Registry No. 930-1-01 

NATIONAL RECOVERY ADMINISTRATION 

C·ODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

LEATHER INDUSTRY 

AS REVISED ON AUGUST 23, 1933 

AND 

AS APPROVED ON SEPTEMBER 7, 1933 

BY 

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT 

WE DO OUR PART 

, 

1. Executive Order of President Roosevelt 

2. Report of Administrator 

3. Report of Deputy Administrator 

4. Text of Code 

WASHINGTON : 1933 

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SUBMITTED BY 

TANNERS COUNCIL OF A~IERICA 

(IT) 
EXECUTIVE ORDER-CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION- LEATHER 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 my approval of a Code of 

Fair Competition for the Leather Industry, and hearings having been 

held thereon and the Administrator having rendered his report containing an analysis of the said Code of Fair Competition together 

with his recommendations and findings with respect thereto, and the 

Administrator having found that the said Code of Fair Competition complies in all respects with the pertinent provisions of Title I 

of said Act and that the requirements of clauses (1) and (2) of sub- section (a) of Section 3 of the said Act have been met: 

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. RoosEVELT, President of 

the United States, pursuant to the authority vested in me by Title I 

of the National Industrial Recovery Act, approved June 18, 1933, and 

otherwise, do adopt and approve the report, recommendations, and 

findin&s of the Administrator and do orcJ.er that the said Code of 

F air Competition be and is hereby approved. 

Approval Recommended: 

HuGHS. JoHNSON, 

Administrator. 

THE WHITE HousE, 

S eptember 7, 1933. 

10225 °-33 

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, 

President. 

(III) 
The PRE IDEXT, 

NATIONAL RECOVERY AD-;\IINI TRATION' 

Washington, D.O., Septembe?' 1, 1933. 

The lVhite House, lVashington, D.O. 

}tfy DEAR 1.IR. PRE IDENT: This is a report of the hearing on the 

Code of Fair Competition for the Leather Indu try in the United 

States, conducted in W a hington on August 21, 1933, in accordance 

with the pro vi ions of the National Indu_trial Recovery Act. 

The following exhibits are included and attached : 

(1) Final Code submitted. 

(2) Notice of Hearing. 

(3) Statistical Analysis by Research and Planning Di ISion. 

( 4) Transcript of the records. 

( 5) List of \Vitnesses. 

.. PROVISIONS OF THIS CODE AS TO WAGES AND HOURS 

ARTICLE IV-WAGES 

1. Except as noted in Paragraph 4 of this Article, no employee 

in the states of l\1aryland, West Virginia, Virginia, 1\:entucky, Tenne see, North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mis issippi, Florida, Arkansas, Loui iana, Oklahoma, Texas New 1.Iexico, or Arizona, shall 

be paid less than 32lj2¢ per hour. El ewhere in the United States 

no female employee shall be paid less than 35¢ per hour, no 1nale 

employee le s than 40¢ per hour. Unskilled labor receiving in excess 

of the e minimum rates hall not be reduced. 

2. The foregoing minimum rate are not a discrimination by reason of sex but becau e of difference in the work of the indu try. 

\Vhere women do the same kind and amount of work as men they 

shall receive the same wages. 

3. No employee earning le s than 30 dollars per week shall receive 

le for 40 hour work than he was receiving as of April 1, 1933, for 

the establi heel \fork week at that time. 

4. Exceptions to the above minimum rates are learners for a period 

up to six week who shall receive not le than 80% of the minimum; 

and employee disabled by ol~ age or other can es employed in the 

plant; neither class to exceed 1n number 5% of the pay roll. 

5. Thi Article establi hes a guaranteed minimum rate of pay, 

regardless of whether the employee is compen ated on a time or 

piecework ba is. 

ARTICLE VI-Houns 

1. No employer hall employ any per on except as hereafter mentioned over 40 hours average in any 26 week ' period not over 40 

hours in any week except by payment of llh rate for overtime, nor 

over 8 hours in any day except by payment of 1lj3 for overtime. 

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2. From the provisions of paragraph one the following classes 

shall be excepted : 

(a) 'iVatchmen, supervisory staff, executives, and salesmen. (b) Maintenance workers, engineers, firemen, beltmakers, emer~ 

gency service workers, patent leather luggers and sorters of whole 

leather, who may not work over 40 hours in any one week, except 

by payment of 11/3 rate for overtime, nor over 8 hours in any one 

day except by payment of 1¥3 rate for overtime. 

