Approved Code No. 294 Registry No. 404-C9 

NATIONAL RECOVERY ADMINISTRATION 

CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE ( 

GUMMED LABEL AND 

EMBOSSED SEAL INDlJSTRY 

AS APPROVED ON FEBRUARY 17, 1934 

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Approved Code No. 294 

CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

GUMMED LABEL AND EMBOSSED SEAL 

INDUSTRY 

As Approved on February 17, 1934 

ORDER 

APPROVING CoDE oF FAIR Col\IPETITION FOR THE Gul\r:MED LABEL AND 

EMBOSSED SEAL INDUSTRY 

An application having been clul~ made pur nant to and in full 

compliance with the provisions of Title I of the National Industrial 

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

Fair Competition for the Gummed Label and Embossed Seal Industry, and hearings having been duly held thereon and the annexed 

report on said Code, containing findings with re pect thereto, having 

been made and directed to the President: 

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

States, I , Hugh S. Johnson, Admini trator for Indu trial Recovery, 

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

1933, and otherwise; do hereby incorporate by reference said annexed 

report and do find that aid Code complies in all respects with the 

pertinent provisions and will promote the policy and purpo,·es of said 

Title of aid Act; and do hereby order that said Code of Fair Competition be and it is hereby approved; provided, however, that the 

provisions of Article VI, Sections 2 to 9 inclu ive, insofar as they 

prescribe a waiting period between the filing with the Code Authority 

(i.e. actual receipt by the Code Authority) and the effective date of 

revised price li. ts or revised term and conditions of sale be and they 

are hereby stayed pending my further order; provided further, that 

within ninety days I may direct that there be a further hearing on 

such of the provisions of said Code as I may designate, and that any 

order vvhich I may make after ·uch hearing shall have the effect of a 

condition on the approval of said Code. 

HuoH S. JoHNSON, 

Adndnistrator fm" Industrial R ecovery. 

Approval recommended : 

GEO. L. BERRY, 

Division Ad1ninistratm·. 

wASHINGTON, D.C. 

February 17, 1934. 

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REPORT TO THE PRESIDENT 

The PRESIDE~T, 

The 1V hite House. 

SIR: This is a report of the hearing on the Code of Fair Competition for the Gum1ned Label and Embossed Seal Industry, conducted 

in 'V ashington on October 18, 1933, in accordance with the provisions 

of Title I of the National Industrial Recovery Act. 

HOURS AND WAGES 

This Code provides a 40-hour week for factory workers with a 

weekly tolerance of eight hours to be paid for as overtime. The 

usual exceptions are made in regard to non-productive employees. 

Office employees are limited to an aYerage of 40 hours per week 

over an eight week period. 

The minimum wage rate in the North for hourly paid employees is 

40¢ per hour for males and 35¢ per hour for females. In the South 

the minimum wage rate for hourly paid employees is 35¢ per hour 

for males and 30¢ per hour for females. Office employees will re- ceiYe a minin1um wage of $16.00 per week in the North and $14.00 

per week in the South. 

OPEN PRICE PLAN 

An open price plan of selling is provided, and selling below cost, 

except to meet competition, is prohibited. 

OTHER PROVISIONS 

Provision is made for furnishing the Administrator with such 

statistical data as he may require. 

ECONOMIC EFFECT OF THE CODE 

The Industry employed in 1929 approximately 1,300 persons. Although the number of plants increased by 15 between 1928 and 1932 

the number of workers in July 1933 had decreased to a probable 

1,200 who worked an average of 47 hours per week as of the week 

ending July 15. The effect of the Code will be to employ about 100 

additional persons. 

From figures submitted by 18 plants in the Industry approximately 

32% of the 1nale workers and 35% of the female workors received 

le s than the proposed wages during the week ending July 15, 1933. 

The total increase in the payrolls of the Industry as a result of the 

Code will be slightly more than 10%. 

FINDINGS 

The Deputy Administrator in his final report to me on said Code 

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

proceedings in this matter ; 

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I find that: 

(a) Said Code is well designed to promote the policies and 

purposes of Title I of the National Industrial Recovery Act, including removal of ob tructions 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 among the trade groups, 

by inducing and maintaining united action of labor and management 

under adequate goYenunental sanction and superYi on, by eliminating unfair competitive practices~ by promoting the fnlle t pos ·ible 

utilization of the present productive capacity of indu::;tries, by avoiding undue re triction of pro lu ·tion (except as may be temporarily 

required), by increasing the con umption of industrial and agricultural products through increasing purchasing pO\Yer, by reducing 

and relieving unemployment, by improYing tanclards of labor, and 

by otherwi. e rehabilitating indnstry. 

