Approved Code No. 293 Registry No. 404-08 

NATIONAL RECOVERY ADMINISTRATION 

CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

GUMMING INDUSTRY 

AS APPROVED ON FEBRUARY 17, 1934 

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Approved Code No. 293 

CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

GUMMING INDUSTRY 

As Approved on February 17, 1934 

ORDER 

APPROVING ConE OF FAIR CoMPETITION FOR THE GuMl\IING INDUSTRY 

An application having been duly ma9-e 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 Gumming 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 Or lers 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 A·ct; 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 said 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. 

Approval recommended : 

GEo. L. BERRY, 

HuGH S. JoHNsoN, 

Administrator for Industrial Recovery. 

Division .Adm.inistr(J)tor. 

W' ASHINGTON, D.C., 

February 17, 1934. 

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REPORT TO THE PRESIDENT 

The PREsiDENT, 

The White House. 

Sm: This is a report of the hearing on the Code of Fair Con1petition for the Gumming Industry, conducted in Washington on October 

17, 1933 in accordance with the provisions of Title I of the National 

Industrial RecoYery Act. 

HO"CRS AND WAGES 

This o le provide a 40 hour 'Yeek for factory workers with a 

weekly tolerance of eight hours to be paid for as overtime. The 

usual exceptions are made in regard to non-productive 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 employees 

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 males and 30¢ per hour for females. Office emplo:rees 

wjll 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 1 rice plan of selling is provided, and selling below co-t, 

except to meet competition, i prohibited. 

OTHER PROYISIONS 

Provision i made for furnishing the Administrator with uch 

stati ·tical data a he may require. 

ECON Ol\IIC EFFECT OF THE CODE 

The Industry employed in 1929 about 800 persons and in May, 

1933 about 814 persons. The average hours worked per week by 

factory employees increased from 44 in the first half of 1933 to 53 

in the week of July 9-15, 1933. The effect of the Code 'Yill be to 

employ approximately 250 additional workers. 

Because of the percentage of workers receiving les than the proposed minimum wage the increase in the total payroll ~ of the 

indu try, as a result of the Code, will be about 6%. 

FINDINGS 

The Deputy Administrator in hi final report to me on said Code 

having found as her-ein et forth an 1 on the ba. is of all the proceedings in this rna tter ; 

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I find that: 

(a) Said Code is well designed to promote the policies and purposes of Title I of the National Industrial Recovery Act, including 

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 among the trade groups, 

by inducing and maintaining united 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 purchasing power, by reducing and relieving unemployment, by improving standards of 

labor, and by otherwise rehabilitating industry. 

(b) Said Industry normally employs not more than ·50,000 einployees; 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 association 

fs 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 will 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 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 17' 1934. 

HuaH S. JoHNSON, 

Adm&inistrator. 
CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION FOR THE GUMMING 

INDUSTRY 

To effectuate the policies of Title I of the National Industrial 

Recover?: Act1 the following is hereby established as a Code of Fair 

Competition tor the above named Industry and shall be binding on 

every member thereof. 

ARTICLE I-DEFINITIONS 

The following word are used in this Code with the meaning 

herein set forth : 

"Industry "-The manufacture of gummed paper tapes and stay 

papers and gummed cloth tape , both plain and printed; gummed 

flat papers and such special gummed paper and gummed cloth products as are natural affiliates. 

"Me1nber "-A natural person, partnership1 corporation, association, trust, tru tee, trustee in bankruptcy, receiver, or other form of 

enterpri. ·e engaged in such Indu try. 

"Act '-Title I of the National Indu trial Recovery Act. 

"Administrator "-The Administrator for Industrial Recovery 

under Title I in the Act. 

ARTICLE II-ORGANIZATION AND ADMINISTRATION 

SECTION 1. The members of the Executive Committee of the 

Gummed Industries Association, together with such other person or 

persons as the Admini ti·ator may designate, are hereby constituted 

The Code Authority of the Industry. The members of the Code 

Authority designated by the Administrator shall ha' e no vote and 

shall serve without compensation from the Industry. 

SECTION 2. The aid Association shall impose no inequitable restrictions on membership and shall file with the Administrator 

certified copies of any amendments of its By-Laws relating to eligibility or admission to membership in said Association, or relating to the 

method of selection of the member of such Executive Connnittee 

which said Association may hereafter adopt. 

