Registry No. 1106-1-01 

NATIONAL RECOVERY ADMINISTRATION 

CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

STEEL CASTING INDUSTRY 

AS APPROVED ON NOVEMBER 2, 1933 

BY 

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT 

WE DO OUR PART 

1. Executive Order 

2. Letter of Transmittal 

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EXECUTIVE ORDER 

CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION FOR THE STEEL CASTING 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 Steel Casting 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 subsection (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 16, 1933, and 

otherwise, do adopt and approve the report, recommendations and 

findings of the Administrator, and do order that the said Code of Fair 

Competition be and it is hereby approved. 

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT. 

THE WHITE HousE, 

November 2, 1933. 

Approval recommended: 

HUGH S. JOHNSON, 

Administrator. 

The PRESIDENT, 

The White House. 

NOVEMBER 1, 1933. 

SIR: This is a report on the proposed Code of Fair Competition 

for the Steel Casting Industry in the United States and on the hearing 

conducted thereon in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, September 7, 

1933, in accordance with the provisions of the National Industrial 

Recoverv Act. 

PROVISIONS OF THE CODE AS TO WAGES AND HOURS 

The Code provides for a 40-hour week averaged oyer an eight week 

period with the proviso that no employee may be employed more than 

48' hours or more than six days in a.nv one week. 

Office employees are limited to 40-hours of work per week. 

The rates of pay vary from 40¢ per hour in the northern wage 

districts to 25¢ per hour in the southern wage districts. 

The hours and wages closely follow those provided in the Code for 

the Steel Industry. 

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Most of the plants in this industry are in the territory contiguous 

with or adjacent to the steel producing areas. This Industry employs the same general character of labor and wage rates and hours of 

labor are definitely affected by the labor conditions prevailing in the 

Steel Industry. 

No one under 16 years of age may be employed and no one under 

18 years of age in any hazardous occupation. 

Office and clerical employees are to receive a minimum of $15.00 

pe_r :week except that office boys and girls may be paid 80% of this 

Illlillm um. 

Old and partially disabled employees not engaged in productive 

labor may be paid 80% of the mmimum rates provided but are 

limited to 3% of the total number of employees. 

Equitable adjustments in wage rates over the minimum are provided 

for. 

GENERAL STATEMENT AND ECONOMIC EFFECT OF THE CODE 

The Steel Casting Industry in the United States represents persons, 

firms, and corporations engaged in the production and sale of steel 

castings. It embraces two main groups of castings, which are commonly known in the trade as "miscellaneous castings" and "specialties", the first group comprising those castings produced to the order 

of buyers from buyers' designs and specifications, and the latter 

group produced from designs and patterns belonging to the producer 

and sold as finished or semifinished devices, or parts thereof. 

The Steel Founders' Society, which presented the Code, representg 

about 80% of the Industry and about three fourths of the number of 

companies actively engaged in it. 

The investment in the Industry is approximately $240,000,000 and 

the number of wage earners in normal times about 43,000 persons, 

with an estimated pay roll of about $85,000,000. 

The Industry considers 1926 as a normal year, and in that year 

operated at 68% of capacity; in 1931 production dropped to 25% 

and in 1932 to only IO% of capacity. At the present time production 

has increased to about 20%. It is estimated that in working under 

the provisions of this Code at three fourths of the 1926 rate of production which is 51 % of capacity, the Industry will absorb all the workers 

then employed in the industry. Should production reach the normal 

figure of 68% of capacity on the basis of a 40-hour week, it is estimated 

that the industry would require an average total of 54,209 employees, 

or 13,000 more than were required in 1926. 

While the Code has been in process of development the Industry 

has been endeavoring to adjust hours and wages to approximate the 

code requirements, and reports for July and August show that there 

has been an increase in rates of pay of 8.8% since July 1st, amounting 

to approximately $46,000 a week, or at the rate of $2,392,000 a year. 