(b) Said Industry normally employs not mor than 50 000 

employees; and i · not cla sified by me a a major indu. try. 

(c) The Code a · approYed complies in all re pects with the pertinent provision of aiel Title of said Act, including without limitation 

Sub ·ection (a) of Section 3, ub. ection (a) of Section 7, and Subsection (b) of Se ·tion 10 thereof; and that the applicant a.·. ociation 

i an industrial a ·ociation truly representative of the aforesaid 

industry; and that said as. ·ociation imposes no inequitable restrictions on admi ·sion to membership therein. 

(d) The Code is not de ·ignecl to and will not permit monopolies 

or monopolistic practices. 

(e) The Cocle is not designed to and will not eliminate or oppre ·s 

s1nall enterprises and will not operate to eli criminate again t them. 

(f) Those engaged in other teps of the economic proce ·s have 

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

said Code. 

For the e reason · this Code has been approved. 

Respectfully, 

FEBRUARY 17' 1934. 

HuGH S. JoHNSON, 

Administ1·ator. 
CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION FOR THE GUMMED 

LABEL AND EMBOSSED SEAL INDUSTRY 

To effectuate the policies of Title I of the National Industrial 

Recovery Act, the following is hereby established as a Code of Fair 

Competition for the above named Industry and shall be binding on 

every member thereof. 

ARTICLE I-DEFINITIONS 

The following words are used in this Code with the meaning herein 

set forth : 

"Industry "-The manufacture and processing of gummed labels 

and embossed seals. 

"Member "-A natural person partnership, corporation, association, trust, trustee, trustee in bani\:ruptcy, receiver, or other fonn of 

enterprise, engaged in such Industry. 

"Act "-Title I of the National Industrial Recovery Act. 

"Administrator "-The Administrator for Industrial Recovery 

under Title I in the Act. 

ARTICLE II-ORGANIZATION AND ADMINISTRATION 

1. The members of the ExecutiYe Committee of the Gummed 

Label and Embossed Seal Association, together with such other person or person as the Administrator may designate, are hereby constituted the Code Authority of the Industry. The members of the 

Code Authority designated by the Ailininistrator shall haYe no vote 

and shall serve without compensation from the Industry. 

2. The said Association shall impose no inequitable restrictions 

on membership and shall file with the Adm_ini trator certified copies 

of any amendments of its By-Laws relating to eligibility or admission to member hip in said Association, or relating to the method 

of selection of the members of such Executive Committee, which said 

A sociation may hereafter adopt. 

3. The Administrator may at any time prescribe a different method 

for selecting the Industry members of the Code Authority, and 

thereafter such members shall be chosen in the manner so prescribed. 

4. The Code Authority is charged generally with the duty of 

administering this Code. If the Administrator hall determine that 

any action of the Code Authority, or any agency thereof, may be 

unfair or unjust or contrary to the public interest, the Admini trator may require that such action be su pended to afford an opportunity for investigation of the merits of ·uch action and further consideration by the Code Autho.rity or agency pending final action 

which shall not be effective unless the Ar1mini trator approves or 

unless he shall fail to disapprove after thirty days notice to him of 

intention to proceed with uch action in it~ original or mo(lified 

form. 

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5. The expenses of administering this Code shall be borne pro 

rata, in accordance with a formula to be adopted by the Code Authority, by all members of the Industry who accept the benefit of 

the services of the Code Authority or otherwise assent to this Code. 

6. The Code Authority shall have power to investigate alleged 

violations of this Code and acts or courses of conduct by any member 

which are or appear to be contrary to the policy of the Act or which 

tend or may tend to render ineffective this Code and to report the 

same with recommendations to the Administrator. 

7. The Code Authority is hereby constituted the agency to endeavor to effect, by arbitral proceedings or otherwi e, adjustments of 

contracts entered into by members of the Indu try, wher e the costs of 

executing such contracts are increased through the application of 

the provisions of the Act or of the Code. 

