Registry No. 1702-22 

NATIONAL RECOVERY ADMINISTRATION 

PROPOSED CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

MAIL ORDER FASHION 

STUDIO INDUSTRY 

AS SUBMITTED ON AUGUST 30, 1933 

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The Code for the Mail Order Fashion Studio 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 Recovery Administration 

as applying to this industry 

UNITED STATES 

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 

'.Y ASH IN GTON : 1933 

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For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, Washington, D.C. - - - - - • • - Price 5 cents 
SuBMITTED BY 

MAIL ORDER STUDIO BOARD OF TRADE OF NEW YORK 

(II) 
MAIL ORDER FASHION STUDIO CODE 

To effectuate the policy of Title I of the National Industrial Recov- ery Act, during the period of the emergency, and to assist the President's Recovery Program, and in order to induce and maintain the 

united action of labor and employers under adequate private and 

governmental sanction and supervision, the following provisions are 

established as a code of fair competition for the Mail Order Fashion 

industry. 

1. Definitions.-The term" effective date" as u ed herein is defined 

to be the first Monday following the approval of this code by the 

President. 

The term "persons" as used herein shall include natural persons, 

partnerships, associations, and corporations. 

The term "em.ployer" as used herein shall include every studio 

and/or person (whether individual, partnership, association, or corpora- tion) (a) engaged mainly in the production of women's tyle and wearing apparel drawings for mail order catalogues; and (b) having a separate, distinct, and entirely self-contained department of its general 

commercial art studio, so engaged; in which event, such department 

solely shall be deemed an "employer" hereunder. 

Inasmuch as this industry is a highly specialized one and is concentrated as such specialized industry in the City of New York, no area 

divisions are required since this code, in its application to the parties 

hereto, in the City of New York, automatically and per se contains the 

entire industry in the entire United States. 

2. On and after the effective date hereof, mnployers in this industry 

shall not employ as employees any persons under the age of sixteen 

(16) years. 

3. Except as hereafter provided, on and after the effective date 

herein, employers in this industry shall not operate on a basic schedule 

for their employees in excess of forty and one half 40 )~ ) hours per 

week. Because of the periodic nature of the industry and the intermittent value of the work and active duty even within the "peak 

periods", the necessity for peak periods is hereby expressly recognized, 

and hitherto existent trade practices and contracts may be continued, 

but during all such peak periods any employee required to work in 

excess of the said basic schedule shall be paid at overtime rates, to 

wit: one and one quarter (1 ~). 

4. On and after the effective date hereof the basic minimum wage 

that shall be paid by employers in this industry to any of their employees shall be at the rate of not less than Fifteen ($15 .00) Dollars 

per week, in the case of those employed by the week, and, in the cases 

of employees en1ployed by the hour, not less than Forty ($0.40) 

Cents per hour. 

5. The maximum hours herein fixed shall not apply to employees 

in a managerial or executive capacity who now receive n1ore than 

Thirty-five ($35.00) Dollars per week; nor to employees on emergency 

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maintenan e and repair work· nor to very pecial ca e where restriction of hours of highly skilled worker on continuou pr ce e would 

unavoidably reduce or delay pr duction, but in nny u h pecial ca e 

time. and one fourth hall be paid for hour worked in ex e f th 
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10. All employer rnember of the Association herein mentioned shall 

display the N .R.A. label. All employers as herein defined not members of the A sociation herein mentioned may use the label only if 

they sign and comply with the standards set forth in this code. 

11. Employers in this industry shall comply with the requirements 

of the National Industry Recovery Act, as follows: 

(a) Employees shall have the right to organize and bargain collec- tively through representatives of their own choosing, and hall be 

free from interference, restraint, or coercion of employers of labor, 

or their agents, in the designation of such representatives or in selforganization or in other concerted activities for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection. 

(b) 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, organizing, or assisting a labor organization of his own choosing; and 

(c) That employers shall comply with the maximun1 hours of labor, 

minimum rates of pay, and other conditions of employment approved 

or prescribed by the President. 

12. (a) This code is not designed to promote monopolies and shall 

not be availed of for that purpose. 

(b) The provisions of this code shall not be so interpreted or administered as to eliminate or oppress small enterprises or to discriminate 

against them. 

13. It is agreed by all of the partie hereto that sound economic 

principle require the realization of prices which will include a fair 

average co t plus a reasonable profit. 

14. This code and all the provisions thereof are expressly made 

subject to the right of the President, in accordance with the provision of Clause 10 (b) of the National Industrial Recov ery Act, 

from time to tin1e to cancel or modify any order, approval, license 

rule or regulation, issued under Title I of aid Act, and specifically 

to the right of the President to cancel or n10dify his approval of this 

code or any conditions irnposed by him upon his approval thereof. 

Such of the provisions of this code as are not required to be included therein by the National Industrial Recovery Act may, with 

the approval of the President, be modified or eliminated as changes 

in circumstances of experience may indicate. It is contemplated 

that from time to time supplementary provisions to this code or additional codes will be submitted for approval of the President to prevent 

unfair competition in price and other unfair and destructive competitive practices and to effectuate the other purposes and policies of 

Title I of the National Industrial Recovery Act consistent with the provi~ions hereof. 

MAIL ORDER STUDIO BoARD oF TRADE 

oF NEw YoRK, 

By BERT D. P AGAND, Pre ident. 

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