(c) Office workers whose maximum working hours shall be an 

average of 40 hours a week over a 26-week period. 

3. Further exceptions as to hours shall apply to any emergency 

situation which may arise whereby the product of the employer may 

be spoiled or destroyed while in a perishable condition, and in such 

cases the employer shall be empowered to put such product through 

his regular processes into a nonperishable condition, and for such 

emergency, overtime shall be paid as provided for the groups o£ 

workers designated in Paragraphs 1 and 2 (b) of this Article. 

4. There shall be no evasion of this Code by reclassification 

of the function of workers. A worker shall not be included in one 

of the above exceptions unless the identical functions which he 

performs were identically classified on June 16, 1933. 

5. For the purpose of this section, the first 26 weeks' period for 

each employee in the employment of any mem_ber of the industry at 

the effective date hereof shall begin with such date. The first 26 

weeks' period for any employee hereafter employed shall begin with 

the date of employment with such employer. 

6. The provisions for maximum hours set out in this section 

establish a maximum number of hours of labor per week for each 

employee so that under no circumstances shall any employee knowingly be employed or permitted to work for one or more employers 

in the industry in the aggregate in excess of the prescribed number of 

hours. 

ECONOMIC EFFECT OF THE CODE 

The maximum work week set at 40 hours, with practically no 

exemptions, is eminently satisfactory in view of the number of per- sons whose reemployment it will affect. Over 80% of the workers 

at current levels of operation will have their hours of labor shortened 

by this provision, and total employment in the Industry will rise 

again to the 1929 peak levels, 52,000 employees in leather tanning 

alone, without any further increase in business. If business expands, 

as we expect it to, the employment will soon exceed even the 1929 

peak for the Industry. If we should go any further in shortening 

the hours of work in this Industry, there would be considerable 

danger of creating severe shortages of suitable types of trained labor 

in many plants, particularly those located in isolated rural communities. 

The wage provisions in the Leather Code are perhaps not ideal, 

but they certainly effect the best possible compromise in view of the 

existing differentials in the Industry and the ability of the Industry 

to bear its share of the N.R.A. program of expanding purchasing 

power. 
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Under the Code in only two sections of the Industry will wages 

be below the 19~9 level and in the e cases the difference is a matter 

of less than 10%, while the increase in the Code levels over l.Vlay, 

June, 1933 ranges from 22 to 62%. It i estilnated that the average 

increase over early 1933 will be 30 or 35% in hourly earnings, and 

that compared with 1929 the wages under the Code will deviate less 

than 5%. Since this sharp increase in wages will be accomplished 

at no reduction in the number employed, the increa e in purchasing 

power will amount to between 30 and 35% from :.May, June, 1933, 

as a base. 

The North-South differential, although it is not as large as that 

created in the Steel, Lumber, and Shipbuilding Codes, is greater than 

the differential proposed in the Cotton Textile Code, and a few others. 

The 7%¢ differential in the Leather Code is in our opinion, the 

smalle t differential which could be in1po ed without running a grave 

risk of closing down a substantial portion of southern tanneries and 

forcing all southern tanneries to discharge their pre ent negro labor 

and substitute for it more competent labor (white) which is available 

in their communities. We feel that a hiaher minimum in the South 

would work a grave injury to the negro and we should like to 

avoid it. 

The female differential might well be reduced; in fact, the pro~ 

ponents of the Code do not object strenuou ly w eliminating it 

entirely. However, it is a fact that the demand for women in the 

Industry is of such a character that any reduction in differential 

below 5¢ would throw several thousand women out of work, turning 

over their jobs to literally a few score men who would take their 

places with " seasoning " machines. Since. thi would tend to defeat 

the purposes of the Administration, we do not feel it wise to reduce 

the female differential below 5¢. 

In con idering the Leather Code, it must be remen1bered that all 

the provisions in it have been worked out as a coordinated organic 

whole, and that any changes in any provisions will make necessary 

readju tments in the other provi ions in order not to work grave 

injury to individuals and sections of the Indu try. For example, any 

clause prohibiting the reduction of total weekly earnings below the 

total amount earned in a given week in the past might in1pose in1pos~ 

sibly heavy burdens upon a few leather companies that were working 

as long as 60 hours even during the depression. A modifying clause 

of thi nature would force either widespread eva ion of the spirit of 

the Act by the hiring of new employee to displace old workers, who, 

by virtue of this provision were being paid 50% above the minin1wn 

rate for common labor, or it would force the companies involved to 

close their tanneries and open up elsewhere. 

