Approved Code No. 197-Amendment No.2 Registry No. 1303-07 

NATIONAL RECOVERY ADMINISTRATION 

AMENDMENT TO 

CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

RETAIL FARM EQUIPMENT 

TRADE 

AS APPROVED ON OCTOBER 3, 1934 

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Approved Code No. 197-Amendment No. 2 

AMENDMENT TO CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

RETAIL FARM EQUIPMENT TRADE 

As Approved on October 3, 1934 

ORDER 

APPROVING AMENDMENT OF THE ConE OF FAIR CoMPETITION FOR THE 

RETAIL FARM EQmPMEXT TRADE 

An application having been duly made pursuant to and in full 

compliance with the provisions of Title I of the National Industrial 

Recovery Act, ~pproved June 16, 1933,· for approval of an amendment to a Code of Fair Competition for the Retail Farm Equipment 

Trade., and a Notice of Opportunity to be Heard having been duly 

given thereon and the annexed report on said amendment, containing findings with respect thereto, having been made and directed to 

the President; 

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

States, the National Industrial Recovery Board, pursuant to authority vested in it by Executive Orders of the President, including 

Executive Order No. 6859, dated September 27, 1934, and otherwise; 

does hereby incorporate, by reference, said annexed report and does 

find that said amendment and the Code as constituted after being 

amended comply in all respects with the pertinent provisions and will 

promote the policy and purposes of said Title of said Act, and does 

hereby order that said amendment be and it is hereby approved, and 

that the previous approval of said Code is hereby modified to include 

an approval of said Code in its entirety as amended. 

NATIONAL INDUSTRIAL REcovERY BoARD, 

By G. A. LYNCH, Ad1ninistrative Officer. 

Approval recommended: 

RoBERT L. HousTON, 

Division Administrator. 

WASHINGTON, D. c., 

October· 3, 1934. 

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REPORT TO THE PRESIDENT 

The PRESIDENT, 

The V hite House. 

Sm: This is a report on an amendment to the Code of Fair Competition for the Retail Farm Equipment Trade which empowers the 

National Indu trial Recovery Board to appoint not to exceed seven 

additional members of the Trade, preference being given to members 

of the. Trade in the Southern States, who are non-members of the 

constituent associations of the Federation, each member to have 

equal vote. These additional members, so appointed, are to serve 

on the Code Authority together with the other members elected in 

accordance with the provisions of the Code. 

This amendment is proposed as a modification of Article IV, paragraph (b), and is amendment number two to the Code. An apportunity to be heard has been accorded all interested parties. 

The Deputy Administrator in his final report to us on said amendment to said Code having found as herein set forth and on the basis 

of all the proceedings in this matt:.€r; 

vV e find that : 

(a) The amendment to said code and the Code as amended are 

well designed to promote the policies and purposes of Title I of the 

National Industrial Recovery Act including the removal of obstructions 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 sanction 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 increa ing purchasing power, by reducing and relieving 

unemployment, by improving standards of labor, and by otherwise 

rehabilitating industry. 

(b) The Code as amended 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. 

(c) The Code empowers the Code Authority to present the aforesaid amendment on behalf of the Trade as a whole. 

(d) The amendment and the Code as amended are not designed to 

and will not permit monopolies or monopolistic practices. 

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(e) The amendment and the Code as amended are 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 appro' al of said 

amendment. 

For these reason 

O cTOBER 3, 1934. 

we have approved this amendment. 

NATIONAL I JDUSTRIAL RECO\ERY BoARD, 

By G. A. LYNCH, Administrative Officer. 
AMENDMENT TO CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION FOR 

THE RETAIL FARM EQUIPMENT TRADE 

The second sentence of paragraph (b) Article IV, is hereby deleted 

and the following substituted therefor: 

The Central Code Authority shall consist of one member from 

each constitutent association of the Federations of Implement Deal· 

ers' Associations of the United States of America, to be elected hy 

the respective Associations, each member to have equal vote. The 

National Recovery Administration shall appoint not to exceed seven 

additional members of the Trade, who are non-members of the constituent associations of the Federation, each member to have equal 

vote, preference being given to members of the Trade in the Southern 

States. 

Approve-d Code No. 197-.Amendment No. 2. 

Registry No. 1303-07. 

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