It is estimated that a further increase when the code requirements are 

fully met will result in a total increase of at least 16%%, or an annual 

increase of more than $5,000,000 a year. Approximately 3,000 employees have been added to the pay rolls since J ulylst, as a result of 

the reduction in hours from 50 to 40, and on the basis of the present 

level of operation in the industry, another 3,000 are estimated to be 

necessary to fully meet r~quirements of the code. 
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Pertinent data on employment, wages, and hours, as submitted by 

the Industry, may be summarized as follows: 

Number Minimum Minimum Maximum 

of rates of weekly weekly 

employees p:iy work work 

hours hours 

1926 ____________________________________________________ 1929 ____________________________________________________ 43,023 $0.35 49. 0 84.0 

51,000 . 38 50.0 84. 0 J anuary 1933 ___ __ _____ ____ ____________________________ 22,000 . 25 30. 0 84.0 September 1933 _________ __________ __ ____________________ 25, 150 .36 30. 0 47.0 Under Code at 1926 level of operations __________________ 54,209 .38 30.0 40.0 

All figures estimated in accordance with best information available. 

NOTE.-Minimum rates of pay and maximum and minimum weekly work hours are average maxima and 

minima. Minimum rates of pay in the South, for example, would be considerably less than figures shown- 15¢ per hour in January 1933, and 25¢ September 1933. 

The Board of Directors of the Steel Founders' Society is to be the 

general agency of administration of the Code and is to make such 

rules and regulations; subject to the approval of the Administration, 

as may be necessary for its administration. 

I believe that the Code is fair to Industry, and to Labor, and in 

accordance with the intent and purpose of the National Industrial 

Recovery Act. I find that-

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

pertinent provisions of Title I of the Act, including without limitation, 

subsection (a) of Section 7 and subsection (b) of Section 10 thereof; 

and that 

(b) The applicant group im:poses no inequitable restrictions on 

admission to membership therern and is truly representative of the 

Steel Casting Industry; and that 

(c) The Code as recommended is not designed to promote 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. 

Accordingly, I hereby recommend the approval of this proposed 

Code of Fair Competition for the Steel Casting Industry. 

Respectfully, 

HUGH 8. JOHNSON, 

Administrator. 

CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION OF THE STEEL CASTING 

INDUSTRY 

ARTICLE I-PURPOSE 

To effectuate the policies of Title I of the National Industrial 

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

Fair Competition for the Steel Casting Industry and upon approval 

by the President shall be the standard of fair competition for this 

Industry. 

ARTICLE II-DEFINITIONS 

The terms used in this Code and in any schedule attached hereto 

are defined as follows: 

SECTION 1. The term "the United States" means und includes all 

of the territory subject to the jurisdiction of the United States of 

America. 

SEc. 2. The term "the President" means the President of the 

United States of America. 

SEC. 3. The term "the Industry" means and includes the business· of producing and/or selling steel castings in the United States, except 

as produced and/or sold as a pa1't of the products, including finished 

and semi.finished parts thereof, of an owning or an affiliated company 

but not sold in the open market as castings in competition with 

similar castings produced by other members of the Industry; provided 

however, that the Industry, as herein defined, does not include the 

business of producing and/or selling ca.stings containing in excess 

of sixteen (16) percent of nickel and/or c~iromium, and provided 

further that Sections 1 and 5 of Article V, and Articles VII and XIII 

of this Code shall not be applicable ,vith respect to the products of 

the Industry sold for use outside of the United States. The Industry 

embraces two main groups of castings which are commonly known in 

the trade as "Miscellaneous Castings" and "Specialties." 

SEc. 4. The term "affiliated company" means a company whose 

rela~ions to another company are such that either one has, directly 

or indirectly, a substantial stock interest in the other, or that a third 

company has, directly or indirectly, a substantial stock interest in 

both; provided, however, that in the event of a dispute or disagreement regarding the term "affiliated company" as used in this Code, 

such ci.ispute or disagreement shall be referred for decision to an 

arbitration committee, elected or appointed by a fair method of 

selection. Should any member of the Industr37 desire to appeal 

from the decision of said arbitration committee, such member may 

appeal direct to the Administrator, whose decision in the matter shall 

be final. 

SEc. 5. The term "Miscellaneous Castings" means t~1.at group of 

steel castings commonly known in the trade under that name and 

produced by foundries to the order of the buyers from the buyers' 

designs, patterns, and specifications, such castings usually being sold 

in the rough. 