ARnCLE III-HouRs oF LABOR 

1. Employees in the Industry shall not be required or permitted 

to work hours 1n excess of the limits prescribed in the following 

schedule: 

SCHEDULE OF WORKING HOUR 

(a) Watchmen: Fifty-six (56) hours in any one week, but not 

more than six (6) days in any seven (7) day period. Or fifty-. ix 

(56) hours in any one week, but not more than eight ( 8) hours in 

any one day. 

(b) Chauffeurs, truckdrivers, and their helpets: One hundred 

eighty (180) hours in any period of four ( 4) con ecutive weeks, provided, however, that time worked in excess of nine (9) hours in 

any one day or forty-five ( 45) hours in any one week shall be paid 

for as not less than time and one-third. 

(c) Engineers, firemen, electricians, filter plant employees, electric and hydro-electric operators: One hundred sixty-eight (168) 

hours in any period of four ( 4) consecutive weeks, provided however, that time worked in excess of nine (9) hours in any one day 

or forty-five ( 45) hours in any one week shall be paid for as not 

less than time and one-third. 

(d) All other laborers, mechanical vvorkers or artisans employed 

jn any plant, mill or factory or on work connected with the operation of such plant, mill or factory: Eight (8) hours in any one day 

and forty ( 40) hours in any one week, provided, however, that these 

maximum limits ma.y be exceeded for any reason at any time provided that all time worked in excess of the maximums prescribed 

shall be paid for as not less than time and one-third, and provided, 

further, that no employee shall be required or permitted to work 

in excess of ten (10) hours in any one day or forty-eight (48) hours 

jn any one week. 

(e) Employees regularly engaged in a managerial or executive 

capacity and their personal secretaries, foremen and supervisors, 

receiving thirty-five ($35.00) dollars or more per week, and outside 

salesmen : No limitation. 

(f) All other employees: Forty-eight (48) hours in any one week 

but not to exceed three hundred twenty ( 320) hours in any period 

of eight (8) consecutive weeks. 
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2. No limitation contained in said schedule shall apply to em- ployees of any class when engaged in emergency repairs or emergency maintenance \\Ork occa ioned by breakdowns or involving 

protection of life or property, provided, however, that all time 

worked in exce s of the limitations prescribed in said schedule shall 

be paid for as not less than tin1e and one-third. 

3. No employer shall knowingly permit any employee to work for 

any time which, when totaled with that already performed with 

another employer or employers in this Industry, exceeds the maximum 

permitted herein. 

ARTICLE IV-WAGES 

1. The minimum rate of wage of any laborer, mechanical worker 

or artisan employed in any plant, mill or factory or on work connected with the operation of any such plant, mill or factory shall 

be as follows : 

(a) In the Northern zone, which shall consist of all the territory 

of the United States except the States named in sub-division (b) 

hereof. ~Tale labor 40 cents per hour. 

F emale labor, 35 cents per hour. 

(b) In the Southern zone, which shall consist of the States of 

Virginia, Tenne see, North Carolina, South Carolina Georgia, 

Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas and Texas. 

Male labor, 35 cents per hour. 

Female labor, 30 cents per hour. 

2. The minimum rates of wages for all other mnployees shall be 

as follows: 

(a) In the Northern zone, as defined in Section 1 hereof, $16.00 

per week. 

(b) In the Southern zone, as defined in said Section, $14.00 per 

week. 

(c) Part-time employees covered by the provisions of this Section 

shall be paid at the rate of not less than 40¢ per hour in the North 

and 35¢ per hour in the South. 

3. This Article establishes a minimmn rate of pay which shall 

apply irrespective of whether an e1nployee is actually compensated 

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

4. Female employees performing substantially the same work 

as male employees, shall receive the same rate of pay as male employees. The Code Authority shall within ninety (90) days after 

the effective date of this Code file with the Administrator a description of all occupations in the Industry in which both men and 

women are employed. 

5. The wage rates of all employees receiving more than the Ininimum rates herein prescribed shall be reviewed and such adjustments, 

if any, made therein as are equitable in the light of all the circumstances, and within sixty (60) days after the effecti' e date hereof, 

the Code Authority shall report to the Adm.inistrator the action 

taken by all members of the Industry under this Section. 

6. Office boys and girls under 18 years of age, to the extent of no 

more than 5% of the total nmnber of employees described in Section 

2 hereof, may be employed at a wage of not less than 80% of the 
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minimum prescribed by said Section, provided that at least one such 

office boy or girl 1nay be employed by each member. 

