NATIONAL RECOVERY ADMINISTRATION 

CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

LAUNDRY DYEING AND CLEANING 

SUPPLIES INDUSTRY 

AS SUBMITTED ON AUGUST 28, 1933 

REGISTRY No. 1634-01 

The Code for the Laundry Dyeing and Cleaning Supplies Industry 

in its present form merely reflects the proposal of the above-mentioned 

industry, and none of the provisions contained therein are 

to be regarded as having received the approval of 

the National Reco very Administration 

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as applying to this industry 

WE DO OUR PART 

UNITED STATES 

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 

WASHINGTON : 1933 

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NATIONAL INDUSTRIAL RECOVERY CODE FOR THE 

LAUNDRY, DYEING & CLEANING SUPPLIES MANUFACTURING AND DISTRIBUTING INDUSTRY 

To effectuate the policy of Title I, of the National Industrial 

Reco ery Act, the following provisions are established as a National 

Industrial Recovery Code for the Laundry, Dyeing & Cleaning 

upplies Manufacturing and Distributing Industry. 

I-DEFINITIONS 

(a) The term "Laundry, Dyeing & Cleaning Supplies Manufacturing and Distributing Industry," hereinafter referred to as The 

Industry, as used herein is defined to mean the manufacture and/or 

distribution of all Laundry, Dry and Wet Cleaning, and Redyeing 

Supplies for use in Governmental, Commercial, Institutional and Hotel 

Laundry establishments and in dry and wet cleaning and redyeing 

establishments. 

(b) The tern1 "Supplies" is defined to mean all materials of any 

nature used in the processing in the establishments aforementioned, 

excepting machinery, delivery equipment, power-plant equipment, 

fuel, maintenance, and office supplies. 

(c) The term "Person" as used herein shall include natural persons, partnerships, associations, trusts, trustees, trustees in bankrupt y, receivers and corporations. 

(d) The term "Employer" as used herein shall include every person engaged in the manufacture and/or distribution of "Supplies" as 

defined herein. 

(e) The term "Employees" as used herein means all individuals 

employed in The Industry. 

(f) The term "Effective Date" as used herein is defined to be the 

second Monday after this code shall have been approved by the President. 

II-As REQUIRED BY SECTION 7 (a) oF TITLE I OF THE NATIONAL 

INDUSTRIAL REcovERY AcT, THE FoLLOWING PRoVISIONS ARE 

CoNDITIO s oF THIS Co'DE 

(1) That employees shall have the right to organize and bargain 

colle tively 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 purpose of 

collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection; 

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(2) That 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, orgarnzing or assisting a labor organization of 

his own choosing; and 

(3) That employers shall comply with the maximum hours of labor, 

minimum rates of pay, and other conditions of employment, approved ,or prescribed by the President. 

III 

On and after the effective date employers shall not employ any 

person under the age of 16 years. 

IV 

(a) On and after the effective date the minimum wage that shall 

be paid by any employer to any employee engaged in the processing 

of supplies in The Industry and in labor operations directly incident 

thereto shall be 40 cents per hour, provided, however, that casual 

and incidental laborers and learners may be paid not less than 80% 

of such minimum wage, and further provided that the total number 

of such casual and incidental laborers and learners shall not exceed 

in any calendar month 10% of the total number of process workers. 

(b) On and after the effective date of this Code the minimum wage 

that shall be paid by any employer to any other employee shall be 

at the rate of $14.00 per week provided, however, that office boys 

and/or girls, learners, and casual employees may be paid not less than 

80% of such minimum wage, and further provided that the total 

number of such office boys and/or girls, learners, and casual employees 

shall not exceed 10% of the total number of such employees covered 

by the provisions of this paragraph (b). 

(c) The minimum rates of wages provided in this Article shall apply 

to all employees in cities of 250,000 and over. They shall apply in 

all other localities unless the Administrator or his representative shall 

fix a lower rate for particular localities. 

V-EMPLOYERs SHALL NOT OPERATE oN A ScHEDULE OF HouRs 

(a) On and after the effective date, for employees engaged in the 

processing of supplies in The Industry and in labor operations directly 

incident thereto in excess of an average of 40 hours per week during 

any six months' period, or in excess of 48 hours in any one week. 