FINDINGS 

The Administrator finds that: 

(a) The Code as recommended complies in all respects with the 

pertinent provisions of Title I of the Act, including, without limitation, sub, ection (a) of Section 7 and subsection (b) of Section 10 

thereof; and that 
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.(b) The applicant group imposes no ineqnitable restrictions on admisswn to membership therein and is truly repre entative of the 

Leather Indu try; and that 

(c) The Code as recommended is not de igned to promote monopolie or to eliminate or oppres small enterprises and will not operate 

to discriminate again t them, and will ten l to effectuate the policy 

of Title I of the National Industrial Recovery Act. 

It is recommended, therefore, that this Code be immediately adopted. 

Respectfully submitted. 

HuGH S. JOHNSON, Adm,inistrator. 

NATIONAL RECOVERY ADMIN! TRATION' 

Washington, D.O., August 28, 1933. 

To: General H GH S. JOHN oN, Administrator, 

From : General C. C. W ILLIA:M , 

Subject: Report on the Code of Fair Competition for the Leather 

Industry. 

This is a report of the hearing on the Code of Fair Competition 

:for the Leather Industry of the United States, conducted in Washington on the 21st of August 1933 in accordance with the provisions 

of the National Recovery Act. 

The :following exhibits are included and attached: 

A. Reports submitted by-

(1) Industrial Advisory Board. 

(2)' Consumers' Advisory Board. 

(3) Labor Advisory Board. 

(4) Legal Division. 

( 5) Research and Planning Division.* 

B. The Code* as finally proposed, revised, and accepted by the 

Leather Industry. 

PROVISIONS OF Tr-ns CoDE As TO WAGES AND HouRs 

ART. IV. 1. "Except as noted in Paragraph 4 of this Article, no 

employee in the States of Maryland, \Ve t Virginia, Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, 

Florida, Arkan as, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, or 

Arizona shall be paid le~s than 32¥2¢ per hour. Elsewhere in the 

United States no female employee shall be paid less than 35¢ per 

hour, no male employee less than 40¢ per hour. Unskilled labor 

receiving in excess of these minimum rates shall not be reduced. 

"2. The foregoing minimum rates are not a discrimination by 

rea on of sex, but because of difference in the work of the industry. 

Where women do the same kind and amount of work as men they 

shall receive the same wages. 

"3. No employee earning less than 30 dollars per week shall receivo 

less for 40 hours' work than he was receiving as of April 1, 1933, for 

the established work-week at that time. 

• This is included in the group of papers for submission to the President and is not 

duplicated herein. 
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"4. Exceptions to the above minimum rates are learners for a 

period up to ix weeks, who shall receive not less than 80% of the 

minimum; and emplo rees di a bled by old age or other cause employed in the plant; neither class to exceed in number 5% of the 

pay roll. 

"5. This Article e tablishes a guaranteed minimum rate of pay, 

regardless of whether the employee is compensated on a time or 

piecework basis." 

ART. VI. "1. No employer shall employ any per on except as hereafter mentioned over 40 hours average in any 26 weeks period, not 

over 40 hours in any week except by payment of 1V3 rate for overtime, nor over 8 hours in any day except by payment of 11/3 rate for 

overtime. 

" 2. From the provisions of paragraph one the following classes 

shall be excepted: 

" (a) 'iV atchmen, supervisory staff, executives, and salesmen. 

" (b) Maintenance workers, engineers, firemen, beltmakers, emergency service workers, patent-leather luggers, and sorters of whole 

leather, who 1nay not work over 40 hours in any one week, except 

by payment of 1113 rate for overtim.e, nor over 8 hours in any one 

day except by payment of 1¥3 rate for overtime. 

" (c) Office workers whose maximum working hours shall be an 

average of 40 hours a week over a 26-week period. 

"3. Further exceptions as to hours shall apply to any emergency 

situation which may arise whereby the product of the employer may 

be spoiled or destroyed while in a perishable condition, and in such 

cases the employer shall be empowered to put such product through 

his regular proce ses into a nonperishable condition, and for such 

emergency overtime shall be paid as provided for the groups o:f 

workers designated in Paragraphs 1 and 2 (b) of this Article. 

