Approved Code No. 517-Amendment No. 1 Registry No. 1122-1-06

NATIONAL RECOVERY ADMINISTRATION

AMENDMENT TO

CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION

FOR THE

RING TRAVELER

MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY

AS APPROVED ON DECEMBER 13, 1934

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Approved Code No. 517-Amendment No. 1

AMENDMENT TO CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION

FOR THE

RING TRAVELER MANUFACTURING INDUST

As Approved on December 13, 1934

ORD)ER

APPRov1NG AMENDMENT OF (O oFFAR C'W\;(oMBE'I'TIfN FOR TIlE R

TRAE LE IPR MANUFACTUR1N INDQsTYY

An application haviii been duly m puiLK-nt to and i

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compliance with thje proVi>inS of Title I Of tlhv N tonal ind

Recovery Act. approved ui nie 1(1, , r apjr1iv1 of al mied- n 

meiint to a Code of Fair Comipett 4 r thic g Traveler Mianiufacturing Industry. aid an opportUnIity to be heLir1 hav ing be(n :d

afforded to all intereded partie5 8nd thil aro a

amendment, containing findimgs with re>pet thereto, having b

made and directed to the President:

NOW, THEREFORE, on behalf ou the President of the U

States, the National Industrial lReeuvery Bard. pursuant to a

itv vested in it by Executive Ordeir of the President, inc

Executive Order No. 6859, and otherwise; does hereby incor

by reference said annexed report and! does fid that said amen

and the Code as constituted after beiig tmin uded comply i

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respects with the pertinent provisions and will promote the p

and purposes of said title of said Act, and does hereby orde

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said amendment be and it is hereby approved, and that the pr

approval of said Code is hereby amended to include an ap

of said Code in its entirety as amended.

NATIONAn. INDu-rTIRIAn R'wovERY BOARD,

By IN. A. HARRIMAN. (dm0initratiVe O//

Approval recommended:

BARTON W. MURRAY.

WASHINGTON, 102999*-1385--98--34 Divison December D. Admdnist+ator. C.. 13, 1934. (1)
REPORT TO THE PRESIDENT

The PRESIDENT,

The White Honse.

SIR: Under the Code of Fair Competition for the Ring T

Manufacturing Industry as approved September 7, 1934, a

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cordance with Administrative Order X-61, the Industry h

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mitted an amendment to said Code, which will provide for t

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tion of the Industry's own Code Authority, Budget and B

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Contribution provisions and exemption of certain classe

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ployees from the hour and wage provisions, such exempt

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in accordance with N. R. A. policy and as expressly prov

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in the Basic Code as set forth in Administrative Order No

X

An opportunity to be heard was duly noticed and no o

were received from the Industry or from interested par

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ciated with the Industry.

FINDINGS

The Deputy Adjninistrator in his final report to the N

Industrial Recovery Board on said Amendment to said Cod

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found as herein set forth and on the basis of all proceeding

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ma111tter,

It is found that:

(a) The anendient to said Code and the Code as amea

well designed to promote the policies and purposes of T

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the Na tiolal Industrial Recovery Act, includin g the reo

ob1)structions to the free flow of interstate and foreign c

which tend to diminish the amount thereof, and will pro

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the general welfare I y pronoting the organization of ind

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the purpose of cooperative aettion of labor and manageme

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aldc(lilate governmental sanction and svipervis ion, by eli

uinfair' comlipetitive practices, by promoting the fullest poss

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zationi of tie present productive capacity of industries, by a

undue restrictioni of pIo)duction (except as may be tempo

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1uired), by increasiing the consumption of industrial and a

tiural products through increa-ing purchasing power, by r

and relievingy unemployment, by improving standards of l

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by otherwise rehalbilitating indl story.

(b) The Code as amnen led complies in all respects with t

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tion aiendinent. ticut Slbset indiistrial and tions (c) that Sub-.ectimn on The provis'oiiOs i' sail atd[lii ]n assoeiatioi RIing (b) association ssion of (a) Travelers of Section to said of truly ielmbership Section Tile imose)Od 10 Manufacturers representative thereof. of 3, (2)said anSubsection therein Act,imposes Association of including and the (a) no has aforesaid inequitablof applied withoSectiowas l7aiIrft
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(d) The amendment and the Code ,s amended are not d

to and will not permit monopolies or monopolistic practices.

(e) The amendment and the Code, as amended are not desi

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and will not eliminate or oppress small enterprises and wn

operate to discriminate against them.

(f) Those engaged in other steps of the economic proce

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

amendment.

For these reasons, therefore, this amendment has been ap

For the National Industrial Recovery Board:

W. A. HARRIMAN

A dministrative O

D)ECEM3BER 13, 1934.
AMENDMENT TO CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION F

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RING TRAVELER MANUFACTURING INDUST

PURPOSE

Pursuant to Paragraph 3 of Administrative Order X

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Ring Traveler Manufacturing Industry, subject to the B

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for this Industry, approved by the Administrator, Septembe

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and to further effectuate the policies of Title I of the Nation

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trial Recovery Act, have submitted the following Amend

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the Basic Code for the Ring Traveler Manufacturing Indu

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these Amendments are established as a part of said Basic C

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Fair Competition and shall be binding upon every memb

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Ring Traveler Man ufacturing Industry.