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SEc. 6. The term "Specialties" means that group of cast steel 

products commonly known in the trade under that name and primarily designed and engineered by the foundry companies producing 

them, produced from patterns and/or other production equipment 

belonging to the producer, and sold as finished or semifinished 

devices or parts thereof. 

SEc. 7. The term "a member of the Industry" means and includes 

any person, firm, association, corporation, or~anization or other unit, 

of any kind or description, and without lirmtation to the foregoing, 

engaged in business in the industry. 

SEc. 8. The term "the Society" means Steel Founders' Society of 

America. 

SEc. 9. The term "the Board of Directors" means the Board of 

Directors of the Society. 

SEc. 10. The term "the National Industrial Recovery Act" means 

the National Industrial Recovery Act as approved by the President, 

June 16, 1933. 

SEc. 11. The term "Administrator" means the Administrator 

appointed by the President to administer Title I of the National 

Industrial Recovery Act, and at the time in office. 

Sec. 12. The term "Administration" means the agency established 

pursuant to the provisions of Section 2 of Title I of the National 

Industrial Recovery Act. 

SEc. 13. The term "employee" as used herein includes anyone 

engaged in the Industry m any capacity, receiving compensation 

for his services, irrespective of the method of payment of such 

compensation. 

ARTICLE III-ScoPE 

SECTION 1. Articles I to XII inclusive of this Code shall apply to 

the Industry; in view, however, of the divergent producing and selling 

methods applying to the two main groups of castings, namely, Miscellaneous Castings and Specialties, separate provisions are set forth 

covering the Unfair Trade Practices of each group. 

SEc. 2. This Code shall-be applicable with respect to every member 

of the Industry, regardless of whether any such member of the 

Industry is also engaged in any other industry; provided, however, 

that this Code shall apply to and affect only that part of the business 

of each such member as relates to the Industry. 

ARTICLE IV-PARTICIPATION 

SECTION 1. Any member of the Industry may become a "party to 

the agreement" by filing with the Socie.ty a letter in the form annexed 

hereto as Schedule A, in which such party to the agreement is referred 

to in the singular as "a participant under said code" and by undertaking to bear its fair share of the expenses and responsibilities in 

connection with the preparation and administration of this Code, 

either as a member of the Society or by undertaking to pay to the 

Society the equivalent of the dues it would pay as a member of the 

Society. The signing of such a letter as is referred to herein shall not 

constitute the signer a partner of any other signer or signers. Any 

member of the Industry may also become a member of the Society. 
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SEc. 2. Any member of the Industry subject to the jurisdiction of 

this Code, and receiving the benefits of the Code and/or the benefits 

of the activities of the Society, shall pay to the Society his equitable 

proportionate shure of the costs and expenses incurred in the preparation and/or administration of this Code by the Society. 

ARTICLE V-ADMINISTRATION 

SECTION 1. Membership in the Society shall be open to any member of the Industry on an equitable basis and upon terms of equality 

with all other mem hers. The Board of Directors of the Society shall 

be the general agency for the administration of this Code and shall-

(a) For the purpose of keeping the President informed as to the 

observance or nonobservance of this Code and as to whether the 

Industry is taking appropriate steps to effectuate in all respects 

the declared policy of the National Industrial Recovery Act, require 

from any member of the Industry, in the event of complaint, duly 

certified reports in such form as may hereafter be required by the 

Administrator; 

(b) Upon complaint of interested parties, make such inquiry and 

investigation into the operation of this Code as may be necessary, 

unless a supervisory agency has been appointed as provided in Section 1 of Article VII for the subdivision or product classification of 

the Industry to which said complaint relates; and 

(c) 11ake such rules and regulations subject to the approval of the 

Administration as may be necessary for the administration and 

enforcement of this Code. 

SEc. 2. All information furnished to the Board of Directors by any 

member of the Industry, purnuant to the administration of this Code 

shall be deemed confidential and shall not be disclosed to any member of the Industry in other than composite form, unless disclosure 

in detail shall be necessary in the administration of this Code and/or 

requested by the Administrator. 

SEc. 3. In addition to information required to be submitted to the 

Board of Directors, there shall be furnished to government agencies 

such statistical information as the Administrator may deem necessary for the purposes recited in Section (3) (a) of the National 

Industrial Recovery Act. 