(b) On and after the effective date for all other employees, except 

executive, administrative, and supervisory employees and outside 

sales and service staff in excess of an average of 40 hours per week 

during any six months' period or in excess of 48 hours in any one week: 

Provided, however, That these limitations shall not apply to those 

branches of The Industry in which seasonal or peak demand places 

an unusual and temporary burden for production or distribution upon 

such branches; in such cases no employee shall be required to work 

more than an aggregate of 144 hours per year in excess of the aggregate 

maximum hours hereinbefore provided, and provided further that 

such limitations shall not apply in cases of emergency. At the end of 

each calendar month every employer shall report to the Supervisory 
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gen y, b reinaft r provided for, in u h detail a may be required, 

the number of man-hour worked in that m nth for emergen y rea ons 

and th ratio whi h aid emergen y man-h ur bear to the total number 

<>f man-hours of labor during said month. 

VI 

The Board of Directors of the Laundry and Cleaners Allied Trades 

.Association is hereby designated the Supervisory Agency for administering and promoting the performance of the provisions of this Code 

by the members of The Industry. A Code Control Committee responsible to the Supervisory Agency and consisting of no fewer than 

five persons shall have active charge of the administration of this 

Code. The Code Control Committee may delegate to such person 

or persons the necessary authority to administer any provision of this 

Code. If formal complaint is made to Laundry and Cleaners Allied 

Trades Association that the provisions of this Code have been violated 

by any employer, the Code Control Committee shall investigate the 

facts and to that end may cause such an audit to be made as may be 

deemed necessary. 

VII 

With a view to keeping the President and the Administrator informed as to the observance or nonobservance of this Code and as 

to whether The Industry is taking appropriate steps to effectuate in 

all respects the declared policy of the National Industrial Recovery 

Act, each employer shall prepare and file with such person or organization as the Code Control Committe-e may designate and at such 

times and in such manner as may be prescribed statistics of number 

of persons employed, wage rates, employee earnings, hours of work, 

costs, prices quoted, prices received, and such other similar statistical 

data as the Code Control Committee may from time to time require. 

VIII 

Except as otherwise provided in the National Industrial Recovery 

Act, all statistical data filed in accordance with the provisions of 

Article VII of this Code shall be confidential and the data of one 

employer shall not be revealed to any other employer except that 

for the purpose of administering or enforcing the provisions of this 

Code the Code Control Committee by its duly authorized representative or representatives (who shall not be in the employ of any employer 

affected by this Code) shall have access to statistical data that may 

be furnished in accordance with the provisions of this Code. 

IX 

Every employer shall use an accounting system and a cos tin~ system 

which conforms to the principles of and is at least as detailed and 

complete as the uniform and standard method of accounting and the 

uniform and standard method of costing to be formulated or approved 

by the Code Control Committee, with such variations therefrom as 

may be required by the individual conditions affecting any employer 
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or group of employers and as may be approved by the Code Control 

Committee and made supplemental to the said formulated or approved 

methods of accounting and costing. The Code Control Committee 

may investigate the cost methods in the Industry and its variOus 

branches to determine the formula which it will prescribe. 

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No employer shall sell or exchange any supplies at a price ~r upon 

such terms or conditions that will result in the customer paying for 

the goods received, less than the cost to the seller determined in 

accordance with the uniform and standard method of costing as hereinabove provided for; excepting that obsolete and/or damaged supplies 

n1ay be disposed of in such manner and on such terms and conditions 

as the Code. Control Committee may approve. 

XI 

As it has been the generally recognized practice in The Industry tosell supplies on the basis of price lists with discount sheets and fixed 

terms of payment, each employer as the Code Control Committee 

may require shall within ten (10) days after the Effective Date file 

with the Code Control Committee such price lists and/or discount. sheets individually prepared by him showing current prices and/or 

discounts and terms of payment, and the Code Control Committee 

shall immediately send copies thereof to all known employers in The 

Industry who are known to be affected. Revised price lists and/or 

discount sheets covering any specific product may be filed from time to 

time thereafter by any employer with the Code Control Committee· to be effective on the date specified therein, which shall be not fewer 

than five days after such filing, and copies thereof shall be immediately 

sent to all known employers known to be affected who thereupon may 

file, if they so desire, revisions of their price lists and/or discount sheets. which shall become effective upon the date when the revised price list 

and/or discount sheet first filed go into effect. No employer shall sell,. 

directly or indirectly, by any means whatsoever any supplies of The 

Industry at a price lower or at discounts greater or on more favorable· terms of payment that those provided in his current price lists an-d/or 

discount·sheets on file with the Code Control Committee. 