AMENDMENT

Amiiend Section 2 of Article II by designating preheltt p

aw parairaph " a and adding new paragraphs -b " " a

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Amended Section 2 of Article iI will then read as follows

* SECTION 2. Exceptions.-(a) The provisions of Sectio

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not apply to employees engaged in emergency maintenance oe

gency repair work involving breakdown or the protection olo

property, nor to persons employed in a managerial or e

capacity who earn regularly thirty-five dollars ($:}5.00) pe

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]iore, nor to any other class of employees which the NatI

dustrial Recovery Board shall find upon application of trr

sentatives of the trade or industry should be subjected to a

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tion or modification in accordance with N. R. A. policy; p

however, that employees engaged in such emergency ma

or emergency repair work shall be paid at one and one-h(

times their normal rate for all hours worked in excess of f

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hours per week.

(b) Traveling salesmen are exempted from limitatiat

hours.

"(c) Watchmen shall not be employed in excess of fifty(

hours in any one week, and each watchman shall be entit

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least one day off in any fourteen (14) day period.

"(d) No accounting, clerical or office employee shall be e

in excess of forty (40) hours in any one week or nine (9) hi

of any one day ; provided, that such employees may work not i

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day." p of any Amend " forty-eight SECTION periodne Section less year. 3. (48) Aidn.mun than 3 Eight of hours at Article the Wages.-No hours shall in rate AMENDMENT any II of (4) to one thirty-five read employee week constitute as follows: during (350) shall a normal eight per hoube pa(wae
that clerical and office employees shall not be paid in any pay p

less than at the rate of fourteen dollars ($14.00) per week."

AM EN1)ME NT

Amend Article IV by deleting the present Article and ins

a new Article. Amended Article IV will then read as follow

"ARTICLE I -ADMIN ISTRATION

SEC'IioN 1. To further effectuate the policies of the Act, a C

Authority is hereby constituted to co-operate with the Na

Industrial Recovery Board in the administration of this Code. T

Code Authoritv shall be constituted as follows and selected i

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following imianner:

(a) The Code Authority shall be composed of six voting M

bers, each of tile six present members of the Industry to sele

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as its representative on the Code Authority.

"(b) There shall be not more than three representatives o

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National Industrial Recovery Board, to be selected by it, who s

serve without vote.

"(c) Should there from time to tinie additional firms or co

tions enter into this Industry they shall be entitled to represen

on the Code Authority in such manner as may be approved b

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National Industrial Recovery Board.

(d) It being found necessary in order to support the admin

tion of this Code and to maintain the standards of fair comp

established hereunder and to effectuate the policy of the Act, the C

Authority is authorized:

" (1) To incur such reasonable obligations as are necessar

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proper for the foregoing purposes, and to met such obligation

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of funds which may be raised as hereinafter provided and w

shall be held in trust for the. purposes of the Code;

" (2) To submit to the National Industrial Recovery Boar

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its approval, subject to such notice and opportunity to be heard a

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may deem necessary (1) an itemized budget of its estimated exp

for the foregoing purposes, and (2) an equitable basis upon w

the funds necessary to support such budget shall be contribut

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members of the Industry.

(3) After such budget and basis of contribution have beea

proved by the National Industrial Recovery Board, to determin

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obtain equitable contributions as above set forth by all memb

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the Industry, and to that end, if necessary, to institute legal pro

ings therefor in its own name.

" (4) Each member of the Industry shall pay his or its equ

contribution to the expenses of the maintenance of the Code A

Code ity, covery tions. regiulations above the Code determined and shall provided, Board. Only contributing Authority be pertainingT entitled as unless hereinabove or members to thereto to duly the receive participate expenses exempted issued of provided, the the benefits by of in Industry from making its the the and subject administration selection National of any complying of of Industriasuch its to membvoluruleas conwihaRto
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activities or to make use of any emblem or insignia of the National

Recovery Administration.

" (5) The Code Authority shall neither incur nor pay any obligation substantially in excess of the amount thereof as estimated in its

approved budget, and shall in no event exceed the total amount contained in the approved budget, except upon approval of the National

Industrial Recovery Board; and no subsequent budget shall contain

any deficiency item for expenditures in excess of prior budget estiniates except those which the National Industrial Recovery Board

shall have so approved."

A AMENDMENT

Amend Article VI to read as follows:

" ARTICLE VI

" (a) This Code and all the provisions thereof are expressly made

subject to the right of the President, in accordance with the provisions of sub-section (b) of Section 10 of the Act, from time to time

to cancel or modify any order, approval, license, rule, or regulation

issued under Title I of said Act.

Such of the provisions of this Code as are not required to be

included herein by the Act may, with the approval of the National

Industrial Recovery Board, be amended or eliminated in such manner as may be indicated by the needs of the public, by changes in circumstances, or by experience. All the provisions of this Code, unless

so amended or eliminated, shall remain in effect until June 16, 1935.

" (b) For the purposes of a complete understanding of the provisions of this Basic Code the provisions of Administrative Orders

X-62 and X-63 are incorporated herein by reference, to the extent

that they remain unchanged by these foregoing amendments."

Approved Code No. 517-Amendment No. 1.

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