SEc. 4. Any action taken by the Board of Directors or other group 

within the Industry, for the purpose of making effective the provisions 

of this Code, may be submitted to the Administrator for approval, 

and shall in any case be subject to the disapproval of the Administrator. 

SEc. 5. It is recognized that questions of public interest are or may 

be involved in the administration of this Code. Accordingly, not 

more than three representatives of the Administration, of which the 

Administrator may be one, appointed by the Administrator, shall be 

given full opportunity at such times as shall be reasonably convenient 

to discuss with the Board of Directors or any committees thereof any 

matters relating to the administration of the Code and to attend meetings of the Board at which action on any such matters shall be undertaken and to make recommendations as to methods or measures of 

administering the Code, but shall not have voting powers. Due 

notice of all such meetings of the Board of Directors shall be given to 

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such representatives of the Administration. The records of the 

Board of Directors relating in any way to the administration of the 

Code shall be open to such representatives at all reasonable times. 

They shall be afforded by the Board of Directors complete access at 

all times to all records, statistical material, or other information furnished or readily available to the Board of Directors in connection 

with, or for the purposes of, the administration of the Code. The 

Board of Directors, acting directly or through one or more committees appointed by it, shall give due consideration to all requests, suggestions, or recommendations made by such representatives of the 

Administration and render every possible assistance to such representatives in obtaining full information concerning the operation and 

administration of the Code, to the end that the President may be 

fully advised regarding such operation and administration through 

reports that may be made to him from time to time by such representatives and to the end that the President may be assured that the 

Code and the administration thereof do not promote or permit 

monopolies or monopolistic practices, or eliminate or oppress small 

enterprises, or operate to discriminate against them and do provide 

adequate protection of consumers, competitors, employees, and 

others concerned and that they are in furtherance of the public interest and operate to effectuate the purposes of Title I of the National 

Industrial Recovery Act. 

ARTICLE VI-HOURS OF LABOR, RATES OF p AY, AND OTHER 

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT 

SECTION 1. Pursuant to subsection (a) of Section 7 of the National 

Industrial Recovery Act and so long as the Code shall be in effect, the 

Code shall be subject to the following conditions: 

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

collectively through representatives of their own choosing, and shall 

be free from the interference, 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 purposes 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 maximum hours of labor, 

minimum rates of pay, and other conditions of employment approved 

or prescribed by the President. 

SEc. 2. (a) The basic processes in (he Industry are of a continuous 

character and cannot be changed in this respect without serious 

adverse effect upon production and employment. As demand for 

the products of the Industry, and therefore for labor, shall increase, 

hours of labor for employees in the Industry must necessarily increase; 

but, except in the case of executives, those employed in directing or 

supervisory capacities and in technical or other highly skilled work, 

and members of their respective staffs, individually receiving pay at 

the rate of $35.00 or more per week, none of the members of the Industry shall cause or permit any employee in the Industry to be employed 

for an average of more than forty (40) hours per week in any eight (8) 
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weeks' period, such periods to be· computed from the effective date 

of this Code, or be employed for more than forty-eight (48) hours 

or more than six (6) days in any one week. 

(b) The Industry recognizes the desirability and accepts the principle of the eight (8) hour working day for labor and insofar as it 

reasonably can, the Industry will endeavor to employ its labor on 

that basis. 

(c) After the date of the employment by any member of the Industry of any employee, such member shall not knowingly permit such 

employee who shall also have been employed by one or more other 

employers, to be employed by such member such number of hours 

as would result in a violation of the Code had all such employment 

been by such member. 

(d) Members of the Industry shall not employ accounting, clerical 

and office employees, except traveling representatives and executive, 

administrative, and supervisory employees, and their respective 

personal staffs and assistants on a schedule in excess of forty (40) 

hours per week. 

SEc. 3. None of the members of the Industry shall employ in the 

Industry any person under sixteen (16) years of age, and no one under 

eighteen (18) years of age shall be employed 1n hazardous work; 

provided, however, that where a State Law specifies a higher minimum 

age, no person below the age so specified by such Law shall be so 

employed within that State. 

