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NATIONAL RECOVERY ADMINISTRATION 

PROPOSED CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

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PHOTO-LITHOGRAPHING 

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AS SUBMITTED lfN SEPTEMBER 6, 1933 

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The Code for the Photo-Lithographing 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 

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UNITED STATES 

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 

WASHINGTON : 1933 

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

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SUBMITTED BY 

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF PHOTO-LITHOGRAPHERS 

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CODE UNDER THE INDUSTRIAL RECOVERY ACT OF THE 

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF PHOTO-LITHOGRAPHERS 

COMPOSED OF CONCERNS OPERATING PHOTO-LITHOGRAPHING PLANTS . 

Hereinafter wherever used in this Code, the term : 

1. Act-shall mean" Industrial Recovery Act." 

2. Association-shall mean " National Association of PhotoLithographers." , 

3. Board-shall mean " Board of Directors of the National Association of Photo-Lithographers." 

4. Code-shall mean "Code of the Photo-Lithographing industry." 

5.. Industry-shall mean "All plants engaged in whole or in part 

in photo-lithographing." 

ARTICLE I-PURPOSE 

This Code is set up by concerns engaged in the operation of PhotoLithographing plants, who are members of the National Association of Photo-Lithographers, unincorporated, for the purpose of 

effectuating within the Photo-Lithographing Industry, the policy 

of title I and cooperating in every way with the intent and purpose 

of the Industrial Recovery Act, signed the 16th. day of June 1933, 

and the regulations promulgated thereunder. It is not designed 

to promote monopolies or eliminate or oppress small enterprises or 

to discriminate against them. 

ARTICLE ll-P ARTICIP ATION 

Participation in the administration of this Code or in any subsequent revision or addititons to this Code shall be extended to any 

person, partnership, association, and/ or corporation, engaged in the 

operation of any plant of which the product is totally or in part that 

of Photo-Lithography, subscribing to this Code and willing to accept 

his or its share of the cost and responsibility, as well as the benefit 

of such participation, by becoming a member of the Association. 

Any concern engaged in the operation of a Photo-Lithographing 

plant, now in existence or hereafter engaging in the operation of 

such a plant, shall be eligibile to membership in the Association 

on the same basis as the present membership, and as set forth in the 

Constitution and Bylaws of the Association, submitted herewith. 

The Autonomy of present local and regional Photo-Lithographing 

associations, groups, or any new associations or groups desiring to 

affiliate with this association is recognized. 

ARTICLE Ill-LABOR CoDE 

A. (1) Employees in the Industry shall have the right to organize 

and bargain collectively through representatives of their own choos9660-33 (1) 
ing, and hall b free from the interferenc re traint, or coercion of 

employ r of labor r their aa nt in the d ignation of u h repre en_tati or in If-organization or in oth r c ncertecl acti iti 

for the purpose of oll c i e bargaining or o h r mutual ai 1 r 

protection · (2) o mploy e an 1 no ones eking mploym nt shall b r quir cl 

a a condition of emplo3 ment to join any company union or to 

refrain from joinin or organizing or assisting a labor organizati n 

of his own choosing ; and 

(3) Employers shall comply with the maximum hour of labor, minimum rates of pay, an l other conditions of mploym nt approved 

or pre cribed by the Pre ident of the United ~tate.-. 

B. Attached h reto and made a part hereof an l marked Schedule 

A is the de ignat d maximum hours of labor, and the designated 

minimum wabe per hour to be paid in the Industry and the exception thereto which are to be declared in effect as hereinafter 

provided. . . I t i clearly understood that the foregoing does not impair in 

any particular con titutional rights of the emr loyee and employer 

to bargain individually or collectively as may be mutually satisfactory to them and nothing in this Code will prevent the selection, 

retention, or advancement of any employee on the basis of his individual merits without regard to his affiliation or nonaffiliation with 

any labor or employee organization. 