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

physical or mental handicap n1ay be employed on light work at a 

wage of not less than 80% of the minimum prescribed by this Code, 

provided the State Authority or other agency designated by the 

United States Department of Labor shall have issued a certificate 

authorizing his employment on such basis. Each n1ember shall file 

with the Code Authority a list of all such persons employed by hin1. 

ARTICLE V-GENERAL LABOR PROVISIONS 

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

the Industry. No person under eighteen (18) years of age shall be 

employed at operations or occupations which are hazardous in nature 

or dangerous to health. The Code Authority shall submit to the 

Administrator within sixty (60) 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 signed by the 

authority in such State e1npowered to issue employment or age certificates or permits, showing that the employee is of the required age. 

2. 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 employer of 

labor, or their agents, in the designation of such representative or 

in self-organjzation or in other concerted activities for the purpose. 

of collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection. No employee and no one seeking employment shall be required as a condition of employment to join any ompany union or to refrain from 

joining, organizing, or assisting a labor organization of his own 

choosing. Employers shall comply with the Inaximum hours of 

labor, minimum rates of pay, and other conditions of employment, approved or prescribed by the Pr sident. 

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. 

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 provi ions of the Act or o£ this Code. 

5. All employers shall post copies of Articles III, IV and V of this 

Code in conspi uous places accessible to employees. 

6. Every employer shall make reasonable provisions for the sa£ety 

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

their employment. Standards for safety and health shall be submitted by the Code Authority to the Administrator within six ( 6) 

months alter the effective date of this Code. 

7. The Code Authority shall make a study of conditions in the 

Indu. try to determine the £easibility of the adoption of a shorter 

working week and shall, within three (3) 1nonths after the effective 

date of this·Code, make a report o£ its findings to the Administrator. 
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The Code Authority shall also submit to the Administrator within ·ix ( 6) month after the effective date of this Code, a plan for the 

stabilization and regularization of employment. 

8. The manufacture or partial m.anufacture of any product o£ 

the Indn. try in homes shall be prohibited, provided however that 

member of the II ~dustry who are now employing home workers 

shall have untill\1ay 1, 1934, to adjust their operations. 

ARTICLE VI-AccouNTING AND SELLING 

1. The Code Authority shall, as soon as practicable, formulate a 

standard method of accounting and costing for the indu try and 

submit the same to the Administrator. 'Vhen it shall have been 

approved by the Administrator, every member shall use an accounting and costing system which conforms to the pr1nciples of, and is 

nt least a. detailed and complete as, such standard method. 

2. The Code Authority may from time to time determine that 

an open price plan of selling uch product or products of the Indu try as it shall specify shall be put into effect on such date as it 

shall fix. Notice of such determination shall be announced to all:.> 

known member of the Industry who manufacture such products 

not les. than thirty ( 30) day prior to the date so fixed. 

3. At lea -t ten days prior to such date, every such member shall 

file with the Code Authority a schedule of prices and terms of sale 

for all such products or, in the alternative, shall be deemed to have 

filed a schedule conforming in respect to price and terms of sale 

with the schedule at any time on file which states the lowest price 

and the mo t favorable terms. 

4. All such schedules shall be in such form as the Code Authority 

shall pre cribe and shall contain all information necessary to permit 

any interested per on to determine the exact net price per unit after 

all discounts or other deductions have been made, whether pertaining to a single order, a comn1itment for future delivery, or a contract. All such original schedules shall become effective on the date 

fixed by the Code Authority as provided in Section 2 hereof. 

5. A revi ·eel sch€clule or schedules, or a new schedule or schedules, 

or a notice of withdrawal of a schedule previously filed, may be 

filed by a member with the Code Authority at any time, provided, 

however, that any member who withdraws a schedule without substituting a new schedule therefor shall be deem€d to have filed a 

schedule conforming in respect to price and terms of sale with the 

schedule at any time thereafter on file which states the low€st price 

and the most favorable terms. Any schedule or notice filed hereunder shall become effective five days after th€ date of filing, provided, however, that an increased price may become effective at such 

earlier date as the member filing the same shall fix. 