SEc. 4. For the purpose of this Code, the wage districts described 

in Schedule B, annexed hereto, have been established. 

SEc. 5. (a) Until changed by amendment of the Code as hereinafter in Article VIII provided, the minimum rates of pay per hour 

which shall be paid by members of the Industry for common labor in 

the Industry in the respective wage districts described in such Schedule B shall be the rates set forth in Schedule C, annexed hereto. 

None of the members of the Industry shall pay common laborers in 

its employ in the Industry in any such district any rate of pay less 

than the rate specified for such district in such Schedule C. 

(b) The rates of pay for classes of labor heretofore paid at a rate in 

excess of the rate heretofore paid for common labor shall be increased 

at least to the extent necessary to maintain, in relation to the minimum 

rates for common labor under the Code, the percentage relations 

heretofore existing (as determined by the experience of the several 

wage districts with the approval of the Board of Directors) between 

the rates of pay for such classes of labor and the rates of pay for common labor. The foregoing provision shall not be so construed as to 

require any member of the Industry to make any increase in the rate 

of pay per hour to be paid by such member to any of its employees in 

any wage district that will result in a rate of pay per hour which shall 

be higher than the rate of pay per hour paid to employees doing substantially the same class or kind of labor in the same wage district 

by any other member of the Industry which shall have increased its 

rates of pay per hour in accordance with such provision. 

(c) In the case of employees performing work for which they are 

paid per piece of work performed, the minimum rate of pay which 

each member of the Industry shall pay for such work shall produce at 

least the minimum rate of pay per hour provided in this Code for 

common labor at such plant. 
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(d) The mmrmum wage that shall be paid by any employer to 

accounting, clerical, and office employees, except those employed on a 

commission basic, shall be at the rate of fifteen dollars ($15.00) per 

week; provided, however, that office boys or girls may be paid not 

less than eighty (80) percent of such minimum wage, and provided 

further that where a State Law specifies a higher minimum wage, no 

employer shall pay less than the minimum wage required by such 

State Law. 

SEc. 6. The provisions as to minimum rates of pay shall not affect 

those employees who, by reason of old age or infirmities, are not 

engaged in productive1.abor, except that the rates paid such employees 

shall not be less than eighty (80) percent of said minimum rates and 

the number of such employees employed by each member of the 

Industry shall not be more than three (3) percent of the total number 

of its employees. 

ARTICLE VII-GENERAL PROVISIONS 

SECTION 1. Members of the Industry having a common interest 

and common problems may group themselves for administrative 

purposes in various subdivisions or product classifications, subject to 

the approval of the Board of Directors. The majority of members 

in each subdivision or product classification may appoint its agency, 

with supervisory and/or administrative powers, subject to the Board 

of Directors. In the event that no such agency is so appointed, then 

the Board of Directors may appoint such agency. If formal complaint 

is made to the Board of Directors that the provisions of this Code have 

been violated by any member or members of the Industry, the agency 

for the subdivision or product classification to which the complaint 

refers, shall institute such inquiry as may be necessary to develop the 

facts. 

SEc. 2. If the agency of any subdivision or product classification, 

formed in accordance with the provisions of Section 1 of this Article, 

so decides, each member of the Industry manufacturing products 

falling within such subdivision or product classification shall, within 

ten (10) days after notice of such determination, file with the agency 

a price list prepared by such member of the Industry, showing its 

current prices and the agency shall immediately send copies thereof 

to all members of the Industry engaged in the manufacture of such 

specified product. Revised price lists may be filed from time to 

time thereafter with the agency by any such member of the Industry 

to become effective upon the date specified therein, but such revised 

price list shall be filed with the agency at least ten (10) days in advance 

of the effective date, unless the agency shall authorize a shorter period. 

Copies of such revised price lists with notice of the effective date 

specified shall be immediately sent to all members of the Industry 

manufacturing such product who thereupon may file, if they so desire, 

revisions of their price lists specifying the effective date, which shall be 

on or after the date when the revised price list first filed shall go into 

effect. 