D. The Industry shall abide by all Federal, State, and Municipal 

laws and ordinances affecting the health and safety of workers in 

the locality where they are employed, and shall not employ any minor 

under the age of 16 years. E. The Industry shall not use any subterfuge to frustrate the spirit 

and intent of this Code which is, among other things, to increa e 

mployment by a universal covenant, to remove obstructions to comm rce, and to shorten hours and to raise wages for the shorter week 

to a livjng basis. 
HED LEA 

MAXH.IUM HOURS PE:R, WEEK, -! 0 

.. ~ o member of the Indu try hall cau ·e or permit any fact ry, office, or 

branch employee to work mor than an average of 40 hour.· per week in any 

week ' period. 

The maximum hour :fixed in the aboYe paragraph hall not apply to highly 

kill d technician , where re triction of hour would unavoidably r edure production. in such ~p cial case not less than time and third time shall be paid 

for hour ~ worked in exce of th maximum. Nor shall the maximum hours 

apply in the case of executives, sup~rvisor , and their immediate assLtants, 

who perform no mechanical operations, outside sale men, watchmen, r epairmen. and ervice men. 

MINIMUM RATE PER HOUR FOR FACTORY• EMPLOYEES, $.-!0 

The minimum rate of pay for any tactory or mechanical worker or artisan 

hall be not less than .40 per hour, unless the hourly rate for the same clas~ 

of work on July 15, 1929, was less than .40 per hour, in which latter ca~ 

not to pay le s than the hourly rate on July 15, 1929, and in no event less 

than .30 per hour. It is agreed that this paragraph establishes a guaranteed 

minimum rate of pay regardless of whether the employee is compensated on 

the ba i of a time rate or on a piecework performance. 

There hall be prepared and compiled by the Board, a schedule of the 

minimum rates per hour paid to all factory workers, mechanical workers, and 

artisans in accordance with the standard classification of the various types 

of labor employed in the Industry, to be submitted to the Pre ident of the 

United States for approval not later than thirty days after the approval of this 

Code by the Pre ident of the United States. 

MI 'IMlll\I RATES PER. WEEK FOR ACCOUNTING, C1LERIOAL, OFFICE, SEIRVIC'ID, AND SALIDS 

EMPLOYEffiJS 

The minimum rate of pay for accounting, clerical, office, ervice, or sales 

employee shall be not l ss than $15.00 per week in any city of over 500,000 

population, or in the immediate trade area of such city; nor le s than $14.50 

per week in any city of between 250,000 and 500,000 population, or in the immediate trade area of such city; nor less than $14.00 per week in any city of 

between 2,500 and 250,000 population, or in the immediate trade area of such 

city; and in towns of les than 2,500 population to increase all wages by not 

le s than 20 percent, provided that this shall not require wao-es in excess of 

$12.00 per week. 

(3) 
ARTICLE IV-RuLES OF UNFAIR CoMPETITION 

Attached hereto and made a part hereof marked Schedule B are 

the rules having to do with unfair competition in this Industry. 

These rules are subject to additions, modifications, or enlargement 

by the Board within the terms of the Act, and the regulations promulgated thereunder. 

(4) 
SCHEDULE B 

RULES OF UNFAIR COMPETITION 

The giving or accepting directly, or indirectly, of any secret rebates, special 

rebates, secret refunds, and/or allowance , jn connection with the production 

and sale of Photo-Lithography, is prohibited. 

The giving, quoting, or making of any prices to brokers, agents, distributors, 

or any other intermedjate type of selling agency, lower than the prices included 

in the minimum price schedule filed with the Secretary, i prohibited. 

(5) 
ARTI LE V-An nNr Tn !\Tin OF THE DE 

The B ar l i authorized and empo·wer d t male th n ces~ ar. 

rule and reo·ulations to admini t r the provisions of thi Code 

to secure a lherence thereto, to hear and a ljust complaints and 

otherwi e to carry out the puq o of the Act and the regula ion. 

thereunder. 

