Approved Code No. 247 Registry No. 407-1-04 

NATIONAL RECOVERY ADMINISTRATION 

CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

FOOD DISH AND PULP AND 

PAPER PLATE INDUSTRY 

AS APPROVED ON FEBRUARY 1, 1934 

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UNITED STATES 

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 

WASHINGTON : 1934 

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Printing Office, Washington, D.C., and by district offices of the Bureau of Foreign 

and Domestic Commerce. 

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Approved Code No. 24 7 

CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

FOOD DISH AND PULP AND PAPER PLATE 

INDUSTRY 

As Approved on February 1, 1934 

ORDER 

APPROVING ConE OFF AIR CoMPETITION FOR THE Foon DrsH .AND PULP 

.AND p APER PLATE INDUSTRY 

An application having been duly made pursuant 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 Food Dish and Pulp and Paper Plate Industry, and hearings having been duly held thereon and the annexed 

report on said Code, containing findings with respect thereto, having 

been made and directed to the President : 

NOW, THEREFORE, on behalf of the President of the United 

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

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

1933, and otherwise; 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 

Competition be and it is hereby approved; provided, however, that 

the provisions of Article VI, Sections 2 to 9 inclusive, 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 lists or revised terms 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 sa-id Code as I may designate, 

and that any order which I may make after such hearing shall have 

the effect of a condition on the approval of said Code. 

HuaH S. JOHNSON, 

Ad1ninist?·ator for I ndustrial R ecovery. 

Approval Recommended: 

GEo. L. BERRY, 

Division Ad1ninistrator. 

\V .ASHINGTON, D.C., February 1, 1934. 

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REPORT TO THE PRESIDENT 

The PRESIDENT, 

The White House. 

SIR: This is a report of the hearing on the Code of Fair Competition for the Food Dish and Pulp Paper Plate Industry conducted 

in Washington on December 28, 1933, in accordance with the provision of Title I of the National Industrial Recovery Act. 

HOURS AND WAGES 

This Code provides a standard 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 nonproductive employees. Office employees are limited to an average of 40 hours per 

week over an eight-week period. 

The minimum wage rate in the North for hourly paid e1nplayees 

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 n1ale and 30¢ per hour for females. Office employees 

will receive a minimum 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 Indu try in 1929 employed approximately 1 600 per ons and 

in July 1933 about 1,800 persons. The number of the plants in the 

Industry increased from 12 in 1929 to 30 in 1933. Figures submitted 

by 17 plants engaged in the Industry show a total number, in July 

1933, of 1,491 factory employees of whom over 76% worked an 

average of at least 45 hours per week. The immediate effect of the 

Code will be to employ about 108 additional persons which number 

will probably increase to about 270 per ons by the Summer of 1934. In J nly 1933, 56% of male factory employees in the North and 

91% of the female factory employees received les sthan the proposed 

minimum rate of 40¢ and 35¢. The total increase in pay rolls as a 

result of the Code will be about 15%. 

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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; 

I find that: 

(a) Said Code is well de igned 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 of labor and management under adequate governmental sanctions and supervision, by 

eliminating unfair competitive practices, by promoting the fullest 

possible utilization of the present productive capacity of industries, 

by avoiding undue restriction of production (except as may be 

temporarily required), by increasing the consumption of industrial 

and agricultural products through increasing purcha ing power, by 

reducing ~mel relieving unemployment, by improving standards of 

labor, and by otherwi e 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 said 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 associations are industrial associations truly representative of the aforesaid Industry; and that said associations impose no inequitable restructions on admission to membership therein. 

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

of 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 economic process have 

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

Code. 

For these reasons this Code has been approved. 

Respectfully, 

FEBRUARY 1, 1934. 

HuGHS. JoHNSON, 

Administrator. 
CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION FOR THE FOOD DISH 

AND PULP AND PAPER PLATE 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 of pulp or paper dishes; wooden 

veneer dishes; pulp or paper plates. 

":Member "-A natural person, partnership, corporation, association, trust , trustee, trustee in bankruptcy, or receiver, engaged in 

such Industy. 

"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 ADl\IINISTRATION 

1. There shall forthwith be constituted a Code Authority of the 

Food Dish and Pulp and Paper Plate Industry which shall comprise six ( 6) members of the industry. Three (3) of such members 

shall be selected by the Board of Directors of the Food Dish Associates of America, and three (3) of such members shall be selected by 

the Board of Directors of the Pulp and Paper Plate Associates of 

America. In addition to the members so selected the Administrator 

may appoint one or more persons to serve on the Code Authority. 

