Approved Code No. 534 Registry No. 1627-02A 

NATIONAL RECOVERY ADMINISTRATION 

CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

HORSE HAIR DRESSING 

INDUSTRY 

AS APPROVED ON NOVEMBER 24, 1934 

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Approved Code No. 534 

CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

HORSE HAIR DRESSING INDUSTRY 

As Approved on November 24, 1934 

ORDER 

APPROTING THE BA IC ConE A THE ConE OF FAIR CoMPETITION FOR 

THE Hon E H AIR DRESSING INDUSTRY 

An application haYing been made pursuant to Administrative 

Order No. X-61, dated July 10, 1934, for the approval of the Basic 

Code, as amended and attached to the annexed report as Exhibit 

"A", as the Code of Fair Competition for the Horse Hair Dressing 

Industry, defined f or the purposes of this Order as follows: 

The term" Industry" as used h erein means and includes the dressing, elling and/ or wholesale distribution of "Horse Hair", and 

such related branches or subdivisions as n1ay from time to time be 

included under the provisions of this Code. 

NO"\V THEREFORE, on behalf of the President of the United 

States, the National Industrial Recovery Board, pursuant to authorjty vested in it by Executive Orders of the President, including Executive Or 1er 6859, dated September 2·7, 1934, and otherwise; does 

hereby 

(a) Incorporate by reference said annexed report and said Code, 

as attached hereto marked as Exhibit "A", 

(b) Find that said Code complies in all respects with the pertinent provisions and will promote the policy and purposes of Title I 

of the National Industrial Recovery Act, and 

(c) Order that said Code be and it hereby is approved as the 

Code of Fair Competition for the Horse Hair Dressing Industry, as 

above defined. 

This Order shall become effective ten (10) days from the date 

hereof unles prior to that time good cause to the contrary is shown 

to the National Indu trial Recovery Board and it, by its further 

order, otherwise directs. 

K ATION .A L INDUSTRIAL REcovERY BoARD 

B} "\V. A. H ARRIMAN, Administrative Officer. 

Approval reconLmended : 

PREKTI L. CooK LEY, 

Acting Di·vision Ad1ninistrator. 

\V A..'3Hl:NGT N D. c., 

N ovemb · Bl; 1934. 

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REPORT TO THE PRESIDENT 

The PRESIDENT, 

The White House. 

m: This i a r eport on the Basic Code of Fair Competition for 

the Horse Hair Dressing Industry, which was presented by duly 

qualified and authorized representatives of the Industry, complying 

-n-ith statutory requirements, said to represent one hundred per cent 

(100% ) in Yolume of sales of the Indu try which could be included 

in this Code. 

GENERAL STATEl\IENT 

.The Horse H air Dressers Association, being duly representative of 

the Horse Hair Dressing Indu try, has elected to avail itself of the 

option of submitting a Basic Code of Fair Competition, as provided 

in Aclmini, trative Order X-61, dated July 10, 1934. 

THE INDUSTRY 

This Industry buys "Horse Hair", dresses, and resells it, which 

includes the dressing, selling and/ or wholesale distribution of 

"Horse Hair." 

The Horse I-Iair Dressing Industry was originally granted a Code 

of Fair Competition on May 14, 1934, jointly with the Curled Hair 

1Ianufacturing Industry. It having been found more efficient to admini!='ter this Industry under t11e Basic Code, and the Industry having 

applied for a conditional exemption from all provisions of the approved Code, the Industry has made application to operate under the 

Basic Code. 

According to sta tistics furnished by members of the Horse Hair 

Dressing Industry, there are fifteen establishments active in the Ind n -try at the present time. At the time of granting the Curled Hair 

Manufacturing Industry and the Horse Hair Dre "ing Industry a 

Code of Fair Competition, there were twenty establishments in operation. The additional five establishment-s are reported to be closed. The aggregate invested capital in this Industry during the past 

six years has declined from $1,000,000 in 1929 to approximately $300,-

000 in 1934. This fluctuates acco,rding to the demand, as ilie majority 

of the capital invested in this Industry is stock-on-hand, the requirements for equipment and machinery being very small. 

The latest figures on annual sales for the year 1933 are estimated 

at $750,000. 

The numb-er of employees in this Industry fluctuates according 

to the demand for the products of this Industry. At the present 

time, there are approximately one hunch·ed persons employed. 

l\farkets for the Horse Hair Dressing Industry's products are exclusively jobbers, who, in most ca es, are also importers of dressed 

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lwr e l1air. These jobbers sell to bru h, hair cloth and furniture 

manufacturers and a few other small Industries. The before mentioned outlets being in their order as to volume used. 

