Approved Code No. 110-Amendment No. 3 Registry No. 699-03 

NATIONAL RECOVERY AD1\1INISTRATION 

AMENDMENT TO 

CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

HARDWOOD DISTILLATION 

INDUSTRY 

AS APPROVED ON NOVEMBER 2, 1934 

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Approved Code No. HO-Amendment No. 3 

AMENDMENT TO CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

HARDWOOD DISTILLATION INDUSTRY 

As Approved on November 2, 1934 

ORDER 

APPROVING A:MENDMENT OF CoDE OF FAIR COMPETITION FOR THE HARDWOOD DISTILLATION 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 a Code of Fair Competition for the Hardwood Distillation 

Industry, and Notice of Opportunity to be Heard having been duly 

published thereon and the annexed report on said amendment, containing findings with respect thereto, having been made and directed 

to the President : 

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

States, the National Industrial Recovery Board, pursuant to authority vested in it by Executive 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 /Jrovisions and 

will promote the policy and purposes of said title o 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 amended to 

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

NATION AL INDUSTRIAL RECOVERY BOARD, 

By W. A. HARRil\IAN, Admini.strative Officer. 

Approval recommended: 

JOSEPH F. BATTLEY, 

Acting Div-ision Adniinistrator. 

,v AsHINGToN, D. c., 

November 93, 1934. 

05306°-1325-20-34 (1) 
REPORT TO THE PRESIDENT 

The PRESIDENT, 

The W liite House. 

Srn: This is a report on the Amendment to the Code 0£ Fair Competition for the Hardwood Distillation Industry, which was approved 

by you November 10, 1933. 

The Amendment provides for open price filing and applies only 

to methanol (methyl alcohol). The Amendment is de igned to incorporate in the Code for the Hardwood Distillation Indu try certain 

fair trade provi ions parallel with similar provisions in the Code of 

Fair Competition for the Industrial Alcohol Industry. 

A Notice of Opportunity to be Heard on the said Amendment was 

ubmitted by the Code Authority for the said Industry and was 

published October 16th, 1934, and expired October 30th, 1934, in 

accordance with the proyjsions of the National Industrial Recovery 

Act. 

FINDINGS 

The Acting Deputy Administrator in his final report on said 

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

proceedings in this matter ; 

The Board finds that: 

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

1Yell designed to promote the policie and purposes of Title I of the 

National Industrial Recovery Act .including the removal of obstructions to the free flow of interstate and foreign comn1erce which 

tend to diminish the amount thereof, and will provide for the general welfare by promoting the organization of industry for the 

purpose of cooperative action of labor and management under 

adequate governmental sanction and supervision, by €liminating 

unfair competitive practices, by promoting the :fulle t possible utilization of the present productive capacity of industries, by avoiding 

undue restriction of production ( except as may be te-mporarily required), by increasing the consumption of industrial and agricultural products through increasing purchasing power, by reducing 

and relieving unemployment, by impro,ing standards of labor, and 

by otherwise rehabilitating .industry. 

(b) The Code as amended complies in all respects with the pertinent provisions o:f said title of said act, including without limitation 

sub ection (a) of Section 3, subsection (a) of Section 7 and subsection (b) of Section 10 thereof. 

( c) The Code empovvers the Code Authority to present the aforesaid Amendment on behalf of the Industry as a whole. 

( d) The Amendment and the Code as amen led are not de igned 

to and will not permit monopolie or monopoli. tic practices. 

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( e) The Amendment and the Code as amended are not designed 

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

operate to di criminate again -t them. 

(f) Those engaged in other teps of the economic process hav 

not been deprived of the right to be heard prior to apprm·al of said 

Amendment. 

Therefore, aid Amendment ha been approved. 

For the National Industrial Recovery Board: 

N OVEl\IBER 2, 1934. 

vv. A. lliRRrl\rAN, 

Administrative Officer. 
AMENDMENT TO CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION FOR THE 

HARD"\VOOD DISTILLATION INDUSTRY 

ARTICLE X shall become ARTICLE XI and the following shall 

become ARTICLE X: 

ARTICLE X-PRICE FILING 

SECTION 1. This article shall apply only to the sale of methanol 

(methyl alcohol) for use for anti-freeze purposes (hereinafter ref erred to as anti-freeze methanol (methyl alcohol). 