SECTION 3. The Admini trator may at any time pre cribe a different method for electing the Industry members of the Code 

Authority, and thereafter, such members shall be chosen in the 

manner so prescribed. · 

SECTION 4. The Code Authority is charged ge.nerally with the duty 

of administering this Code. If the Administrator shall determine 

that any action of the Code Authority, or any agency thereof, may be 

unfair or unjust or contrary to the public int rest, the Administrator may require that such action be suspended to afford an opportunity for investigation of the merit of such action and further consideration by the Code Authority or agency pending final action 

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which shall not be effective unless the Administrator approves or 

unless he shall fail to elisa pprove after thirty ( 30) days notice to 

him of intention to proceed with such action in its original or 

modified form. 

SEcTION 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 accept the benefit of 

the services of the Code Authonty or otherwise assent to this Code. 

SECTION 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 same with recommendations to the Adm~11istrator. 

SEcTION 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 cost~ 

of executing such contracts are increased through the application of 

the provisions of the Act or of this Code. 

ARTICLE III-HouRs OF L ABOR 

SECTION 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 VlORKING HOURS 

(a) vVatchmen: Fifty six (56) hours in any one week but not 

more than six (6) days in any seven (7) day period; or fifty six (56) 

hours in any one week but not more than eight (8) hours in any one 

day. 

(b) Chauffeurs, truckdrivers, 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 

1n 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, filter plant employees, electric 

and hydro-electric operators: One hundred and 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, mill' or factory or on work connected with the operation 

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 limits may be exceeded for any reason at any time provided that all time worked in excess of the maximum prescribed 

shall be paid for as not less 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. 

(e) Employees regularly engaged in a managerial or executive 

capacity and their personal secretaries, foremen and supervisors, 
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receiving thirty five dollar ($35.00) or more per week, and outside 

salesmen : No limitation. 

(f) All other employee ·: Forty eight ( 48) hours in any one week 

but not to exceed three hundred t''enty (320) hours in any period 

of eight (8) consecutive weeks. . 

SECTION 2. No limitation contained in said schedule shall apply to 

employees of any class when engaged in emergency repairs 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 prescribed in said schedule shall be paid 

for as not less than time and one-third. 

SECTION 3. No employer shall knowingly permit any employee to 

work for any time which, when totaled with that already performed 

with another employer or employers in this Industry, exceeds the 

maximum permitted herein. 

ARTicLE IV-vV AGEs 

SECTION 1. The minimum rate of wage of any laborer, mechanical worker or arti an employed in any plant, mill or factory, or on 

work connected with the operation o£ any such plant, mill or factory, 

shall be as follows : 

(a) In the Northern zone, which hall consist of all the territory 

of the United States except the States named in subdivision (b) 

hereof: 

Male labor, 40 cents per hour. 

Female labor 35 cent per hour. 

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

Alabama, l\1ississipp1 , Loui iana, Arkansas and Texas: 

Male labor, 35 cents per hour. 

Female labor, 30 cents per hour. 

SECTION 2. The minimum rate of wage 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 said Section, $14.00 per 

week. 

(c) Part-time employees covered by the provisions of this Section 

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

and 35¢ per hour in the South. 

SECTION 3. This Article establishes a n1.inimum rate of pay which 

shall apply irrespective of whether an employee is actually compensated on a time rate, piece work, or other basis. 

SE.CTION 4. Female employees performing substantially the same 

work as male employees, shall receive the same rate of pay as male 

employees. The Code Authority shall, within ninety (90) days after 

the effective elate of this Code, file with the Administrator a description of all occupations in the Industry in which both men and women 

are employed. 

SECTION 5. The wage rates of all employees receiving more than 

the minimum rat-es herein prescribed shall be reviewed and such 

adjustments, if any, made therein as are equitable in the light of all 
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the circumstances, and 'vithin sixty (60) days after the effective date 

hereof, the Code Authority shall report to the Administrator the 

action taken by all members of the Industry under this Se tion. 

SECTION 6. Office boy and girls under eighteen (18) years of age, 

to the extent of no more than 5% of the total number of employees 

described in Section 2 hereof, may be employed at a wage of not 

less than 80% of the minimum prescribed by said Section, provided 

that at lea t one such office boy or girl may be employed by each 

member. 