The decline in the dome tic Industry has been due to the low cost 

of foreign dresse l horse hair imported mostly from Russia and 

China. The Industry has applied for an import duty. 

PROVISIONS OF THE CODE 

The Hour and Wage provisions of this Code are the same as in the 

Code of Fair Competition that was approved for thi Indu try on 

:May 14, 1934, which in the opinion of the Deputy, are suitable for 

this Indu try. No employee shall be permitted to work in excess of 

forty ( 40) hours in any one 11eek or eight ( 8) hours in any one day. 

The minimum wa<res in this Code are thirty-five cents (35¢) per 

hour for female employees and forty cent ( 40¢) per hour for male 

employees. The remaining provisions of the Code are tho e of the 

Basic Code o·f Fair Competition, a provided in Administrative 

Order X-61, dated July 10, 1934. 

FINDINGS 

The Deputy Administrator in his final report to the National Industrial Recovery Board on said Code having foun l as herein set 

fE>rth and on the basi of all proceedings in this rna tter : 

The National Industrial Recovery Board find that: 

(a) Said Code is well de igned to promote the policies and purposes of Titl_e I of the N a.tional Industrial Recovery Act, including 

the removal of ob truction. to the free flow of inter tate and foreign 

commerce which tend to diminish the amount thereof and will provide for the o-eneral V\ elfare by promoting the organization of indu try for the purpo e. of cooperative action among trade groups, by 

inducing and maintaining united action of labor and management 

under adequate governmental sanction and supervision, by eliminating unfair competitive practice , by promoting the fullest possible 

utilization of the present productive capacity of industries, by avoiding undue re triction of production (except as may be temporarily 

required), by increasing the consumption of industrial and agricultural products through increasing purchasing power, by reducing 

and relievincr unemployment, by improving standards of labor, and 

by otherwise r ehabilitating industry. 

(b) Said Indu try normally employs not more than fifty thousand 

persons; and i not clas ified as a major Industry. 

(c) The Code as approved complie in all respects with the pertinent provisions of said Title of said Act, including without limitation subsection (a) of Section 3, subsection (a) of Section 7, and 

sub ection (b) of Section 10 thereof; and that the applicant association is an industrial association truly representative of the aforesaid 

Industry; and that said association imposes no inequitable restrictions on admi sion to membership therein. 

(d) The Code is not designed to and will not p"'rmit monopolies or 

monopolistic practices. 
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(e) The Cod€ is not designed to and will not eliminate or oppress 

small enterprises and will not operate to discriminate against them. 

(f) Tho e engaged in other steps of the economic process will not 

have been deprived of the right to be heard prior to the effective date 

of said Code. For these r ea ons, this Code has been approved. 

F or the National I ndu trial Recovery Board : 

N OVE:MBER 2±, 1934. 

"v. A. I-IARRr f AN, 

AdministTative Officer. 
ExHIBIT A 

CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION FOR TI-IE HORSE HAIR 

DRESSING INDUSTRY 

ARTICLE I-PURPOSES 

To effectuate the policies of Title I of the National Industrial Recovery Act, the following provisions are .s ~abli shed as a Basic Code 

of Fair Competition which shall govern the Horse Hair Dressing 

Industry applying therefore in accordance with Administrative Order 

X-61, dated July 10, 1934. 

ARTICLE II DEFINITIO~ 

The term" Horse Hair Dressing Indu try " as used herein includes 

the dressing, selling and/ or wholesale distribution of "Hor e Hair", 

and such related branches or subdivisions as may from time to time 

be included under the provisions of this Code. 

ARTICLE III-Ho RS 

1. No employee shall be permitted to 'York in excess of forty (40) 

hours in any one week or eight (8) hours in any one day, except as 

herein otherwise provided. 

2. The provisions of this Article shall not apply to persons employed in a managerial or executive capacity who receive not less 

than thirty-five dollars ($35.00) per week, nor to traveling salesmen 

nor to employees engaged in emergency maintenance or emergency 

repair work involving protection of life or property, provided, howeYer, that all employees engaged in emergency maintenance or emergency repair work shall receive at·least one and one half times their 

normal rate of pay for all hours worked in exce s of forty-eight (48) 

hours in any one week or in excess of ten (10) hours in any twentyfour (24) hour period. 

3. No watchman, fireman or engineer shall ba permitted to work 

in excess of forty-four ( 44) hours in any one week. 

4. No employee shall be permitted to work more than six (G) days 

in any seven (7) clay period. 