XII' 

Any employer may- participa-te in any endeavors of Laundry and 

Cleaners Allied Trades Association in the preparation of any revisions. of, or additions or supplements to, this Code by accepting the proper 

share of the cost and responsibility of creating and administering it, 

either by becoming a member of Laundry and Cleaners Allied Trades 

Association or by paying to it an amount equal to the dues from time to 

time provided to be paid by a member in like situation of Laundry 

and Cleaners Allied Trades Association. 
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XIII 

The f llowing ar declared to be unfair method of ompetition in 

h Indu try: 

1. Th r t payment or allowan of rebates, refund , commi - wn or un urn di count , wh ther in the form of money or oth rr tly extending to c rtain purchasers special ser i es r 

privile not xtended to all purchasers under like term and 

condi ion . 2. Dir tly or indirectly, to give or permit to be given, or offer to 

g.1 , mon y or anything of value to agents, employees or repre entatl of u tomer or prospective customers, or to agents, mploye , orr pre n utive of competitor 'customers or prospective customer , to infiuen e their emplo ers or principals to purchase or contract to 

purcha e industry products from the maker of such gift or offer, or to 

influence uch en1ployers or principals to refrain from dealing or contra ting to deal with competitors. 

3. Willfully inducing or attempting to induce the breach of eJ.:isting 

contracts between competitors and their customers by any false or 

decepti e means whatsoever, or interfering with or obstructing the 

performance of any such contractual duties or services by any such 

means. 

4. Willfully enticing away the employees of competitors with the 

purpose and e:ff ct of unduly hampering, injuring, or embarra sing 

competitors in their businesses. 

5. Defamation of competitor by falsely imputing to them di - honorable conduct, inability to perform contract , que tionabl credit 

tandino-, or by other false repre entation or the fal e di parag ment 

f the grade or quality of their good . 6. The making, or cau ing or permitting to be mad or publi h d, 

f ny fal e, untrue, or deceptive tatement by way of adverti ement 

r therwi e concerning the grade, quantity, quality, ub tan , hara t r, nature, origin, ize, or pr paration of any produ t of the 

indu trv. 

7. \Vithholding from or in erting in the invoice statements which 

make h in oic fal e r cord, wholly or in part, of the tran a tion 

r pr nt d on th fa e ther of; dating an invoice more than three 

(3 ) da af r dat of bipment . . Intimidating u tom r of all ged infringers by the owner of a 

p n r trad m rk. 

elling on term be t r than 2% lOth of following month, 60 . . . at the nd of 7 5 d y e:ffecti e a of the ffectiYe 

ode· or on t rms bett r than 2%30 day , net 60, .O.D. 

n f 7 la o t-to- oa t hipm nt ff ti a of th 

ff iv lat of thi o . 

1 . Th unau h riz d u e ith r in written or or l form of trad 

mark , rad nam , logan or ad rti ing matt r alr ady adopt d 

y omp itor, i a iolation of thi de. 

XIV 

The Pr id nt may from im to tim can l or mo ify any rder, 

appro al, li en , rul , r r gulati n i u d und r Title I of the 

ational Indu trial e o ry \.c . 
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Such of the provisions of this Code as are not required by theN ationa! Industrial Recovery Act to be included herein, may, with the 

approval of the President, be modified or eliminated as changed circumstances or experience may indicate. This Code is intended to be 

a basic code and study of the trade practices of The Industry will be 

continued by the Laundry and Cleaners Allied Trades Association 

with the intention of submitting from time to time additions or supplements to this Code, such additions or supplements, however, to be 

consistent with the provisions of this Code. 

XVI 

If any employer of labor in The Industry is also an employer of labor 

in any other industry, the provisions of this Code shall apply to and 

affect only that part of his business which is included in The Industry, 

as defined herein. 

LAUNDRY AND CLEANERS ALLIED. TRADES 

AssociATION, 393 SEVENTH A VENUE. 

NEw YoRK, N.Y., August 18, 1933. 

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