Registry No. 1702-14 

NATIONAL RECOVERY ADMINISTRATION 

PROPOSED CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

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FOR THE 

COMMERCIAL DUPLICATING 

AND MAILING INDUSTRY 

AS SUBMITTED ON AUGUST 29, 1933 

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U.S. DEPoetTOil!Y 

The Code for the Commercial Duplicating and Mailing 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 havmg received the -approval of 

the National Recovery Administration 

· as applying to this industry 

UNITED STATES 

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 

WASHINGTON: 1933 

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TENTATIVE CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

SUBMITTED BY THE COMMERCIAL DUPLICATING AND MAILING 

INDUSTRY 

Application to the President of the United States for a Code of 

Fair Competition for the Commercial Duplicating and Mailing Industry, under the provisions of Section 3, Title I, of the Act entitled "An 

Act to Encurage National Industrial Recovery, To Foster Fair Competition and To Provide for the Construction of Certain Useful Public 

Works for Several Purposes." 

To effectuate the policy of Title I of the National Industrial 

Recovery Act, the following provisions are established as a Code of 

Fair Competition for the Commercial Duplicating and Mailing 

Industry: 

1. LABOR ConE 

1. Collective Bargaining.- In conformity with the provisions of 

Section 7 a of the National Industrial Recovery Act, the attitude of 

this industry with respect to the labor of employees shall be as 

follows: 

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

collectively through representatives of their own choosing, and shall 

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 choosing; and 

(C) 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. 

2. Child Labor.-On and after the effective date of this Code, no 

person under the age of sixteen years shall be employed in a Commercial Duplicating and/or Mailing establishment, except that 

persons between fourteen and sixteen may be employed for not to 

exceed three hours per day, and these hours between 7 A.M. and 

7 P.M. in such work as will not interfere with hours of dav school. 

3. Maximum Hours and Minimum Wages.-(A) On and fter the 

effective date of this Code no individual or organization producing 

and/or selling Commercial Duplicating and/or Mailing Service shall 

work any office worker or assistant supervisor an average of more 

than forty hours per week for any six months' period; not shall they 

work any production worker an average of more than forty hours a 

week for any six months' period; and the maximum hours of work 

for any one week for any production worker shall be forty-eight hours. 

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(B) Exemptions.-The following shall be exempt from the maxi- mum hours of work provisions: 

(1) Outside salesmen. 

(2) Traveling representatives. 

(3) Executives and members of the managing staff receiving 

$35.00 or more per week, if paid time and a third for 

all hours over 48 hours. 

(4) Owners, copartners, or corporate officers. 

(C) Emergency Work.-These limitations shall not apply to enlployees when emergency orders must be produced, provided that 

such extra hours beyond eight hours in any one day shall be paid for 

at the rate of not less than one and a third times the regular hourly 

rate. 

(D) On and after the effective date of this Code Commercial Duplicating and Mailing Service producers and/or sellers shall establish 

minimum rates or wages for the employees specified in Section 3a, a 

follows: 

(a) For experienced office workers the minimum wage scale shall be 

not less than $14.00 per week. 

(b) For experienced production workers the minimum cal for all 

duplicating-machine operators shall be not less than forty cent per 

hour; and for all other employees (except messengers) shall be not 

less than thirty cents per hour; for all messengers, shall be not le 

than 25 cents per hour. 

Except, that since it is the desire of the President of the United 

States for each industry to absorb its own experienced employee 

before undertaking to train beginners and others, it is provided that 

until December 31, 1933, learners and junior assistant shall not 

exceed in number twenty percent of the experienced employee ; and 

shall receive not less than eighty percent of the minimum wag cule 

for experienced operators or office workers, and that in not 1 than 

six weeks' tin1e such learners and junior assistants shall be advanc d 

to the minin1um scale of pay for experienced operator in their cla . 4. Not to reduce the compensation for employment nm in exc .,., 

of the minimum wage hereby agreed to (notwith tanding that the 

hours worked in uch employment may be hereby r due d). 

5. Not to use any subterfuge to fru trate th pirit and int nt f 

this Code which i , among other thing , to incr a e emplo n1 nt b .,. a 

universal co enant, to remove ob tru tions to comm rc , and to 

shorten hours and to rai e wage for the horter week to a li vino- ba i.,. 

6 . ... ot to increa the pr~ e of any ervi e old after the date her f 

over th pri.c on July 1, 1933, by more than i made n ry by 

actual increa es in production, op rating repla m nt r inY i 

co ts of servi s, or b tax r th r o t re ultin0 fr 111 a ti n 

tak n pur uant to the \.o-ricultural Adju trnen .Ac inc .Tuly 1, 

1933, and, in tting such price in rca e t gi full w io-ht t pr bable in rea in al hun , and t r frain fr 111 takino- pr fit ring 

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9. Administration.-·(a) To effectuate further the policjes of the 

Act, under Section 2a of Title I of the National Industrial Recovery 

Act, the Mail Advertising Service Association International is nereby 

appointed the agency to administer the full purposes of the Act insofar as they apply to the Commercial Duplicating and Mailing Industry 

such Association being the only National Association in the industry 

and having been the only National Association in the industry for 

the past fourteen years. Membership in the Mail Advertising Service 

Association International is open to all employing concerns, with no 

restriction as to size or location. 

(b) The general duties and powers of the agency in administering 

this Code 1 restrictions on the administering functions of such agency, 

the method of organization of the Code Committee, supervisory 

eontrol over the Code Committee, specific duties and powers of the 

Code Committee, are all to be provided for by a fair method in the 

complete Code of Fair Competition to be submitted by this industry 

to the President of the United States not later than September 1, 

1933, to be approved by the Administrator. 

(c) Such agency is also set up to cooperate with the Administrator 

in making investigations as to the functioning and observances of .any provisions of this Code at its own instance or on complaint of 

any person affected, and to report the same to the Administrator. 

(d) 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 Recovery Act, from time 

to time to cancel, or to modify any order, approval, license, rule or 

regulation, issued under Title I of said Act, and specifically to the 

right of the President to cancel or modify his approval of this Code 

or any condition imposed by him upon his approval thereof. 

(e) 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 the circumstances or experience may indicate. It is contemplated 

that from time to time supplementary provisions to this Code or 

additional codes will be submitted for the 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 provisions thereof. 

10. Effective Date.-This Code shall become effective September 1, 

1933, and shall remain in effect until December 31, 1933, unless and 

until superseded by the complete Code of the industry, which will 

he submitted not later than September 1, 1933. 

H. W. OsBORN, 

President, M.A.S.A. Intnl. 

By H. C. BATES, 

Vice-President and Director, and Authorized 

Code Representative for the M.A.S.A. Intnl. 

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