The persons appointed by the Administrator shall serve in an advisory capacity, shall have no vote, and shall sene without expen e to 

th3 Industry. 

2. Each of the said Associates shall impose no inequitable restrictions on membership and shall file with the Administrator certified 

c Jies of any amendments of its By-Laws, relating to eligibility or 

admission to membership in said Associates, or relating to the 

method of selection of the members of such Board of Directors which 

said Associates 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. I£ the Administrator shall determine that 

any action of the Code Authority or any agency thereof is unfair 

or unjust or contrary to the public interest, the Administrator may 

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require that such action be suspended for a period of not to exceed 

thirty days 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 be taken only upon approYal 

by the Administrator . 

. 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 acc-ept the benefit of 

the services of the Code Authority or otherwise as ent 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 

sam·e with recommendations to the Administrator. 

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

of contracts entered into by members of the Industry, where the 

costs of executing such contracts are increased through the application of the provisions of the Act or of this Code. 

ARTICLE III-HouRs OF LABOR 

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

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

schedule: 

SCHEDULE OF WORKING HOURS 

(a) Watchrnen.-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, trock d1'iv ers, and their helpers.-One hundred 

eighty (180) 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. 

(c) Engineers, firemen, electricians, filt er-plant employees, electric and hyd1·oelect1'ic 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 workers or artisans employed 

in any plant, 1nill or facto ry or on w01·k connected 1..vith the opera- tion 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 lin1its may be exceeded for any reason at any time provided that all time worked in excess of the maximums prescribed 

~hall be paid for as not le s 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 in 

any one week. 
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(e) Employees regularly engaged in a 11W11agerial or executive 

capa ity and their pe1·sonal secretaries, forem n, and superV1'son, 

?'eceivin.c; thh·ty-fiz e doll{l1'S ($35.00) or 1nore p 1' week, and out ide 

sales1nen.-N o limitation. 

(f)All othe1' employees.-Forty-eight (48) hour. in any one 

week and not to exceed three hundred twenty (320) hours in any 

perio l of eight (8) consecutive weeks. 

2. No limitation contained in said schedule shall apply to employees of any cla. s when engaged in emergency repair or emergency maintenance work occasioned by breakdowns or involving protection of life or property, provided, however, that all time worked 

in excess of the limitations pre cribed in said schedule shall be paid 

for as not less than time 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 employer in this Industry, exceeds the maximum permitted herein. 

ARTICLE IV-W .AGES 

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

or artisan employed in any pulp or paper di h or pulp or paper 

plate plant, mill or factory or on work connecte l with the operation 

of any such plant, mill, or factory shall be as follow~: 

(a) In the Northern zone, which shall consist of all of the territory of the United States except the States named in subdivision 

(b) hereof 

:Male labor, 40 cents per hour. 

Female labor, 35 cents per hour. 

(b) In the Southern zone, which shall consist of the States of Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina , Georgia, Florida, 

Alaban1a, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkan as, and Texas 

Male labor, 35 cents per hour. 

F emale labor, 30 cents per hour. 

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

or artisan employed in any wooden veneer dish plant, mill or factory, 

or on work connected with or incidental to the operation of such 

plant, mill or factory, shall be: 

Male labor, 35 cents per hour. 

Female labor, 35 cents per hour. 

3. The minimum rates of wages for all other employees 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 aiel Section $14.00 per 

week. 

(c) Part-time employees covered by the provi ion of this section 

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

and 35¢ per hour in the South. 

4. This Article establishes a minimum rate of pay which shall 

apply irre pecti-ve of whether an employee is actually compensated 

on time-rate, piecework, or other ba is. 
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5. Female employees performing sub -tantially the same work as 

male employees, shall receiYe the ·ame rate of pay as male employees. 

The Code Authority shall within 90 days after the effective date 

of this Code file with the Administrator a de cription of all o cupation in the Industry in which both men and women are employed. 

6. The wage rates of all employees receiYing more than the minimum rates herein prescribed shall be revie,Yed and uch adjustments, 

if any, made therein as are equitable in the light of all the circumstance , and within sixty (60) days after the effectiYe date hereof, 

the Code Authority shall report to the Administrator the action 

taken by all members of the Indu try under thi Section. 

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

more than 5% of the total number of employees de cribed in Section 

3 hereof, may be employed at a wage of not less than 80% of the 

minimum. prescribed by said Section, provided that at least one uch 

office boy or girl may be employed by each member. 