SECTION 2. Each member of the Industry engaged in the sale of 

anti-freeze methanol (methyl alcohol) shall file with a confidential 

and disinterested agent of the Code Authority or, if none, then with 

such agent designated by the National Industrial Recovery Board, 

identified lists of all of his prices, discounts, rebates, allowances, 

whether guarant~d against decline in price, and all other terms or 

conditions of sale, hereinafter in this article referred to as price 

terms; which lists shall completely and accurately conform to and 

represent the individual pricing practices of said member. Said 

price terms shall in the first instance be filed within five (5) days 

after the effective date of approval of this provision. Price terms 

and revised price terms shall become effective immediately upon receipt thereof by said agent. Immediately upon receipt thereof, said 

agent shall by telegraph or other equally prompt means notify said 

member of the time of such receipt. Such lists and revisions, together with the effective time thereof, shall upon receipt be immediately and simultaneously distributed to all members of the industry 

engaged in the sale of anti-freeze methanol (methyl alcohol) and 

to all of their customers who have applied therefor and have offered 

to defray the cost actually incurred by the Code Authority in the 

preparation and distribution thereof and be available for inspection 

by any of their customers at the office of such agent. Said lists or 

reYisions or any part thereof shall not be made available to any person until released to all members of the industry engaged in the 

sale of anti-freeze methanol (methyl alcohol) and their customers, 

as aforesaid; provided, that prices filed in the fir. t instance shall 

not be released until the date this article becomes effectiYe. The 

Code Authority shall maintain a permanent file of all price terms 

filed as herein provided, and shall not destroy any part of such r ec- ords except upon written consent of the National Industrial Recovery Board. Upon request the Code Authority shall furnish to the 

National Indu trial Recovery Board or any duly designated agent 

of the T ational Industrial Recovery Board copies of any such lists 

or revisions of price term . 

SE TI0N 3. , vhen any member of the Indu try has filed any revi ion, such member shall not file a higher price within forty-eight 

(48) hours. 

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SEarION 4. No member of th Indu try shall sell or offer to sell any 

products of the Inclusti·y2 for whi h price terms ha--re been filed pursuant to the provi i n of thi · article, except in accordance with such 

price terms. 

SECTION 5. The provi ion of this article shall not apply to sales 

for export from th rnited State or between member of the Indu - try. 

SECTION 6. No member of the In lustry engaged in the sale of antifreeze methanol (meth} 1 alcohol) shall enter into any agreement, 

understanding, combination or conspiracy to fix or maintain pri e 

term , nor cause or attempt to cause any member of the Indu try to 

change his price term~ by the use of intimidation, coercion, or any 

other influence inconsi tent with the maintenance of the free and 

open market which it is the purpose of this article to create. 

SECTION 7. Inasmuch as the Supplementary Code of Fair Competition for the Industrial Alcohol Industry, a division of the Chemical 

:Manufacturing Industry, ha a similar provision for the filing of 

prices of ethyl alcohol, isopropyl alcohol and methyl alcohol ( other 

than that produced from the destructive distillation of wood) price 

filed under said Code and under this article shall be exchanged under 

the same conditions as outlined above insofar as they apply to such 

alcohols when sold for anti-freeze purposes. · SECTION 8. (a) The article shall be effective only simultaneously 

with and so long as the members of the Industrial Alcohol Industry, 

including all producers of synthetic methanol (methyl alcohol) for 

anti-freeze purposes, shall be bound by similar provisions, as embodied in Article V, Fair Trade Practice Provision, of the Supplementary Code of Fair Competition for the Industrial Alcohol 

Industry, a Division of the Chemical Manufacturing Industry, 

approved August 21, 1934. 

(b) This article shall expire January 31, 1935. 

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