SEc. 3. If the agency of any subdivision or product classification so 

decides, no member of the Industry within such subdivision or product 

classification shall sell directly or indirectly by any means whatsoever 

any product of the Industry included within a subdivision or product 
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classification for which the agency shall have given notice requiring the 

filing of price lists, at a price less than the price shown for such product in the list filed by such member. 

SEc. 4. The Board of Directors shall make a careful study of the 

question of limitation of Steel Foundry Melting Capacity and shall 

submit to the Administrator for his approval such plan or plans as are 

deemed necessary, and which will further effectuate the policies of the 

National Industrial Recovery Act. 

ARTICTE VIII-AMENDMENTS 

Amendments of such of the provisions of this Code as are not 

required to be included therein by the National Industrial Recovery 

Act may, if approved by the agency of the subdivision or product 

classification concerned, if any, and by the Board of Directors, be 

submitted to the President, and, if approved by the President, shall 

become effective ten (10) days thereafter. 

ARTICLE IX-CANCELLATION OR MODIFICATION 

The members of the Industry recognize that, pursuant to subsection 

(b) of Section 10 of the National Industrial Recovery Act, the President may from time to time cancel or modify any order, approval, 

license, rule or regulation issued under Title I of said Act, with respect 

to this Code. 

ARTICLE X-VIOLATIONS 

Violation of any of the provisions of this Code, or amendments 

thereto, is an unfair trade practice and shall be subject to the penalties 

provided in the National Industrial Recovery Act. 

ARTICLE XI-RIGHTS OF THE MEMBERS OF THE INDUSTRY 

By presenting this Code the members of the Industry do not thereby 

consent to any modification thereof and they reserve the right to 

object to any such modification without being given an opportunity 

to be heard. 

ARTICLE XII-DURATION 

This Code shall become effective on the first Monday after the 

fourth day following the date on which this Code shall have been 

approved by the President, and shall continue in effect until sixty (60) 

days subsequent to June 16, 1935, or the earliest date prior thereto 

on which the President shall, by proclamation, or the Congress shall, 

by Joint Resolution, declare that the emergency recognized by 

Section 1 of the National Industrial Recovery Act has ended. 

ARTICLE XIII-UNFAIR TRADE PRACTICES 

SECTION 1. With respect to the production and/or sale of Miscellaneous Castings, the Unfair Trade Practices which are condemned 

are set forth in Schedule D, annexed hereto. Such Unfair Trade 

Practices shall have no application to that part of the Industry 

engaged in the production and/or sale of Specialties. 
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SEc. 2. With respect to the production and/or sale of Specialties, 

the Unfair Trade Practices which are condemned are set forth in 

Schedule E, annexed hereto. Such Unfair Trade Practices shall have 

no application to that part of the Industry engaged in the production 

and/or sale of Miscellaneous Casting3. 

SEc. 3. Indulgence in any of the Unfair Trade Practices, or any 

amendments thereof, or any additions thereto, shall be deemed to 

be unfair methods of competition, and using or employing any of 

such unfair methods cf competition shall be deemed a violation of 

the Code, and any member of the Industry which shall directly or 

indirectly, through any officer, employee, agent, or representative, 

use or employ any of such unfair methods of competition shall be 

guilty of a violation of the Code. 
SCHEDULE A 

FORM OF LETTER GIVING ASSENT TO CODE 

OCTOBER -, 1933. 

STEEL FOUNDERS' SOCIETY OF AMERICA, 

93.t Graybar Building, 420 Lexington Avenue, New York, N. Y. 

GENTLEMEN: The undersigned, desiring to participate under the Code of Fair 

Competition of the Steel Casting Industry, hereby assents to all of the provisions 

of said Code, and to such changes in the same as may be made by the Board of 

Directors of the Society in order to meet the requirements of the National 

Recovery Administration. Effective on the date on which the Code is approved 

by the President of the United States of America as therein provided, or as of 

the date on which this letter is delivered, if delivery is made after such date of 

approval by the President, the undersigned, by the signing and deli very of this 

letter, becomes a participant under said Code, as provided in Article IV of the 

Code, and hereby agrees with every person, firm, and corporation who shall then 

be or thereafter become a participant under said Code, that this Code shall 

constitute a valid and binding contract between the undersigned and all such 

other participants. 