8. A person whose earning capacity is limited becau e of age or 

physical or mental handicap may 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 de ignated by the 

United States Department of Labor shall have issued a certificate 

authorizing his employment on such basi. . Each member shall file 

with the Code Authority a list of all such person employed by him. 

ARTICLE V-GENERAL LABOR PROVISIONS 

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

in the industry. No per ·on under eighteen (18) years of age shall 

be employed at operations or occupations which are hazardou in 

nature or dangerous to health. The Code Authority shall submit 

to the Administrator within sixty (60) da3 after the effective date 

of this C9de 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 empowered to issue employment or 

age certificates or permit , 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 employers of 

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

in self-organization or in other concerted activities for the purpo e 

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 company union or to refrain from 

joining, organizing, or assi ting a labor organization of his own 

choosing. Employers shall comply with the maximum hours of 

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

approved or prescribed by the Pre ident. 

3. No provision in this Code shall super ede any State or Federal 

law which impo. es on employers more stringent requirements as to 

age of employees, wages, hours of work, or as to safety, health, sani-
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tary or general working conditions or insurance or fire protection, 

than are imposed by this Code. 

4. No employer shall reclassify e1nployees or duties of occupations 

performed, or engage in any other subterfuge for the purpose of 

defeating the purposes or provisions of the Act or of this Code. 

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

this Code in conspicuous places accessible to employees. 

6. Every employer shall make reasonable provisions for the safety 

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 after the effective date of this Code. · 

7. No provision in this Code shall supersede provisions as to hours, 

wages, and conditions of employment which are established for 

specific projects by competent governmental authority acting in accordance with law, or to terms of employment which are established 

by labor agreements now in force, where either the wages are higher 

or the hours of labor are shorter, or both, than are those set forth 

in this Code. 

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

Industry to determine the feasibility of the adoption of a shorter 

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

date of this Code, make a report of its findings to the Administrator. 

The Code Authority shall also submit to the Administrator within 

six ( 6) months after the effective date of this Code, a plan for the 

stabilization and regularization of employment. 

9. The manufacturer or partial manufacture of any product of the 

Industry in homes shall be prohibited. 

ARTICLE VI-AccouNTING-SELLrN·a 

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

standard method of accounting and costing for the industry and 

submit the same to the Administrator. vVhen it shall have been 

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

at least as detailed and complete as, such standard method. 

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

open-price plan of selling such product or products of the industry 

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 members of the industry who manufacture such products not less than 30 

days prior to the date so fixed. 

3. At least 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 u 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 most favorable terms. 

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

shall prescribe and shall contain all information necessary•to permit 

any interested person to determine the exact net price per unit after 
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all discounts or other deductions have been made, v-vhether·pertaining 

to a single order, a commitment for future delivery, or a contract. 

All such original schedules shall be2ome effectiYe on the date fixed by 

the Code Authority as provided in Section 2 hereof. 

5. A revised schedule 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 therefore shall be deemed to have filed a 

schedule co11.forming in respect to price and terms of sale with the 

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

and the most favorable terms. Any schedule or notice filed hereunder, shall become effective ten (10) days after the date of filing, 

provided, however, that an increased price shall become effective 

immediately. 

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

Industry who manufacture any particular product with copies of all 

schedules, revised schedules, and notices of withdrawal, which pe.,.-

tain to such product. Immediately 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 . a me product 

effective as of the same date as the notice of withdraV~ al of such 

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 effective on 

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

as his own, the schedule of such other member. In the latter event, 

he shall be deemed to have filed a revi ed schedule conforming to the 

revised schedule of such other member. 

7. No such schedule of prices and terms of sale filed by any member, or 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 member may, by notice to the Code Authority, adopt as 

his own, a lower price filed by another designated member. Such 

adoption shall become automatically void upon the withdrawal 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 Indu try, shall sell such product for less than such price or upon 

terms or conditions more favorable than stated in such price schedule. No member 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 most favorable terms stated in any price schedule for such 

product then on file. 

9. The Code Authority shall furnish at cost to any nonmember 

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

with it. Such price schedules shall be made available to nonmembers at the same time that they are sent to members. 
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10. No member shall ell any product of the industry for which 

no open-price plan i in effect at les than the cost thereof to uch 

member, determined a. provided in Section 11 hereof, except to meet 

the price of a competitor who e price does not violate such Section. 