SECTION 7. 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 thB State Authority or other agency designated by 

the United States Department of Labor shall have issued a certifi- cate authorizing his employment on uch basi . Each member shall 

file with the Code Authority a li t of all such persons employed by 

him. The p1·ovi ion of this Section requiring a certificate of authority hall not become effectiYe until ixty (60) days after the effectiYe 

tla te of this Code. 

ARTICLE V-GENERAL L ABOR PROYISIONS 

SECTION 1. No per on under sixteen (16) year. of age hall be 

employed in the Industry. No per on under eighteen (18) years of 

age shall be employed at operations or occupations which are hazardous in nature or dangerous to health. The Code Authority shall 

submit to the Adn1inistrator within sixty (60) days after the effective date of this Code a list of such operation and 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 enlployment or age certificates or permits, showing that the employee is of 

the required age. 

SEOTION 2. Employee 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 employer of 

labor, or their agents, in the designation of such repre entative or 

in self-organization or in other concerted activities for the purpose 

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, or~nizing, or assisting a labor organization of hi own 

choosing. ~mployers shall comply with the maximum hour of 

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

approved or prescribed by the President. 

SECTION 3. No provision in this Code shall supersede any State or 

Federal law which imposes on employers more stringent requirements as to age of employees, wages, hours of work, or as to afety, 

health, sanitary or general working condition or insurance or fire 

protection, than are imposed by this Code . . 

SECTION 4. No employer shall reclassify employee or dutie of 

occupations performed or engage in any other subterfuge for the 

puFpose of defeating the purposes or provisions of the Act or of 

this Code. 
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SECTION 5. All employers shall post copies of Articles III, IV and 

V of this Code in conspicuous places accessible to employees. 

SECTION 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 effecti'e date of this Code. 

SEcTION 7. 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. 

SECTION 8. The manufacture or partial manufacture of any product of the Industry in homes shall be prohibited . 

.ARTICLE VI-AccouNTING-SELLING 

SECTION 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. Any such method shall 

provide means for determining the price at which paper shall be 

charged to the converting division of a combined paper manufacturing and converting plant. When such method 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. 

SECTION 2. The Code Authority may from time to time determine 

that an open price plan of sell1ng such product or products of the 

Industry as it shall specify shall be put into effect on such elate as it 

shall fix. Notice of such detennination shall be announced to all 

known members of the Industry who manufacture such products 

not less than thirty (30) days prior to the date so fixed. 

SECTION 3. At least ten ( 10) 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 a schedule confonning 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. 

SECTION 4. All 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 all discmmts or other deductions have been made, 

whether pertaining to a single order, a commitment for future 

delivery, or a contract. All such original schedules shall become 

effective on the date fixed by the Code Authority as provided in 

Section 2 hereof. 

SECTION 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 n1ember who withdraws a schedule without 

substituting a new schedule therefor shall be deemed to have filed a 
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schedule conforming 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. fa, orable tern1s. Any schedule or notice filed hereunder shall becom.e effective five ( 5) clay after the date of filing7 provided, however, that an increased price may become effective at 

such earlier date as the member filing the same shall fix. 

SECTION 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 pertain to uch 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 same 

product effectiYe as of the same date as the notice of withdrawal of 

such other member. Inun~diately on receipt of information that a 

schedule then on file has been re\ised, or that a new schedule has 

been filed, any m.ember may file a revised schedule conforming a to 

price and terms to the schedule of such other member and ffective 

on the san1.e 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 eel chedule conforming to the 

revised schedule of such other member. 

SECTION 7. No such schedule of price · and terms of sale filed by 

any member, or in effect at any time, shall be such as to pennit 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. 

SECTION 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 

Industry, 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 term$ more favorable than the lowest price 

and mo t favorable·tenns stated in any price schedule for such product then on file. 

SECTION 9. The Code Authority shall furnish at cost to any nonmember requesting then1, copies of any price schedules which have 

been filed with it. Such price schedules shall be made available 

to non-members at the same time that they are sent to members. 1 

SECTION 10. No member shall sell any product of the Industry 

for which no open price plan is in effect at less than the cost thereof 

to such member, determined as provided in Section 11 hereof, except 

to meet the price of a competitor whose price does not violate such 

Section. 

SECTION 11. Cost, for the purpo es of this Article, , hall be determined pursuant to the method of accounting and costing prescribed 

a provided in Section 1 hereo.f as soon as such method is adopted 

and approved, and theretofore pursuant to the method employed 

1 See paragraph 2 of order approving this Code. 
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by such member subj ect to such preliminary rules as the Code Authority ,shall from time to time prescribe with the approval of the 

Administrator. 