" 4. There shall be no evasion of this Code by reclas ification of 

the function of workers. A worker shall not be included in one of 

the above exceptions unless the identical function which he performes were identically cla sified on June 16, 1933. 

" 5. For the purpose of this section, the first 26 weeks period 

for each employee in the employn~ent of any member of the industry 

at the effective date hereof shall begin with such date. The first 26 

weeks period for any emplo} ee hereafter employed shall begin with 

the date of employment with such employer. 

' 6. The provisions for maximum hour set out in this section establi h a maximum number of hours of labor per week for each employee so that under no circumstances shall any employee knowingly 

be employed or permitted to work for one or more employers in the 

industry in the aggregate in excess of the prescribed number o:f 

hours." 

FINDINGS 

The Deputy Administrator finds that: 

(a) The Code as recommended complies in all respects with the 

pertinent provisions of Title I of the Act, including~ without limitation, sub ection (a) of Section 7 and sub ection (b) of Section 10 

thereof; and that 
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(b) The applicant group impo es no inequitable restrictions on 

admission to member ·hip therein and is truly representative of the 

Leather Industry; and that 

(c) The Code as recommended is not designed to prmnote monopolies or to eliminate or oppress small enterprises and will not operate to discriminate against them, and will tend to effectuate the 

policy of Title I of the National Industrial Recovery Act. 

From evidence adduced during this hearing and from recommendations and r eports of the various Advisory Boards it is believed that 

this Code as now proposed and revised represents an effective, practical, equitable solution for this indu try and its approval as herewith submitted is recommended. 

Respectfully submitted. 

C. C. WILLIAMS. Deputy Administrator. 
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CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION FOR THE LEATHER 

INDUSTRY 

ARTICLE I-PURPOSE 

For the purpose of effectuating the policy of Title I of the 

National Industrial Recovery Act, the following provisions are estab .. 

lished as a code of fair competition for the leather industry. 

ARTICLE II-DEFil\TITIONS 

The term" leather industry" shall be held to comprise all persons 

engaged in tanning or finishing leather, for further fabrication or 

for sale, for their own account or for the account of others, or performing any operation subsidiary thereto, or having leather tanned 

or finished in American factories, or engaged in the sale of American tanned or finished leather for their own account or for the 

account of others, and persons, approved by the National Recovery 

Administration, engaged in the cutting or further partial fabrication 

of leather. 

The term "employer" as used herein shall mean any member of 

the industry. The term "employee" as used herein shall mean any person 

employed in any phase of the industry. 

The term "effective date" as used herein is defined to be the 

second Monday after the approval by the President, this period 

being necessary to protect perishable products in process. 

The term "persons" shall include natural persons, partnerships, 

associations, trusts, and corporations. 

ARTICLE III-APPLICATION 

All members of the industry shall comply with the provisions o:f 

this code and are eligible for membership in the Tanners' Council of 

America, and/or any divisional trade association now existing or 

which may be organized with the approval of the National Recovery 

Administration for any branch of the leather industry for the purpose of administering this code. Such organization or organizations 

have not and shall not set up inequitable restrictions as to membership and shall be truly representative. 

ARTICLE IV-VV AGES 

1. Except as noted in Paragraph 4 of this Article, no employea 

in the States of Mary land, vVest Virginia, Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, 

Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, or Arizona 

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shall be paid less than 321/2¢ per hour. El ewhere in the United 

States no female employee hall be paid le s than 35¢ pe.r hour, no 

male employee less than 40¢ per hour. Un killed labor receiving 

in exce s of these minimum rates hall not be reduced. 

2. The foregoing minimum rates are not a di crimination by 

reason of sex but becau e of difference in the work of the industry. 

"'\i\1lere women do the same kind and amount of work as men they 

shall receive the same wages. 

3. No employee earning le s than 30 dollars per week shall re- ceive le for 40 hours work than he was receiving as of April 1, 

1933, for the establi hed work week at that time. 

4. Exceptions to the above minimum rates are learners for a 

perio l up to six weeks who shall receive not less than 80% of 

the minimum; and employees disabled by old age or other causes 

employed in the plant; neither class to exceed in number 5% of 

the pay roll. 

5. This Article establishes a guaranteed minimum rate of pay 

regardless of whether the employee is compensated on a time or 

piecework basis. 

