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Approved Code No. 21-Amendment No. 3 Registry No. 930-1-~1 

NATIONAL RECOVERY ADMINISTRATION 

AMENDMENT TO 

CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

LEATHER INDUSTRY 

AS APPROVED ON MARCH 5, 1935 

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Approved Code No. 21-Amendment No. 3 

AMENDMENT TO CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

LEATHER INDUSTRY 

As Approved on March 5, 1935 

ORDER 

APPROVING AMENDMENT OF CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION FOR THE 

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 approval of an amendment 

to the Code of Fair Competition for the Leather Industry, and 

notice of opportunity to be heard having been duly given thereon 

and the annexed report on said amendment, containing finding with 

re pect thereto, having been made and directed to the Pre ident. 

NOvV, THEREFORE, on behalf of the President of the United 

States, the National Industrial Recovery Board, pur uant to authority vested in it by Executive Orders of the Pre ident, including 

Executive Order No. 6859, dated September 27, 1934, and otherwise; 

does hereby incorporate, by reference, aid annexed report and does 

find that aid amendment and the Code as constituted after being 

amended comply in all re pects with the pertinent provi ions and 

will promote the policy and purposes of said Title of aid Act, and 

does hereby order that aid amendment be and it i hereby approved, 

and that the previous approval of said Code is hereby amended to 

include an approval of said Code in it entirety as amended. 

NATION AL INDUSTRIAL RECOVERY BOARD 

By ,v. A. HARRil\fAN, Administrative Officer. 

Approval reconunencled: 

PRENT! L. COONLEY, 

Division Adndni trator. 

WASHINGTON, D. c., 

111 arch 5, 1935. 

119419 °-1603-38-35 (1) 
REPORT TO THE PRESIDENT 

The PRESIDENT, 

The lV hite House. 

Sm : This is a report on the Amendment to the Code of F air Competition for the Leather Industry and on the N otic•e of Opportunity 

to be Heard, dated January 23 in accordance with the provisions of 

Title I of the National Industrial Recovery Act. 

GENERAL STATEMENT 

The Leather Indu try, through the General Planning Committee, 

its Code Authority, has availed itself of provi ions in Article XV 

of the Code of Fair Competition for the Leather Industry, approved 

by you on the seventh day of September, 1933. 

RE UME OF AMENDMENT 

The Amendment calls for a revision of Article XV, paragraph 2, 

and will enable the Code Authority to propose Amendments on behalf of the Industry or any Division thereof, without the n°ce sity 

of a three-quarter vote of the entire Industry, a provided in the 

original article. At the time the Leather Code was formulated, it 

included only tanners of leather. They were comparatively f w 

in number, and an apprm-al by eventy-five (75) per cent was democratic and workable. Since the Code was originally approved, there 

have been included under the Code many mall and cattered group 

of related industries, uch as the Leather Belting Division. On 

several occa ion it ha been found that, althouo·h they received one 

hundred (100) per cent vote of approval by the tanner to a propo "cl action the absence of any Yote from many of the ·muller 

member made the ecuring of seventy-five (75) per cent a phy ical 

impos ibility. In oth r word , their hands have been tied in takinoany onstructive action. It wa only after the e:xpenclitur of considerably over one thou and dollar in lono- di tan e tel phone call 

that the Code Authority wa able to o-et the nee ·ary Y te on thi 

parti ular Am n lment. 

Th Deputy Adm"ni trator, in his final report to the National 

Indu. trial RecoY ry Board on aid Amenclm nt to ail ode. having 

found a herein et fo rth and on the ba i of all the proc edin · in 

thi, matter : 

Th ational Inr:lu trial Recov ry Bon rd find that : 

(a) The Amen lm nt to the aid Code and the ode a am n l ] 

are well d ioned to promot the policie and pnq e of Title I 

of the National lndu trial Recovery Act, includino- th removal of 

ob truction t.0 the free flow of inter tate and foreio-n comm rce, 

which tend to dimini h the amount ther of, and will provide for the 

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general welfare by promoting the organization of in lu try for the 

purpo e of cooperative action among trade groups, by indu ing and 

maintaining united action of la.bar and management un ler adequate 

governmental sanction and supervi ion, by eliminating unfair competitive practice by promoting the fulle t po ible utilization of the 

pre ent produ tive capacity of the indu tri , by avoiding undue 

re triction of production ( ex ept a may b tempor:arily required), 

by increasing the consumption of in lu trial an 1 agri ultural products throuah increa ing purcha ing power, by r ducing and relieving 

unemployment by impro,ing tandard of labor, and by otherwise 

rehabilitating in lu try. · 

(b) The Code as amended complie in all re pects with the pertinent provi ion of said Title of aid A t, including without limitation Sub-section (a) of ection 3, Sub- ection (a) of ection 7 and 

Sub-section (b) of Section '10, thereof. 

( c) The Code empowers the General Planning Committee to preent the afore aid Amen 1ment on behalf of the Indu try a a whole. 

( d) The Amendment and the Code as amended are not de ·igned 

to and will not permit monopolies or monopolistic practices. ( e) The Amendment and the Code a am nded are not lesigned 

to and will not eliminate or oppress mall enterprises and will not 

operate to discriminate against them. 

( f) 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, this Amendment has been approved. 

For the J ational Indu trial Recovery Board: 

~1ARCH 5, 1935. 

w. A. HARRIMAN, 

Adniinistrative Officer. 
M1E D1.1E T TO CODE OF FAIR coi1PETITIO FOR 

THE LEATHER I DUSTRY 

Amend the Title of Article XV by deleting the last two words 

"and Voting' ancl change 'comma" to "period" after the word 

' termination. : 

Article XV, para.graph (2) shall be amended to read as follows: 

Such of the provi ions of this Code a are not required to be included herein by the Act may upon recommendation of the General 

Planning Committee as provided herein ·and, with the approval of 

the ational Indu trial Recovery Board, be m.odified or eliminated 

in such manner as may be indicated by the needs of the public, by 

changes in circum tance , or by experience. All of the provisions 

of thi Code, unles o modified or eliminated, shall remain in effect 

until June 16, 1935 . 

.A.ppro-red Code No. 21-Amen-dment No. 3. 

Registry No. 930-1- 01. 

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