Very truly yours, 

(Name of Corporation) 

By---------------------------------------- (Signature of Authorized Officer) 

(Address) 

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SCHEDULE B 

DESCRIPTION OF WAGE DISTRICTS 

1-A. Eastern District--All of Division No. 1. 

NoTE.-Division No. 1 constitutes Federal Reserve District No. 1 and 

No. 3 (except that part of Pennsylvania west of a line drawn north and 

south through Altoona, Pennsylvania) and No. 5 (except West Virginia 

and North and South Carolina) and New York State east of a line drawn 

north and south through the most westerly point of Schenectady, New 

York. 

2-A. Buffalo District-All of Division No. 2. 

NoTE.-Division No. 2 constitutes Federal Reserve District No. 2 (except 

that portion included in Division No. 1) and Erie, Pennsylvania. 

3-A. Southern District-All of Division No. 3. 

NoTE.-Division No. 3 constitutes Federal Reserve District No. 6 and 

No. 11 (except southeastern Arizona, southern New Mexico, and Texas 

west of a line drawn north and south through Haymond, Texas) and 

all of North and South Carolina, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Alabama 

(except Jefferson County). 

3-B. Birmingham District-County of Jefferson in the State of Alabama. 

4-A. Johnstown District-Cambria County, Pennsylvania. 

4-B. Pittsburgh-Wheeling District-All of Pennsylvania in Division No. 4 

(except Cambria County) and the Counties of Hancock, Brooke, Ohio and 

Marshall in West Virginia. 

N OTE.-Division No. 4 constitutes Federal Reserve District No. 4 (except 

Erie, Pa., eastern Kentucky and Ohio) and West Virginia, and that 

part of Pennsylvania not included in Division No. 1. 

4-C. West Virginia District-All of West Virginia, except Hancock, Brooke, 

Ohio, and Marshall Counties. 

5-A. North Ohio District-All of Division No. 5 north of a line drawn east 

and west through Ashland, Ohio (except Erie County) and Columbiana 

County. 

NoTE.-Division No. 5 constitutes Federal Reserve District No. 4 (except 

Pennsylvania). 

5-B. South Ohio District-AU of Division No. 5 south af a line drawn east and 

west through Ashland, Ohio (except Columbiana County) and Erie County 

and includes Canton, Massillon, Alliance, Lima, Bucyrus, Marion, Sandusky, 

and East Liverpool. 

6-A. Chicago District-Chicago switching district, the Counties of Lake and 

DuPage in Illinois, and Lake County in Indiana, and the Counties of Kenosha, 

Racine, and Wilwaukee in Wisconsin. 

6-B. Indiana-Illinois District-·All of Indian·a except Lake County; all of Illinois 

in Division No. 6 (except Lake County and Chicago switching district), all 

of Minnesota and Iowa and Wisconsin (except Kenosha, Racine, and Milwaukee Counties). 

NoTE.-Division No. 6 constitutes Federal Reserve District No. 7 and No. 9. 

6-C. Detroit District-Counties of Monroe, Lenawee, Jackson, Wayne, Oakland, 

Macomb, and Washtenaw, Michigan. 

6-D. Michigan District-All of the State of Michigan except Counties embraced 

in District 6-C. 

7-A. Colorado District-State of Colorado. 

7-B. St. Louis District-St. Louis and St. Louis County, Missouri, Madison and 

St. Clair Counties, Illinois. 

7-C. Midcontinent District-All of Division No. 7, not included in Districts 

7-A and 7-B. 

NoTE.-Division No. 7 constitutes Federal Reserve District No. 8 (except 

Tennessee, Mississippi, and Arkansas) and No. 10. 

8-A. Seattle District-States of Washington, Oregon, and Nevada. 

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8-B. San Francisco Dlstrict--All of California north of a line drawn east and 

west through Fresno, California. 

8-C. Los Angeles District--All of California not included in District No. 8-B, 

and all of the State of Arizona. 

8-D. Utah District--All of the State of Utah. 

8-E. El Paso District-All of Division No. 8 not included in Districts 8-A, 

8-B, 8-C, and 8-D. 