The ecretary shall receive com.plaint of any violation of thi. 

Code and forthwith make a full and omplcte inve tigation of .·u ·h 

complaint and to the best of his ability adju t and ettl b t'i n 

t.he intere ted I artie. any and all matter in controver. y. lie . hall 

make a report of all adjustment and settlements to the Board for 

its approval. 

Wherever under any provi ion of this Code, the Board is authorized or required to act in a.ny matter whatsoever, unanim.ous· d ci-

'sion of the Board or of the members of sa.id B ard pre e.n at any 

meeting held after due notice (not les than a quorum), . hall b 

final and conclusive, unles after notice of :mch deci ·ion any m >mber or members of the Inuustry feeling ao·grieved thereb} shall, 

within ten days, but not thereafter, notify the A sociation of it or 

their desire to arbitrate, in which event the matter in controver y 

sl all then be ubmitted to arbitration according to the Standard Arbitration Clause of the State of New York. Resort to arbitration hall 

be held to be in addition to and not in sub titution of any other or 

further riD"hts which the aggrieved parties may have under the Act 

and the Regulations promulgated thereunder. 

ARTICLE VI-S·r TI TICAL 

With a Yiew to keeping the Pre ident of the Uniteu State and 

the members of the Inclu try .informed a to the ob rvanc or n nob ervance f this Code and as to wheth r the Indu try is takin 

appropriate step· to effectuate the declared ,policy of the Act, a h 

member of the Industry shall file in th Secretary offic uch lul. r 

certified statistical reports at such time, in such form, and for su h 

periods as may be required by the President of the United tat or 

the Board. Any uch informati n fil d by the individual m mb r 

of the Association shall be confi 1 ntial in the Seer tar ffic xcept as such information becomes an unidentified part of a 0' neral 

compilation or report by the Secretary or in the event the Pr sident of the United States shall require the publication th r of, or 

the information evidences a breach of the Code, in which e nt the 

matter shall be brought to th attention of the r porting m mber 

and referred to the Board for its action. 

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ART! LE VII-OPEN PRTCE DATA 

Each member of the Industry shall, within ten day after the 

effective date of the Code, file with the Secretary a minimum price 

chedule for all its Photo-Lithographing products and/or operations as required by the Board, including discounts, allowances, 

terms, and all conditions of sale and frmn and after expiration of 

uch ten days such member shall at all 6mes maintain on file with 

the Secretary such minimum price schedule for all its Photo-Lithographing products and/or operations, and shall not sell below and 

shall not make any change in uch price schedule, except as herein 

provided. 

The date of filing shall be the effective date of the first price 

schedule. Any member of the Industry desiring to change such 

price schedule shall file a revised price schedule with the Secretary, 

which shall bcome effective not less than ten days after and exclusive 

of the date of filing thereof (Sundays and holidays excluded). All 

price schedules so filed shall be o.pen to inspection by all members 

of the Industry at all times. 

All prices set out in the minimum price schedule filed with the 

Secretary shall be based upon and justified by a standard cost finding ystem approved by the members of the Association. 

ARTICLE VIII-CHANGES rN CoDE 

The provisions of this Code may be changed at any time by the 

members of this Association, in a meeting called and assembled in 

accordance with the Constitution and By-Laws of the Association; or 

upon the written request of ten members of the Industry; provided the changes made are within the purview of the Act, and the 

regulations promulgated thereunder, and are approved by the President of the United States. 

ARTICLE IX-LA w OF INDUSTRY 

The foregoing Code prepared and filed under the Act shall become 

the law of the Industry fifteen days after approval by the President 

of the United States. On and aft~r the effective date, all members 

of the Industry shall operate under the provisions of this Code. 

0 

GEo. E. LoDER, 

President. 

Lours B. :MoNTFORT, 

Secretary. 
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