SECTION 12. For the purpose of det ermining whether Sections 

7 and 10 hereof have been complied with, every member shall, upon 

the request of the Code Authority, furnish a designated agency 

of the Code Authority, in respect to closed transactions only, with 

complete information in regard to any quotation, order, contract 

or sale of any product o.f the Industry, including information as to 

specifications, quantities, price, conditions of storage, transportation 

or delivery, terms of billing, cash or trade discounts allowed and 

other pertinent facts relating to such quotation, contract or sale. 

SECTION 13. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to prevent the disposition of distress merchand~se required to be sold to 

liquidate a defunct or insolvent business or of discontinued lines, 

damaged goods or seconds, in such manner, at such price and on 

such terms and conditions a,s the Code Authority and the Administrator may approve. 

SECTION 14. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to prevent the fulfillment o.f a bona fide contract existing on the effective 

date of this Code. 

ARTICLE VII-REPORTS AND STATISTICS 

SECTION 1. Ea ch 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 r eceived, unfilled orders, stocks on hand, 

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

employee earnings, hours of work and other matters as the Code 

Authority or the Administrator n1ay from time to time require. 

Any or all information so furnished by any member shall be subject to checking for the purpose of verification by an examination 

of the books, accounts and records of such member by any disinterested accountant or accountants or other qualified person or 

persons designated by the Code Authority. 

SECTION 2. Exc·ept as otherwise provided in the Act, or in this 

Code, all statistics, data and information filed or required in accordance with the provisions of this Code shall 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 as to a void the disclosure of confidential information. 

The Code Authority shall arrange in such manner as it may determine for the currect publication of Industry statistics to members. 

SECTION 3. The Code Authority shall make such reports to the 

Administrator as he may from time to time require. 

SECTION 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. 

Nothing contained in this Code shall relieve any member of any 

existing obligations to furnish reports to any Government Agency. 
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ARTICLE VIII-~IONOPOLIES 

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SECTION 1. No provision of this Code shall be so applied as to 

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

or discriminate against mall enterprises. 

ARTICLE IX-RECOMMENDATIONS 

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

to the Administrator recommendations 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 al'ong the following lines : 

(a) For the establishment of additional rules of Fair Trade Practices for the Industry and for the modification of its Trade Customs, 

and the enforcement thereof. 

(b) For the establishment of plans to equalize production with 

demand. so that the interests of the Indu trv and the p11blic 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 number of Industry members of the Code Authority andj or for a change in the method of 

choosing such members. 

SECTION 2. For the purpo e of as isting the Code Authorities of 

the Paper Manufacturing ancVor Converting 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 Inclu tries 

and shall report its recommendations to the Administrator. 

SECTION 3. Recommendations made pur uant to Sections 1 and 2 

hereof when approved by the Admini trator shall have the ame 

force and effect as other provi ions of this Code. 

ARTICLE X-ThADE PRACTICES 

SECTION 1. The following are hereby constituted Trade Practices 

for the Industry and failure to cOinply with the provi ions thereof ~· hall be a violation of this Code: 

(a) :Members of the Industry shall not practice lleception in 

regard to that which is sold or its selling price by false or misleading de cription, statement, record, or undisclosed consideration. (b) :Members shall refrain from dumping, extension of . tated 

credit and secret rebate ·. (c) :Members shall not ·wilfully injure by falsely lefaming a . competitor's goods, credit, or ability to pedorn1 J1is contract . 

(d) Members shall not 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 value for the purpose of influencing or re,Yarding 

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 knovdedge of 

uch employer, principal or party. The foregoing provision shall 
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not be construed to prohibit free and general distribution of articles 

commonly used for advertising except so far as such articles are 

actually u eel for commercial bribery as herein defined. 

(£) 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. 

ARTICLE XI-GENERA.L PRO\'ISIONS 

SECTION J. I£ any member is also a member of another Industry, 

the provi ions of this Code shall apply to and affect only that part 

of his business which is included in this Industry. 

SECTION 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 Industry. 

SECTION 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 

Aillninistrator be modified and eliminated as changes in circumstances or experi~mce may indicate. 

SECTION 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 

th€ right of the President to cancel or modify his approval of this 

Code or any conditions imposed by him upon his approval thereof. 

SECTION 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. 293. 

Registry No. 404--08. 

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