11. Cost, for the purpo es of this Article, shall be determined pursuant to the method of accounting an 1 costing pre cribed as proYidecl in Section 1 hereof as soon as such method is adopted and appro-ved and theretofore pursuant to the method employed by such 

member subject to such preliminary rules as the Code Authority 

hall 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 \.uthority furnish a designated agency of the Code 

Authority in respect to closed tran actions 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, tran portation 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 in such manner, at such price, and such 

terms and conditions as the Code Authority and the Administrator 

may approve. 

14. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to prevent the 

fulfillment of a bona fide contract existing on the effective date of 

this Code. 1 

ARTICLE VII-REPORTS AND STATISTICS 

1. Each member shall prepare and file with an impartial agent 

designated by the Code Authority at such times and in such manner as it may prescribe, such statistics, data, and information relating to plant capacity, volume of production, volume of sales in units 

and dollars, orders received, unfilled orders, stocks on hand, inventory 

both raw and finished, number of employees, wage rates, employee 

earning , hours of work, and other m.atters as the Code Authority 

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

information so furnished by any member shall be subject to check· 

ing for the purpose of verification by an examination of the books) 

account :and record of such member by any disintere ted accountant 

or accountants or other qualified person or persons designated by the 

Code Authority. 

2. Except as otherwise provided in the Act, or in this Code, all 

f:tati tics: data, and information filed or required in accordance with 

the provision of this Code hall be confidential and the statistics, 

data, and information of one member shall not be revealed to another member. No such data or information shall be published except in combination with other similar data and in such a manner 

a. to avoid the disclosure of confidential information. The Code 

1 See paragraph 2 of order approving this Code. 
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Authority shall arrange in such manner as it may determine for the 

current publication of industry statistics to members. 

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

4. In addition to information required to be submitted to the 

Code Authority there shall be furnished to Government Agencies 

such statistical information as the Administrator may deem necessary 

for the purposes recited in Section 3 (a) of the Act. 

ARTICLE VIII-MoNOPOLIES 

1. No prov1s10n of this Code shall be so applied as to permit 

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

discriminate against small enterprises. 

ARTICLE IX-RECOMMENDATIONS 

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

Administrator reconunendations based on conditions in the Industry 

which will tend to effectuate the operation of this Code and the 

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

(a) For the establishment of additional rules of fair trade practice for the Industry and for the codification of its trade customs, and the enforcement thereof. 

(b) For the establishment of plans to equalize production ""ith 

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 decrease in the nmnber of Industry members of the Code Authority and/or for a change in the method of 

choosing such members. 

2. For the purpose of assistin~ the Code Authorities of the Paper 

:Manufacturing and/or Convertmg Industries in the adjustment of 

all labor disputes and labor complaints arising within such Industries, the Code Authority shall consider the advisability of creating a 

Joint Industrial Relations Board for such Industries and shall r eport 

its recommendations to the Administrator. 

3. Recommendations made .pursuant to Sections 1 and 2 hereof 

when approved by the Administrator shall haYe the same force and 

effect as other provisions of this Code. 

ARTICLE X-TRADE PRACTICES 

1. The following are hereby constituted Trade Prac.tices for the 

Industry and failure to comply with the provisions thereof shall be 

a violation of this code. 

(a) No member of the Industry shall practice deception in regard 

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

description, statement, record, or undisclosed consideration. 

(b) Members shall refrain from dumping, deferred delivery, 

extension of stated credit, and secret rebates. 
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(c) No member shall wilfully injure by falsely defaming a competitor's goods, credit, or ability to perform his contracts. 

(d) No member shall wilfully induce 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 Yalue for the purpo e of influencing or rewarding the action of any employee, agent, or representative of another 

in relation to the business of the employer of such employee, the 

principal of such agent 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 u eel for advertising except so far as 

such articles are actually used 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 circumstances of the Industry require the practice. 

(g) Terms of sale in the Industry shall be not n1ore favorable 

than two (2% ) percent for cash if paid within thirty (30) days or 

net thirty-one (31) days from date of shipment. 

(h) No member shall guarantee either dealers or wholesalers floor 

stock against decline. 

ARTICLE XI-GENERAL PROVISIONS 

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

business which is included in this Industry. 

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 I ndustry. 

3. Such of the Provisions 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 circumstances or 

experience may indicate. 

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

subject to the right of the President, in accordance with the provisions of Section 10 (b) 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, and specifically, but without limitation, to the 

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

or any conditions imposed by him upon his approval thereof. 

5. This Code shall become effective on the second Monday after 

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

United States. 

Approved Code No. 247. 

Registry No. 407-1-04. 

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