Approved Code No. 506-Amendment No. 1 Registry No. 1310-09 

NATIONAL RECOVERY ADMINISTRATION 

AMENDMENT TO 

CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

ELECTRIC AND NEON SIGN 

INDUSTRY 

AS APPROVED ON NOVEMBER 24, 1934 

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Approved Code No. 50S-Amendment No. 1 

AMENDMENT TO CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

ELECTRIC AND NEON SIGN INDUSTRY 

As Approved on November 24, 1934 

ORDER 

APPROVING AMENDMENT oF ConE OF FAIR CoMPETITION FOR THE 

ELECTRIC AND NEON SIGN 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 amendment to 

the Code of Fair Competition for the Electric and Neon Sign Industry, an.d due consideration having been given thereon and the 

annexed report on said amendment, containing findings with respect 

thereto, havino· been made and directed to tha. President: 

NO\V, THEREFORE, on behalf of the President of the United 

States, the N ::ttional Industrial Recovery Board pursuant to authority vested in it by Exncutive 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, such approval and such Amendment to take effect fifteen (15) days from 

the date hereof unless good cause to the contrary is shown to the 

National Industrial Recovery Board before that time and said Board 

is. u ~s a subsequent Order to that effect. 

NATIONAL INDUSTRIAL RECOVERY BoARD, 

By W. A. HARRIMAN, Adn~inistrative Officer. 

Approval recommended: 

KrLnouRNE JoHNSToN, 

Division Adm~inistrator. 

I-I. FERRIS wHITE, 

Deputy Admim:strator. 

';y ASHINGTON, D. c., 

N ove1nber 24, 1934. 

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REPORT TO THE PRESIDENT 

The PRESIDEXT, 

The lVhite Ho'U~ . 

Sm: This is a report on the Amendment to Section 2 (a) of Article IV of the Code of Fair Competition for the Electric and Neon 

Sign Industry, submitted by the Temporary Corle Authority of this 

Industry in accordance with the provision ~ of Article VI of said 

Code, approved Augu 't 24, 1934. 

GENERAL STATEMENT 

This Amendment is submitted by the Temporary Code Authority 

of the Indu try in order that the Code may conform to the best policies governing labor in the Industry. 

FINDIKGS 

The Deputy Administrator in his final report to the National Industrial RecoYery Board on said Amendment to said Code, having 

found as herein set forth, and on the basis of all the proceedings in 

this matter: 

Said Board finds that: 

(a) Said Amendment to said Code and the Code as amended are 

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

National Indu trial Recovery Act, including removal of obstruction · 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 purposes of 

cooperative action among the trade groups, by inducing and maintaining united action of labor and management under adequate governmental anctions and supervision, by eliminating unfair competitive practices, by promoting the fullest possible utilization of the 

present productive capacity of industrie , by avoiding undue re.-

triction of production (except as may be temporarily required), b~r 

increasing the consumption of industrial and agricultural products 

through increasing purchasing power, by reducing and relieving 

unemployment, by improving standards of labor, and by otherwi."e 

rehabilitating industry. 

(b) The Code as amended complie in all respect. · with the pertinent provisions of said Title of ail Act, including without limitation Sub ection (a) of Section 3, Subsnction (a) of Section 7, 

and Subsoction (b) of Section 10 thereof. 

(c) The Amendment and the Code as amended are not de igncll 

to and will not permit monopolies or monopolistic practices. 

(d) The Amendment and the Cole a. amended are not de ignccl 

to and will not eliminate or opprn. · mall enterprises and will not 

operate to di criminate again t then1. 

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

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

Amendment. 

For these reasons, therefore, said Board has approved this 

Amendment, such approval and such Amendment to take effect in 

fifteen ( 15) days, unless good cause to the contrary is shown to it 

before that time and it issues a subsequent Order to that effect. 

For the National Industrial Recovery Board: 

N OVE!viBER 24, 1934. 

w. A. HARRil\IAN, 

Administrative Officer. 
~MENDMENT TO CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION FOR 

THE ELECTRIC AND NEON SIGN INDUSTRY 

The Amendment to the Code of Fair Competition for the Electric 

nnd Neon Sign Industry is as follow : 

Article IV, Section 2 (a) which now reads as follows: 

" The term " skilled employee " as used in this Section shall mean 

sign painters, iron workers, sheet metal worker , maintenance men, 

.electricians, glass blowers and pumpers, e:xpres ly excepting therefrom helpers as hereinafter defined" 

js amended to read as follows: 

"No skilled employee shall be paid less than at the rate of seventy- fi ye (75¢.) cents per hour. The term "skilled employee" as used 

in this Section shall mean sign painters, iron workers, sheet metal 

workers, maintenance men, electricians, glass blowers and pumpers, 

expre sly excepting therefTom helpers as hereinafter defined." 

Approved Code No. 506--Am ndment No. 1. 

Registry No. 1310~ 9. 

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