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N TIONAL RE OVERY ADMINISTRATION 

CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

WOODEN INSULATOR PIN AND 

BRACKET MANUFACTURING 

INDUSTRY 

AS APPROVED ON MARCH 16, 1934 

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Approved ode No. 338 

CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

WOODEN INSULATOR PIN AND BRACKET 

MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY 

As Approved on March 16, 1934 

ORDER 

PPROYL To ConE OF F AIR Co:t\fPETITION FOR THE W oonE~ I NSULA TOR 

PrN AND BRACKET MANUFACTURING INn STRY 

An application having been duly made fursuant to and in full 

compliance with the provisions of Title I o the National Industrial 

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

of Fair Competition for the 'Vooden Insulator Pin and Bracket 

Manufacturing 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: 

NOW, THEREFORE, on behalf of the Pre ·ident of the United 

tates, I Hugh S. Johnson, Administrator for Industrial Recovery, 

pur uant to authority vested in me by Executive Orders of the 

Pre ident, including Executive Order No. 6543-A dated December 30, 1933, and otherwise i do hereby incorporate by reference said 

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

with the pertinent provisions and will promote the policy and 

purposes of said Title of said Act; and do hereby order that 

said Code of Fair ompetition be and it is here y approved. 

HUGH . JOHNSON, 

Ad1ninist1·ator for l ndu trial Rec01Jery. 

pproval recomn1end d: 

A. R. GLANCY. 

W ru.-oToN, D.C., 

March 16, 1931,.. 

46827" ----4~5-89----84 (115) 
REPORT TO THE PRESIDENT 

The PRESIDENT, 

The White House. 

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

Wooden Insulator Pin and Bracket Manufacturing Industry the 

hearing being conducted in Washington, D.C., on January 30, 1934, 

in accordance with the provisions of the National Industrial Recovery Act. 

PROYISION S ON HO"CRS AND WAGES 

The maximmn hours provided in this Code for employees are 

forty (40) hours per week and eight (8) hours per day. The work 

week is limited to five and one-half ( 51j2 ) days. Inasmuch as the 

product of this Industry is standardized, it can be manufactured for 

stock and therefore no tolerance above the normal week is allowed 

for peak periods. 

Employees engaged in emergency maintenance and emergency repair work are excepted from hourly limitation under prescribed 

conditions and are to receive one and one-third overtime rate of pay. 

Shipping clerks, firemen, and engineers whose normal duties in the 

factory require a longer period each day than required of other 

operatives are granted a tolerance of one hour per day and five hours 

per week. Watchmen may work eighty-four hours in a two weeks' 

period but not more than forty-eight hours in any one week. Exemption from hourly limitations is granted to managerial and 

executive employees regularly receiving $35.00 or more per week. 

The minimum wage provided in this Code for factory employees 

is forty cents per hour with no exceptions other than for employees 

of limited capacity, who may be paid less than the minimum rate 

under prescribed conditions. It is provided that clerical employees 

shall not receive less than fifteen (15) dollars per week. Under 

this Code no present wage rates shall be reduced and equitable 

adjustment of wages in exce s of the minimum shall be made. 

CHILD LABOR 

The minimum age provided in this Code is 16 years but in hazardous occupations this age limit i increased to 18 years. 

ECONOl\IIC EFFECT OF THE CODE 

The sales of this Indu try have decreased nearly ninety per cent 

since 1929 but there are signs of recovery. Sales were twice as large 

during the second half of 1933 a they were during the first half. 

The product of this Industry i u ed entirely for electrical utility 

construction and will be re ponsi Ye to any expansion in that field. 

Only one-fourth of the e. timatecl 250 employ es engaged in this 

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mrl y 1. Th maximum hours 

mrl ym ll ar pr xim tely elev n 

n if th an man h ur ar 11:1i1 tain d. Th number 

of n rl · wa in r a d ab ut ft ) r nt wh n some f 

th m mb r of th In lu tr ign d th Pr id nt R mpl yment 

oT m nt. h ul th 1 man l f r thi pr duct arrain equal that 

f 19- , mpl m nt in th Indu tr ill be incr a ed by n arly 

fort '-fiT" ( 4 ) p r ent ov r that of 19 9 a the a erage work w ~{ 

in thL t ar wa fif y- ight (- ) hour as compared w1th the maximum of f rty ( 40) hours pr rib by the ode. 