6. The Code Authority shall promptly supply all members of the 

Industry who manufacture any particular product with copies of al] 

schedules, revised schedules, and notices of withdrawal, which pertain to such product. Imm€diately upon receipt of information 

relative to the withdrawal of a price for any product; any member 

may file notice of withdrawal of his own price for the same product 

effective as of the same date as the notice of withdrawal of such 
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other member. Immediately on receipt of information that a 

schedule then on file has been revised, or that a new schedule has 

been filed, any member may file a revised schedule conforming as to 

price and terms to the schedule of such other member, and e:ffectiYe 

on the same date, or he may notify the Code Authority that he 

adopts as his own the schedule of such other Ineinber. In the latter 

event, he shall be deemed to have filed a revised schedule conforming 

to the revised schedule of such other member. 

7. No such schedule of prices and terms of sale filed by any member, 

in effect at any time, shall be such as to permit the sale of any product 

at less than the cost thereof to such member determined in the 

manner provided in Section 11 hereof, provided however, that any 

1nember may by notice to the Code Authority adopt a his own a 

lower price filed by another designated member. Such adoption 

shall become automatically void upon the withdra\val or revision 

upward of the price adopted. 

8. No member who shall have filed a price, or adopted as his own, 

a price filed by another member for any product of the Industry, 

shall sell such product for less than such price or upon terms or 

'onditions more favorable than stated in such price chedule. No 

men1ber, who shall have failed to file a price for any product for 

which the open price plan is in effect, shall sell such product at a 

lower price or on terms more favorable than the lowest price and 

1nost favorable terms stated in any price schedule for such product 

then on file. 

9. The Code Authority shall furnish at cost to any non-member 

requesting them, copies of any price schedules which haYe been filed 

with it. Such price schedules shall be made available to non-members at the same time that they are sent to members. 1 

10. No member shall sell any product of the Industry for which 

no open price plan is in effect at less than the cost thereof to such 

member, determined as provided in Section 11 hereof, except to meet 

the price of a competitor whose price does not violate such Section. 

11. Cost, for the purposes of this Article, shall be determined pursuant to the method of accounting and costing prescribed as provided in Section 1 hereof as soon as such method is adopted and 

approved, and theretofore pursuant to the method employed by such 

member subject to such preliminary rules as the Code Authority shall 

from time to time prescribe with the approval of the Administrator. 

12. For the purpose of determining whether Sections 7 and 10 

hereof have been complied with, every member shall upon the request 

of the Code Authority furnish a designated agency of the Code 

Authority in r espect to clo eel transactions only, with complete 

information in regard to any quotation, order, contract, or sale of 

any product of the Industry, including information as to specifications, quantities, price, conditions of storage, transportation or delivery, terms of billing, cash or trade discounts allowed and other 

pertinent facts relating to such quotation, contract or sale. 

13. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to prevent the 

disposition of distress merchandise required to be sold to liquidate 

a defunct or insolvent business or of discontinued lines, damaged 

1 See paragraph 2 of order approving this Code. 
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goods or second. in such manner, at such price and on such terms 

and conditions as the Code Authority and the Administrator may 

npproYe. 

14. Nothing herein contained shall be con trued to prevent the 

fulfillment of a bona fide contract exi ting on the effective date of 

this Code. 

ARTICLE VII-REPORT AND STATISTICS 

1. Each member shall prepare and file \\ith an impartial agent 

de. ignated by the Code Authority at such times and in such manner 

a it may pre cribe, such tatistics, data and information relating to 

plant capacity, volume of production, Yolume of sales in lmits and 

dollar , orders received unfilled order , stock on hand, inventory 

both raw and fini heel, numb r of employees wage rate employee 

earnings hour of \Tork and other matter , as the Code Authority 

or the Admini trator may from time to time require. Any or all 

information o fnrni heel by any member shall be subject to checking 

for the purpose of verification by an examination of the books, accounts and record · of such member by any disinterested accountant 

or accountants or other qualified per on or per ons designated by the 

Code Authority. 

2. Except as otherwi e pro' ided in the Act or in this Code, all 

stati tics, data and information filed or required in accordance with 

the provision of thi Code shall be confidential and the statistics, 

data and information of one member shall not be revealed to another 

member. No such lata or information .shall be published except in 

combination with other similar lata and in such a manner as to a"Void 

the disclosure of confidential information. The Code Authority 

shall arrange in such manner as it may determine for the current 

publication of Industry stati tics to members. 