5. Employers when working as producers shall be governed by the 

maximum working hours provided herein. 

6. No employee shall be permitted to work for a total number of 

hours in excess of the number of hours prescribed her ein whether he 

be employed by one or more employers. 

ARTICLE IV-vv AGEs 

1. No female employee shall be paid less than at the rate of thirtyfive cents (35¢) per hour and no male employee shall be paid less 

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than at the rate of forty cents ( 40¢) per hour, except as herein otherwise provided. 

2. A person whose earning capacity is limited because of age or 

phy ical or mental handicap may be employed on light work at a 

wao-e below the minimum established by this Code if the employer 

obtains from the State authority designated by the United States 

D::partment of Labor a certificate authorizing his employment at 

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

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

per on employed by him. 

3. Female employees performing ubstantially the same work as 

male employees shall receive the same rate of pay as male employees. 

4. This article e tablishes a minimum rate of pay which shall 

apply, irrespective of whether an employee is actually compensated 

on a time rate, piece-work performance or other basis. 

5. All wages shall be adjusted so as to maintain a lifferential at 

least as great in amount as that existing on June 16, 1933, between 

wages for such employment and the then minima. In no case ·hall 

there be any reduction of hourly rates; nor in weekly earnings for 

any reduction in hours of less than thirty per cent (30 % ). 

ARTICLE V-GENERAL LABOR PROVISIONS 

1. No person under sixteen (16) years of age hall be employed 

in the Industry. No person under eighteen (18) years of age hall 

be employed at operations or occupations which are hazardous in 

nature or dangerous to health. The Code Authority shall submit 

to the National Industrial Recovery Board within sixty (60) days 

from 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 

certifi'!ate or p€rmit duly signed by the Authority in such State 

empowered to issue employment or age certificates of permits showing 

that the employee is of the required age. 

2. In compliance with Section 7· (a) of the Act, it is provided: 

(a) That 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 activitie for the purpose of 

collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection. 

(b) That 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, organizi~g or as isting a lnbor organization 

of his own choosing, and 

(c) That employers shall comply with the maximum I. our of 

labor, minimum rates of pay, and other condition of employment, 

approved or pre cribed by the President. 

3. No employer shall reclassify employees or dutie of occupati ns 

performe 1 or engage in any other ubterfuge for the purpo e of 

defeating the purpo . .:es or provisions of the Act or of this Code. 

4. Every employer hall provide for the safety and health of em- ployees during the hours and at the pla ce~ of their employment. 
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Standards for afety and health shall be submitted by the Cole Authority to the National Industrial Recovery Board within three 

months after the effectiYe date of the Code. 

5. No pro vi ion in thi Code hall uper ede any tate or Foderal 

law which impo ·es on employer more tringent requirements as to 

age of employees, wao·c hour of work, or a to safaty health anitary or general working condition than are impo ed by this Code.. 

6. All emploj er hall po t and keep posted complete copies of the 

hour, wage and general labor pron ions of thi Code in con picuou 

places acce ible to employees. 

ARTICLE VI-ADl\liNISTRATION 

.This Cole hall be administered by the General N. R. A. Cole 

Authority which ·lwll be elected pursuant to, have the powers specified in. and function in accordance with Admini trative Order X-62, 

dated July 10, 1934 · pro\'ided, however that on approval by the N ational Indu trial RecoYery Board, the Hor e Hair Dre sing Indu -

try if it o desires may elect its own Code Authority to have powers 

and to function in the manner pre cribed for the general N. R. A. 

Code Authority and under such rule and r egulations as theN ational 

Industry Recovery Board may pre cribe. 

ARTICLE VII-TRADE P&\CTICES 

1. It hall be an unfair method of competition for any member 

of the H or e. Hair Dressing Industry subject hereto to violate any 

rule of Fair Trade Practice for such Industry even if not herein 

contained when approved by the National Indu trial Recovery 

Board or in the case of Trade Practice provisions for Trades or 

Indu tries under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of Agriculture 

when approYecl by uch Secretary, on application oncurred in by 

seventy-fi,e per cent (75 % ) of the members of such Trade. or 

Indu try. 

2. Price . rebate , discounts, commi sion and conditions of sale 

... hall be file l as pre ... cribed in Administrative Order No. X-62, dated 

July 10, 1934. and it hall be an unfair method of competition to 

violate or fail to comply with the terms of that Order. 

ARTICLE VIII-GF 'ERAL PROVISION 

Section 10 (b) of the National Indu trial Recovery Act is hereby 

incorporated herein by reference and this Code. is expressly made 

subje t ther eto. 

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