Th minimum t ag of forty ( 40) nts per hour e tabli hed by 

thi ode i ansi erably higher than h been paid by this Indus ry 

in th pa t. Appr ximately nin ty (90) per cent of the mployees 

mu t haYe their wao-e rates increa ed in order to receive the minimum 

1 ro id d in the Code. This will mean an increa e of nearly forty 

(40) p r cent o er the real wages of October, 1933, and ninety (90) 

per cent over those of June, 1933, for the employees now engaged in 

this Indu tr . This i~crea e eems relatively large because a number of th mployees have been receiving as low as twelve and onehalf (12Y2) cents per hour. :Many of the employees affected perform 

a killed operation even though receiving this very low wage rate. 

orne of the members of this Industry who have been payino- the 

lower wages and who have not cooperated by signing the President 

Re mployment Agreement have protested the proposed wage as too 

high. The a senting group judged to be truly representative by the 

Legal Divi ion ha ignified that the prescribed wage is sati factory 

· and de irabl in order to accompli h the increased purcha ing power 

purpo d by the Act. The necessary increase in the sale price of 

thi product incident to this increased wage rate will be easily absorbed ina much as the labor cost in the production of wooden insulator pin and brackets represents an infinite imal portion of the co t 

of the on tru tion work in which this product i used and there i , 

in the opinion of the Indu try, no practicable sub titute. 

FINDINGS 
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and relieving unemployment, by improving standards of labor, and 

by otherwise rehabilitating industry. 

{b) Said industry normally employs not more than 50,000 employees; and is not classified by me as a major industry. 

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

Subsection (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 admission to membership therein. 

(d) The Code is not designed to and wjll not . permit monopolies 

or monopolistic practices. 

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

small enterprises and will not operate to discriminate against them. 

(f) Those engaged in other steps of the ecoJ!omic process have 

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

Code. 

· For these reasons, therefore, this Code has· been approved. 

Respectful! y, 

MARCH 16, 1934. 

HuoH S. JoHNSON, 

Administrator. 
IR CO !PETITION FOR THE WOO EN 

PIN A D BRA KET MANUFACT RI G 

ARTICLE I-P RPO ES 

T th polici.e of Title I of theN ational Indu trial Re ov ry 

Act th following provi ions are e tablished a a ode of Fair 

om petition for th Wooden In ulator Pin and Bracket Manufacturing In u try and shall be binding upon every member thereof. 

ARTICLE II-DEFINITION 

1. The term ' Indu try ' as used herein includes the manufacture 

andj or ale by manufacturers of wooden insulator pins and brack ts 

u eel on overhead transmis ion lines and such related bran hes or 

ubdivisions as may from time to time be included under the provi ions of this od , after such notice and hearing as may be 

pre cribed. 

2. The term ' Employee ' as used herein includes any and all 

person encraged in the Indu try, however compen ated except a 

member of the Industry. 

3. The term ' :Member of the Indu try" include , but without 

limitation, any individual, partner hip, as ociation, or corporation 

or other form of enterprise -ngaged in the Industry either as an 

empl yer or on his or it own behalf. 

4. The rm "As ociation" as u ed h rein means the N a tiona! 

"'\Vood In ulator Pin and Bracket Manufacturer A sociation. 

5. The t nns 'Act ' an 1 Admini trator' as u d herein hall 

mean r pectively Title I of the National Indu trial Recovery Act, 

and the dmini trat r for Indu trial Recovery. 

RTICLE III-HoUR 

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3. No office, accounting, or clerical employee shall be permitted to 

work in excess of forty ( 40) hours in any one week or eight ( 8) 

hours in any twenty-four (24) hour period. 

4. The maximum hours fixed in the foregoing section shall not 

apply to any employee on emergency maintenance or emergency repair work involving protection of life or property who shall be. paid 

at least one and one third (11j3 ) times his normal rate for all hours 

worked in excess of eight (8) hours in any one day or forty (40) 

hours in any one week. 

5. No employer shall knowingly engage any employee for any 

ti1ne which when totaled with that already performed with another 

employer or employers exceeds the maximum hereinabove provided. 

6. Members of the Industry who personally engage in productive 

operations in their plants shall not work at such operations in excess 

of the maximum number of hours prescribed for employees in this 

Article. 

ARTICLE IV-WAGES 

1. No employee shall be paid at less than the rate of forty ( 40) 

cents per hour except as hereinafter otherwise provided. 

2. An employer shall make payn1ent of all wages due in lawful 

currency or by negotiable check therefor payable on demand. All 

wage agreements shall provide for the payment of wages at the end 

of each work week. All wages shall be exempt from any payments 

for pensions, insurance, and other charges and/or deductions by the 

employer not required by law, which are not requested by the employee. No employer shall directly or indirectly accept or permit to 

be accepted any rebates on wages nor give anything of value or 

extend favors to any person for the purpose of influencing rates of 

wages or the working conditions of employees. 

3. Accounting, clerical, or office employees shall not be paid less 

than the rate of $15.00 per week. 

4. This Article establishes minimum rates of pay, regardless of 

whether an employee is compensated on a time-rate, piecework or 

other basis. 