NoTE.-Division No. 8 constitutes Federal Reserve District No. 12 and 

that part of Federal Reserve District No. 11 not included in Division No. 3. 
SCHEDULE C 

MINI MUM RA TES OF p A y FOR C OMMON LABOR 

M inimum Rates, 

Common LaherDistrict Cenl.s per Hour 

1-A. Eastern District______________________________________________ 35 

2-A. Buffalo Distri ct ______________________________________________ 38 

3-A. Sout hern District____ _________________________________________ 25 

3-B. Birmingham District______________ ____________________________ 27 

4-A. J ohnstown District__ ________ _________________________________ 37 

4-B. Pittsburgh-Wheeling District__ ________________________________ 40 

4-C. West Virginia District_____ __ _________________________________ 37 

5-A. North Ohio District_ _____ ____________________________________ 40 

5-B. South Ohio District__ ____________ _____________________________ 37 

6-A. Chicago District _____ __________ _______________ ________________ 40 

6-B. Indiana-Illinois District_ _______ _______________________________ 37 

6-C. Detroit District ______________ _________________ ___ ____________ 40 

6-D. Michigan District ____________________________________________ 37 

7-A. Colorado District_______________ ______________________________ 40 

7-B. St. Louis District_ ____________________________________________ 37 

7-C. Midcontinent District_________________________________________ 35 

8-A. Seattle District____ _________________ __________________________ 38 

8-B. San Francisco District________________________________________ 37 

8-C. Los Angeles District_ ______________ __ _________________________ 35 

8-D. Ut ah District_ _________________________________________________ 39 

8-E. El Paso D~trict______________________________________________ 25 

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SCHEDULED 

LIST OF UNFAIR TRADE PRACTICES RELATING TO MISCELLANEOUS CASTINGS 

. This Schedule relates solely to the production and/or sale of Miscellaneous 

Castings and has no application to Specialties. 

For all purposes of this Code, it shall be an unfair trade practice for any member 

engaged in the Miscellaneous Castings branch of the Industry to do any of the 

following acts: 

SECTION 1. Make or promise to any purchaser or prospective purchaser of any 

product, or to any officer, employee, agent, or representative of any such purchaser or prospective purchaser any bribe, commission or split-commission, or 

other payment or remuneration, directly or indirectly. 

SEc. 2. Extend to any purchasers special privileges or concessions, including 

allowances for machining and/or welding (except where explicitly agreed upon to 

repair specific imperfect castings), pattern alterations, or other services not extended by the Industry to all buyers under like terms and conditions. 

SEc. 3. Purchase from customers goods and/or services at prices higher than 

the market for such goods and/or services, for the purpose of influencing or inducing the purchase of castings. 

SEc. 4. Absorb all or any part of the machining cost of castings sold as machined castings. 

SEc. 5. Enter into quantity contracts with buyers without obligation on their 

part to take delivery of the quantities specified in the contract or on the quotation, 

for the purpose of giving unwarranted prices. 

SEc. 6. State in the invoice of any product sold by a member of the Industry 

as the date thereof a date later than the date of shipment of such product, or 

include in any invoice any product shipped on a date earlier than the date of 

such invoice, for the purpose of furnishing such product at prices lower than 

would otherwise prevail or for the purpose of extending the customer's time of 

payment. 

SEc. 7. Allow terms of payment more favorable to the customer than net thirty 

days from date of shipment, or a discount of one half of one per cent (1⁄2%), 

provided payment is made within ten (10) days from date of shipment. 

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SCHEDULE E 

LIST OF UNFAIR TRADE PRACTICES RELATING TO SPECIALTIES 

This Schedule relates solely to the production- and/or sale of Specialties and 

has no application to Miscellaneous Castings. 

For all purposes of this Code it shall be an unfair trade practice for any member 

engaged in the Specialties branch of the Industry to do any of the following acts: 

SECTION 1. To make terms of payment in connection with sale for domestic 

use more favorable to the customer than thirty (30) days net cash from date of 

invoice. 

SEc. 2. To make for the purpose of influencing a purchase any promise as t o 

delivery or other matters which obviously is impossible of performance. 

SEc. 3. To employ any unfair trade practices which may be established for 

any product classification by the administrative agency for such classification 

appointed in accordance with Article VII of this Code and approved by the 

President. 

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