the flyby-night or sweatshop dealer. 

This type of dealer of window shades employs little or no labor, 

but personally solicits his business and his wife or family manufacture the product. He maintains no place of business or office, 

doing his manufacturing in his home, and for that reason it is impossible to properly supervise, ascertain hours of labor, wages paid, 

or the cost data or sanitary conditions of manufacturing. 

Six months after the effective date of this Code such substandard, 

sweatshop, and fly-by-night dealer shall be prohibited from having 

work done or labor performed on window shades in the living quarters of such manufacturer. 

ARTICLE X-ENFORCEMENT 

1. The Administration and enforcement of this Code shall vest 

in the Administrator and the Code Authority, the Code Authority 

to be established, in a. rea onable manner, from the members of the 

industry. The method of selection of the Code Authority is subject to the approval of the Administrator. 

2. The Association respectfully submits that its membership unanimously advocates a method of administration whereby the powers 

of enforcem.ent for each particular locality or region shall lodge in 

a local or regional affiliate of a national organization, and that the 

local or regional affiliate consists of members of the Industry operating in that particular locality or region. 

ARTICLE XI-CA :rcELLATION OR MomFICATION 

This Code is subject to modification or enlargement as experience 

with its operation develops the necessity therefor. 

ARTICLE XII-EFFECTIVE DATE 

This Code shall become effective ten days after its approval and 

acceptance by the President. 

Respectfully submitted. 

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION WINDOW SHADE 

MANUFAOTURERS CODE COMMITTEE. 

WM. H. BURG. , 

CARROLL E. FELLISSIER. 

L. SACKAMP. 

Dated at Washington this 1st day of Sept. 1933. 
APPENDIX A 

This code is filed in behalf of the following-named parties: The National 

Ass'n of Window Shade Mfrs., 10607 St. Clair Ave., Cleveland, Ohio; Retail 

Window Shade Ass'n of Grand Rapids, Mich., 120 Division St., Gra nd Rapids, Mich.; New England Shade & Screen Mfrs. Ass'n, 53 TTapelo Rd., Waltham, 

Mass.; Chicago Associated Retail Window Shade Dealers, 4915 Cottage Grove 

Ave., Chicago, Ill.; Washington State Window Shade Dealers. 2002 Market St., Seattle, Wash.; Twin City Window Shade Association, 518 W. Lake St., Minne- apolis, Minn.; Detroit Window Shade Mfrs. Association, Architects Bldg., Detroit, Mich.; Cincinnati Ass'n of Window Shade Mfrs., 1230 Vine St., Cincinnati, Ohio; Cleveland Association of Window Shade Mfrs., 6705 Detroit Ave., C'leveland, Ohio; San Francisco Window Shade Dealers Association, 1905 Fullmore St., San Francisco, Calif.; Dallas Association of Window Shade Mfrs., 1917 N. Harwood St., Dallas, Tex.; Toledo Association of Window Shade 

Dealers, 217 Fifteenth St., Toledo, Ohio; St. Loui Association of Window 

Shade Mfrs., 2616 Shenandoah Ave., St. Louis, Mo.; Indianapolis Association 

of Window Shade Mfrs. & Cleaners, 132 No. Delaware St., Indianapolis, Ind.; 

Retail Window Shade Association of Portland Oregon, 727 Sandy Blvd., Port· 

land, Oreg.; Milwaukee Window Shade Mfrs. Ass'n, 1211 No. 4th St., Milwaukee, Wis.; Southern Window Shade Ass'n, Richmond Chamber of Commerce, Trade Ass'n Bureau, Richmond, Va.; Window Shade Manufacturers 

Association of Brooklyn, N.Y., 318 Kings Highway, Brooklyn, N.Y.; Associated 

Window Shade Manufacturers of New Jersey, 178 Main Street, Orange, N.J.; 

Long I land Window Shade Manufacturers Association, 131-19 Jama ica Ave., Richmond Heights, Long Island, N.Y.; New York Window Shade Manufacturers Association, 270 Broadway, New York, N.Y. 

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