5. Female employees perfonning substantially the same work as 

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

6. Employers shall not reduce the rates of wages for employees 

whose rates are now in excess of the minimum rate of wages herein 

provided (notwithstanding that the number of hours worked in such 

employment may be hereby decreased) and where in any such case 

an employer has not increased the rates of wages for such employees 

prior to the effective date of this Code by an equitable readjustment 

of all wa o·e rates such employer shall readjust all such wage rates. 

This provision shall be interpreted in the same manner that Paragraph 7 of the President's Reemployment Agreement has been interpreted by the Administrator in Interpretations Nos. 1 and 20. All 

adjustments shall be reported to the Code Authority and the Administrator within thirty ( 30) days after the effective date of the Code. 

7. A person whose earning capacity is limited ~cause of age, 

physical or mental handicap, or other infirmity, may be employed 

on light work at a wage below the minimum established by this Code, 

if the employer obtain from the state authority, designated by the 
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th r than maint nan e or sup r i ory men, or 

hall not b r uir d, a a 

to li e in quar er r nt l from the 

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full copies of this Code in conspicuous places accessible to his 

employees. 

7. E ach employer shall make reasonable provision for the health 

and safety 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 

months after the effective date of this Code. 

ARTICLE VI-AoML -rs TRATION 

To effectuate further the policies of the Act a Code Authority is 

hereby constituted to cooperate with the Administration in the 

administration of this Code. 

1. Organization and constitution of Code Authority. 

(a) The Code Authority shall consist of four (4) individuals or 

such other number as may be approved from time to time by the 

Administrator, to be selected as hereinafter set forth. The Administrator, in his discretion, may appoint from one to three additional 

members without vote to represent the administration or such groups 

or interests as he may designate. Members appointed by the Administrator, if more than one 1s appointed, shall serve for terms of from 

six months to one year provided, however, that the terms of such 

member or members shall not expire at the same time. Such members shall be given notice of and may attend all meetings of the 

Code Authority. 

(b) Within ten days after the approval of this Code by the Administrator, the members of the Association shall select three of their 

own number to serve as members of the Code Authority. Each 

member of the Association shall be entitled to one vote in person, 

by letter, or by proxy. The secretary of the Association, not later 

than ten days after the approval of this Code, shall notify the members of the Industry who are nonmembers of the Association, if any 

such there be, that on a specific date not later than twenty days after 

such notice shall have been given the members of the Industry who 

are nonmembers of the Association will select one of their number 

to serve as a member of the Code Authority. Notice of such election 

shall specify that such nonmember may be elected by the nonmembers of the Association either present, or by proxy, or by letter 

ballot. Should such method fail to elect a representati Ye of the 

nonmembers of the Association to the Code Authority, the three 

members of the As ociation of the Code Authority already elected 

shall appoint a nonmember to the Code Authority subject to the 

Approval of the Administrator. Should a vacancy occur in the 

Code Authority the remaining members shall elect a member of the 

Indu try from the same group as was represented by the one whose 

va cancy is thus filled. 

(c) The Association or any other trade or indu trial association 

directly or indirectly participating in the selection or activities of 

the Code AuthoritY- shall: (1) Impose no inequitable restrictions on 

membership, and (2) submit to the Admini trator true copies of its 

articles of association, by-laws, regulations, and any amendments 

when made thereto, together with such other information as to 
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oro-anization, and a tiviti a th Admini trat r may 

d em n ary fi th purp . of th A t. 

n ord r tha th d Auth ri h ll at all tim be truly 

r pr ntati of th Indu try an l in oth r r p c mply with 

th pr f he A t th Admini · r tor rna pr i uch 

hear in a a h m d m proper· and ther aft r if h hall find that 

the o Authority i not trul r pre ntati r do not in o h r 

r p t amply with th pro isi ns of the Act may r quire an 

appropriat modifi ation in th method of s lection of th Code 

Authority. 

( ) All m mb r of th Indu try hall be ntitled to participate in 

and har the benefits of the acti 1tie of the o Authority and to 

parti ipate in the election of the m mber th reof. NI mbers who 

so parti ipate in or hare the b nefits of the activitie of the Cod 

Au hority shall su tain their rea onable share of uch expen es. A e mens for the xpense of the Code Authority hall b determined ubject on review to di approval by tlie Admini trator on the 

ba i of volume of sales andj or u h other fa ctor a may be deem d 

equitable. 

2. The ode Authority shall have the following dutie and powers 

to the extent permitt d by the Act, subject to the right of he 

Administrator on review to disapprove any action tak n by the 

Code Authority. 