ARTICLE V-CHILD LABOR 

On and after the effective date employer in the Leather Industry 

shall not employ or retain any minor under the age of sixteen years, 

provided however, that where a State law provides a higher mini- mum age, no person below the age specified by such State law shall 

be employed by the Trade or Industry within that State. 

ARTICLE VI-HoURs 

1. No employer shall employ any per on except as hereafter mentioned over 40 hours average in any 26 weeks' period, not over 40 

hours in any week except by payment of 11;3 rate for overtime, nor 

over 8 hours in any day except by payment of 11;3 rate for overtime. 

2. From the provisions of paragraph one the following classes shall 

be excepted : 

(a) "'\Yatchmen, supervisory staff, executive and salesmen. 

(b) :Maintenance workers, engineers, firemen, beltmakers, emergency ervice workers patent leather luggers and sorters of whole 

leather who may not work o\er 40 hour in any one week except by 

payment of 11/3 rate for oYertime nor over 8 hours in any one day 

except by payment of 11/3 rate for oYertime. 

(c) Office workers who e maximum working hours hall be an average of 40 hours a week over a 26-week period. 

3. Further exceptions as to hours hall apply to any emergency 

situation which may arise whereby the pro 1uct of the employer may 

be . poiled or destroyed while in a peri hable condition, and in such 

ca es the employer shall be empowered to put such product through 

his regular proce s into a nonperi hable condition, and for such 

emergency overtime shall be paid as provided for the groups of 

worker designated in Paragraphs 1 and 2 (b) of this Article. 

4. There hall be no eva ion of this Code by reclas ification of the 

functions of workers. A worker shall not be included in one of the 
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above exceptions unless the identical functions which he performs 

were identically cia sified on June 16, 1933. 

5. For the purpose of this section, the first 26 weeks' period for 

each employee in the employment of any member of the industry at 

the effective date hereof shall begin with such date. The first 26 

weeks' period for any employee hereafter employed shall begin with 

the date of employment with such employer. 

6. The provisions for maximum hours set out in this section establish a maximum number of hours of labor per week for each employee so that under no circumstances shall any employee knowingly 

be employed or permitted to work for one or more employers in the 

indu try in the aggregate in excess of the prescribed number of 

hours. 

ARTICLE VII-STATISTICS 

The leather industry, through the Tanners' Council of America, 

No. 41 Park Row, New York, N.Y., shall collect and compile all 

reports required by the National Industrial Recovery Act. Every 

member of the industry shall furnish such reports as are required 

pursuant to the provisions thereof. 

ARTICLE VIII-STATUTORY PROVISIONS 

All employers in the industry shall comply with the following 

provisions of the National Industrial Recovery Act: 

1. That employees shall have the right to organize and bargain 

collectively through representatives of their own choosing, and shall 

be free from the interferences, 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; 

2. That no employee and no one seeking employment shall be required a~ 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 

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 .. 

ARTICLE IX-PRICE ADJUSTMENTS 

Where the costs of executing contracts entered into by the Leather 

Industry are increased by the application of the provisions of the 

code it is equitable and promotive of the purpose of the National 

Industrial Recovery Act that appropriate adjustments of such con- tracts to reflect such increased costs be arrived at by mutual agreement, arbitral proceedings, or otherwise. 

ARTICLE X-PLANNING COMMITTEES 

For the purpose of carrying into effect the policies set forth in 

the National Industrial Recovery Act, the Board of Directors of 
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the Tanners' Council of America from time to time, subject to the 

approval of the National Recovery Administration, shall classify 

all members of the industry into divisions, each of which shall be 

truly repre entative of its branch of the leather industry. One representative from each division shall be elected, according to its own 

rules, to a General Planning Committee, which shall constitute the 

coordinating agency for the divisions of the Industry. 

The General Planning Committee so organized is hereby constituted the agency for cooperating with the Admini tration or the 

Administrator as an administrative planning and fair- practice 

agency for the Leather Industry. Such agency may from time to 

time present to the Administrator recommendations ba eel on condition in the industry as they may develop which will tend to effectuate the operations of the provisions of this code and the policy 

of the National Industrial Recovery Act. The President may 

appoint three members for the General Planning Committee, who 

shall not be entitled to vote. The Chairman of the Board of 

Directors of the Tanners' Council of America shall pre ide over this 

Committee without vote. 

