Approved Code No. GO-Amendment No.8 Registry No. 1625-2-02 

NATIONAL RECOVERY ADMINISTRATION 

AMENDMENT TO 

CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

RETAIL TRADE 

AS APPROVED ON JANUARY 2, 1935 

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Approved Code No. 60-Amendrnent No. 8 

AMENDMENT TO CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

RETAIL TRADE 

As Approved on January 2, 1935 

ORDER 

APPROVING AMENDMENT OF CoDE OF FAIR CoMPETITION FOR THE 

RETAIL 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, approved June 16, 1933, for approval of an amendment to the Code of Fair Competition for the Retail Trade, and hearings having been duly held 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 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 amended to include an approv.al of said Code in its entirety 

as amended, such approval and such amendment to take effect ten 

(10) days from the date hereof, unless good cause to the contrary is 

hown to the National Industrial Recovery Board before that time 

and theN ation.al Industrial Recovery Board issues a subsequent order 

to that effect. 

NATIONAL INDUSTRIAL RECOVERY BoARD, 

By W. A. HARRIMAN, Ad1ninistrative Officer. 

AI proval r commended: 

HARRY C. CARR, . Acting Division Administrator. 

'"T A HINGTON, D. C., 

January lB, 1935. 

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REPORT TO THE PRESIDENT 

The PRESIDENT, 

The 1Vhite House. 

SrR: The H earing on the amendment to the Code of Fair Com.petition for the Retail Trade was held on August 27, 1934 in Room 

#2062, Department of Commerce Building. The amendment, which 

is attached, wa presented by duly qualified and authorized r epresentatives of the Trade, complying with statutory requirement , ·uch 

representatives being members of the National Retail Code Authority, Inc. In accordance with the cu tomary procedure, everyone pre ent who 

had filed a request for an appearance wa freely heard in public, 

and all statutory and regulatory requirements were complied with. 

The Deputy Administrator in hi fin al report to the National Indu trial Recovery Board on said amendment to said Code having 

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

matter; 

It finds 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 purpo e 

of cooperative action of labor and management under adequate goverm11ental sanction and supervision, by eliminating unfair competitive practices, by promoting the fulle t 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) The Code as amended complies in all respects with the pertinent provisions of said Title of said Act, including without limitation 

sub-section (a) of Section 3, sub-section (a) of Section 7 and subsection (b) of Section 10 thereof. 

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

and will not permit monopolies or monopolistic practices. 

(d) 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. 

(e) Those engaged in other steps of the economic proce s have not 

been deprived of the right to be heard prior to the approval of said 

amendment. 

For these reasons, said amendment to the Code of Fair Competition for the Retail Trade has been approved. 

For the National Industrial Recovery Board: 

JANUARY 2, 1935. 

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w. A. HARRIMAN, 

Administrati-ve Officer. 
A~1ENDMENT TO CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION FOR 

THE RETAIL TRADE 

Article V, Section 4 (a) shall be amended to read as follows: 

(a) P1·o{essional persons, watchmen, guards, store detectives, outside salesmen arnd outside collecto1·s.-The maximum hours of labor 

prescribed in Section 1 of this Article shall not apply to professional 

persons, employed and working at their profession, who receive 

salaries that are not less than the salaries prescribed for executives 

in paragraph (c) of this Section, or to watchmen, guards, store. detectives, out ide salesmen, and outside collectors; but watchmen 

and guards shall not work more than fifty-six (56) hours in any 

one week, nor more than thirteen (13) days in any fourteen (14) 

day period. 

Approved Code No. 60-Amendment No. 8. 

Registry No. 16..:.'5-2-02. 

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