(a) To employ a competent Secretary or oth r agent who shall 

not be employed by or directly or indirectly affilia t d with any 

m mber of the Indu try to whom each member of the Industry shall 

furni h certified reports in the form required by the Code Authority 

on wages, hour , conditions of employment, and u h other matter 

as may be p rtinent to the Administration of thi Code. 

(b) With he view to informing the President and the Admini tration a to the observance of this Code, and as to whether the Indu try 

is taking appropriate teps to effect the declared policy of the Act, 

the Code Authority shall make such reports to the Administrator a 

he may direct. No indi idual reports shall be di clo ed to any o h r 

member of the Indu try or any other party, except to uch governmental agencies as may be de ignated by the Admini trator and to 

su h impartial ag nci a may be r quired to facilitate th admini tration of thi Code. 

( ·) The Code Authority may from time to time pr en to th 

Admini tt·ator recommendation for mo lifi ation of or ad ition t 

thi od ba d on conditions in th In u tr as th y rna. d lop 

whi h will t nd to ii t the op ration of th pr vi i n of thi od . u h r comm n ation up n approval by th Admini rator aft r 

such noti an h aring a he may r crib hall c n titute a part 

of and ha e the same f r e and efl'E a th provi ion of thi ode. 

( ) Th Co e Authority i al o t up to op rate with the 

Admini tt·ator in making inv i ati n a to h fun ti nino- and 

ob rvan of any J?f vi i n of thi od , at it own in tan r on 

r qu t of th Adm1ni tra or, ron mplaint of any p r. on aff 1 

and to report the arne t th Admini tra.t r. 

( ) Th d Au hori y hall mak tu i and 

looking toward th tabli hm nt f la ·. 1fi a i n 
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standards, and quality specifications :for products o:f the Industry, 

in cooperation with some Federal Government Agency, preferably 

the Bureau of Standards of the U.S. Department o:f Commerce. 

Upon approval by the Administrator, after such notice and hearing 

as he may prescribe1 such recommendations shall become effective 

as integral parts of this Code. 

(f) The Code Authority shall coordinate the Administration of 

this Code with such codes, if any, as may affect this Industry or any 

related industry, with a view to promoting joint and harmonious 

action upon matters o:f conunon interest. 

(g) The Code Authority shall cooperate with the Administrator 

in regulating the use of the N.R.A. Insignia solely by those members 

of the Industry who have assented to and are complying with this 

Code. 

(h) To recommend to the Administrator :further :fair trade practice provisions to govern the members o:f the Industry in their relations with each other or with other Industries, and to recommend 

to the Administrator measures for industrial planning, including a 

plan :for regularization and stabilization o:f employment. 

3. In addition to information required to be submitted as hereinbefore set forth, members of the Industry shall furnish such statistical information as the Administrator may deem necessary for 

the purposes recited in Section 3 (a) of the Act, to such Federal 

and State agencies as the Administration may designate. No provision of this Code shall relieve any person of any existing obligation to furnish reports to Government agencies. 

4. If the Administrator shall determine that any action of a Code 

Authority or any agency thereof may be unfair, or unjust, or contrary to the public interest, the Administrator may require that 

such action be suspended to afford an opportunity :for investigation 

of the merits of such action and further consideration by such Code 

Authority or agency pending final action which shall not be effective unless the Administrator approves, or unless he shall fail to 

disapprove, after thirty (30) days' notice to him of intention to 

proceed with such action in its original or modified form. 

5. Nothing contained in this Code shall constitute the members 

of the Code Authority partners for any purpose. Nor shall any 

member of the Code Authority be liable in any manner to anyone 

for any act of any other member, officer, agent or employee of the 

Code Authority. Nor shall any member of the Code Authority, 

exercising reasonable diligence in the conduct of his duties hereunder, be liable to anyone for any action or omission to act under 

this Code, except for his own wilful misfeasance or non-feasance. 

ARTICLE VII-TRADE PRACTICES 

1. The Code Authority shall formulate or cause to be formulated 

uniform principles of cost accounting or methods of cost finding 

which shall be adaptable to the business of the industry, which shall 

include in allowable cost the cost of raw n1aterials at market or 

inventory value, whichever shall be the lower; the cost of direct 

labor, and a reasonable charge for plant burden and administrative 

and distribution expenses. Upon approval by the Administrator 
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ounting or mrthod of cost finL1illg for the 

nccrmng it shall be di!-'trilmted bv th 

ARTICLE V1II-ExPuRT TRADE 

Provisions of thi 

ARTICLE IX-~IODIFICATION 

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ARTICLE X-~10NOPOLIES 

No provisions of this Code shall be so construed or applied as to 

permit monopolies or monopolistic practices, or to eliminate, oppress, 

or discriminate against small enterprises. 

ARTICLE XI-EFFECTIVE DATE 

This Code shall become effective ten days after its approval by the 

President. 

Approved CO<le No. 338. 

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