No decisions of the General Planning Committee shall be binding 

unle concurred in by two third of the members thereof entitled to 

vote and by representatives of divisions employing two thirds of 

the total employees of the industry as recorded by the Tanners' 

Council of America for the last six months for which figures are 

available. 

Each division of the leather industry shall elect its own separate 

and distinct Divisional Planning Committee, and each such 

Divi ional Planning Committee shall present in writing recommendation or recommendations to every member of the General Planning Committee twenty days before such recommendation or recommendations become effective. If the General Planning Committee 

fail to disapprove of such recommendation or recommendations, they 

shall be deemed approved. If the General Planning Committee disapprove thereof then and in that event the Divisional Planning Committee hall be entitled to pre ent its recommendation or recommen· 

dation to the Admini trator for his approval. Such division may 

of it own election carry out the recommendation or recommendations 

of it planning committee, all to the end that each clivi ion hall be 

independent and self-governing in all problems relating exclusively 

to nch diYision. Rerommendations put into effect under this paragraph and the operation thereof shall be subject to the approval of 

the Administrator. 

ARTICLE XI-IMPORTATIONS 

In accordance with ection 3 of the National Indu trial Recovery 

A t, the Leather Indu try throuo·h the General Planning Committee, 

in due cmu· e and from time to time as occa ion may ari e may submit complaints to the Pre ident of the United tates with reference 

to importations of leather in competition with the dome tic product, 

for uch tep. und r the National Indu. trial Recovery Act to be 

taken by the Admini tration and in order that uch importations 

may not defeat the purpo es of the National Indu trial Recovery 
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Act and the provisions of this code in the furtherance thereof. The 

General Pla1ming Committee, when any Divisional Planning Committee may have asked for action under Section 3 of the Act referred 

to, shall follow the rules agreed to in this code. 

ARTICLE XII- MONOPOLIES 

No provision in this Code shall be interpreted or applied in such 

a manner as to: (1) Promote monopolies; (2) Permit or encourage 

unfair competition; (3) Eliminate, oppress, or discriminate against 

small enterprises. 

ARTICLE XIII-DESIGNS 

No member of the indu try shall imitate or simulate within one 

year from date of registration, any new embossed or decorative design or pattern originated by any other member of the industry and 

registered with the Tanners' Council of America, or its designated 

agency. 

ARTICLE XIV-TRADE TERMS 

All invoices covering domestic sales in the Leather Industry shall 

be due and payable in 30 days. At seller's option payment may be 

made on the 15th day of any calendar month for all invoices of the 

preceding calendar month. No datings shall be allowed. Discount 

shall be for cash payment only and shall not exceed 2%. All bills 

are net after 30 days and interest shall be added at the rate of 6 

percent per annum after due date. 

Forward orders shall be booked only after purchaser has signed 

a uniform sales contract approved by the General Planning Com- mittee subject to approval of the Administrator. 

ARTICLE XV-AMENDMENTS, MoDIFICATIONs, TERMINATIONs, AND 

VoTING 

This Code and all the provisions thereof are expressly made subject to the right of the President, in accordance with the provisions 

of the National Industrial Recovery Act, to cancel or modify any 

order, approval, license, rule, or regulations issued pursuant to the 

provisions of said act, and specifically to the right of the President 

to modify his approval of this code or any conditions imposed by 

him upon his approval thereof. 

Such of the provisions of this code as are not required to be 

included therein by the National Incl_ustrial Recovery Act may with 

the approval of the President, if the approval of the President is 

required, be modified or eliminated as changes in circumstances or 

experience may indicate by a three-fourths vote of the members of 

the Leather Industry at a meeting to be called upon ten days' notice 

by the Tanners' Council of America. Voting shall be on the basis 

of the average number of employees during the previous six months 

as shown by the records of the T anners' Council of America. V oting may be by proxy. 
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It is contemplated that from time t o time supplementary provi .. 

sions to this code or additional codes will be submitted for the ap .. proval of the President to prevent unfair competition in prices and 

other unfair and destructive competitive practices and to e:ffectuat6 

the other purposes and policies of Title I of the National Industrial 

Recovery Act consistent with the provisions hereof. 

This Code shall continue in effect for the period provided in 

the National Industrial Recovery Act, unless sooner terminated in 

accordance with the law in such case made and provided. 

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