3. The Code Authority shall make such reports to the Administrator a he may from time to time require. 

4. In addition to informatim1 required to be submitted to the Code 

Authority there shall be furnished to Government Agencies such 

f.:tatistical information as the Administrator may deem neces ary 

for the purposes recited in Section 3 (a) of the Act. Nothing contained in this Code shall relieve any member of any existing obligations to furnish reports to any Government Agency. 

ARTICLE VIII-~10:\ OPOLIES 

1. No pronswn of this Code shall be so applied as to permit 

monopolies or monopolistic practices, or to eliminate oppre , or 

discriminate against small enterprises. 

ARTICLE IX-RECOl\IMENDA TIONS 

1. The Code Authority may from time to time, present to the 

Administrator recommendations based on conditions in the Indu. try 

whi ·h will tend to effectuate the operation of thi Code and the 

policy of the Act and in particular along the following lines: 

(a) For the establi hment of additional rules of Fair Trade Practices for the Indn try and for the modification of its Trade Cu toms, 

and the enforcement thereof. 
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(b) For the establishment of plans to equalize production with 

demand, so that the interests of the Industry and the public may be 

properly served. 

(c) For dealing with any other inequality that may arise to 

endanger the stability of the Industry and of production and 

employment. 

(d) For an increase or decreas in the number of Industry members of the Code Authority and/or for a change in the method of 

choosing such members. 

2. For the purpose of assisting the Code Authoritie of the Paper 

Manufacturing ancljor Converting Industries in the adjustment of 

all labor disputes and labor complaints ari ·ing within sunh Industries, the Code Authority shall consider the advisability of creating 

a Joint Industrial Relations Board for such Industries and shall 

report its recommendations to the Administrator. 

3. Recommendations made pursuant to Sectio 1:-o 1 and 2 hereof 

when approved by the Administrator shall haY the ame f rce and 

effect as other provisions of this Code. 

ARTICLE X-TRADE PRACTICES 

1. The following are hereby cmrtituted Trade Practices for the 

Industry and failure to comply with the provi ion thereof shall be 

a violation of this Code. 

(a) :.Members of the Industry shall not practice deception in 

regard to that which is sold or its selling price by false or misleading 

description, statement, record, or undisclosed consideration. 

(b) ~fember · shall refrain from dumping, extension of stated 

credit and secret rebates. 

(c) :Members shall not willfully injure by falsely defaming a competitor' goods, credit, or ability to perform hi· contracts. 

(d) :Members shall not willfully induca or attempt to induce the 

breach of a competitor's contract. 

(e) No member shall give, permit to be given, or directly offer to 

give, anything of value for the purpose of influencing or rewarding 

the action of any employee, agent or repre entative of another in 

relation to the business of the employer of such employee, the principal of such :.w·ent or the represented party, without the knowledge of such employer, principal or party. The foregoing provisions shall not be construed to prohibit free and general distribution of articles commonly used for advertising except so far as such 

article are actually u eel for commercial bribery as herein defined. 

(f) No member of the Industry shall ship goods on consignment, 

except under circumstances to be defined by the Code Authority 

where peculiar circum tances of the Industry require the practice. 

ARTICLE XI-GENERAL PROVISIONS 

1. If any member is also a member of another industry, the provisions of this Code shall apply to and affect only that part of his 

business which is included in this Indu try. 

2. Any work or process incidental to and carried on by a member 

at his plant as a part of the manufacture of any product of the 

Industry, shall be regarded as a part of this Industry. 
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3. Such of the provision of this Code as are not required to be 

included therein by the Act, may, with the approval of the Administrator, be modified and eliminated as changes in circumstance or 

experience may indicate. 

4. This Code and all the provisions thereof are expressly made 

subject to the right of the Pre ·ident, in accordance with the provision of Section 10 (b) of the Act, from time to time to cancel 

or modify any order, approval, license rule or regulation, ~ssued 

nncler Title I of said Act, and specifically, but without limitation, 

to the right of the President to cancel or modify his approval of 

thi. Code or any conditions impo eel by him upon his approval 

thereof. 

5. Thi. Code shall become effective on the second ~1onday after 

the elate upon which it shall be approved by the President of the 

United States. 

Appro,·ed Code No. 294. 

Hegistry Ko. -:10-!-09. 

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