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Registry No. 253-0I 

NATIONAL RECOVERY ADMINISTRATION 

PROPOSED CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

WASHABLE SERVICE APP AREL 

INDUSTRY 

AS SUBMITTED ON AUGUST 30, 1933 

The Code for the Washable Service Apparel 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 having received the approval of 

the National Recovery Administration 

as applying to this industry 

UNITED STATES 

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 

WASHINGTON : 1933 

For sale by the Superintendent or Documents, Washington, D.C. - - - - - • • - Price 5 cents 

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SUBMITTED BY 

,ASSOCIATED MANUFACTURERS OF WASHABLE SERVICE APP AREL 

{II) 
CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION · FOR THE "WASHABLE 

SERVICE APP AREL INDUSTRY" 

To effectuate the policy of Title I of the National Industrial 

Recovery Act during the period of emergency, by reducing unemployment, improving the standards of labor, and by eliminating 

unfair practices in the industry inimical to the interests of the 

public and of the industry as a whole, the following provisions are 

established as a Code of Fair Competition for the washable service 

apparel industry. 

ARTICLE I-DEFINITIONS 

The term "washable service apparel industry" shall include the 

manufacture of all washable service apparel made principally of 

cotton fabrics, including coats, trousers, waitress', nurses', and maids: 

service garments, aprons, service caps, and other kindred service 

ga~ments used in hotels, hospitals, institutions, and industrial enterprises. 

"The term "employers" shall mean all persons who employ labor 

directly or through contractors, in the conduct of any branch or 

manufacturing process of the washable service apparel industry as 

defined above. 

The term "employees" shall mean all persons employed in the 

conduct of any branch of the washable service apparel industry as 

defined above. 

The term "privileged employees" shall be those partially inca• 

pacitated by age, injury, or infirmity. 

The term "person" shall mean any individual, partnership, association, trust, estate, or corporation. 

The term "effective date" shall mean the second Monday following the approval of this Code by the President. 

The term" association" shall mean The Associated Manufacturers 

of Washable Service Apparel. 

ARTICLE II-HouRs OF LABOR 

On and after the effective date, no employee shall work more than 

forty ( 40) hours per week, except that during peak seasons, employees may be required to work not more than forty-four hours of 

work per week, with the limitations however, that the average hours 

of work per week by any individual employee, shall not exceed the 

maximum of forty ( 40) hours per week when figured over a period 

of fifty-two ( 52) weeks. 

The maximum hour provisions shall not apply to executives, 

supervisory staff, salesmen, shipping room clerks, cleaners (porters) 5 

maintenance and outside crews. 

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ARTICLE III-HouRs OF OPERATION 

On and after the effective date, no employer shaU operate any 

machinery for more than eighty ( 80) hours in any one week. 

ARTICLE IV-MINIMUM w AGE 

On and after the effective date, the wages that shall be paid by 

any employer to any employee employed in the industry, whether 

based upon productive effort or efficiency or hourly rates, shall not 

be less than Twelve ($12) Dollars per week, for forty (40) hours of 

labor (30¢ per hour), excepting apprentices, during a period limited 

to eight weeks, who shall be paid not less than the prevailing :factory 

schedules during the apprenticeship period. 

On and after the effective date, present piece or hourly rates above 

the minimum herein set, shall be increased at least in the same proportion as the decrease of working hours shall bear to the standard 

hours of work, in effect during the week preceding the 1st day of 

August 1933. 

The employment of apprentices by any employer shall be limited 

at all times to five percent ( 5%) of the capacity number of all 

productive labor employees. 

Privileged employees, namely, those partially incapacitated by 

age, injury, or infirmity, shall be excepted from the minimum wage 

provisions of this code; provided, however, that said employees shall 

be paid no less than other employees in the same :factory proportionally to the amount or character of the work they do; and provided, further, that the employment of such employees in any factory 

shall be limited to those employed in said :factory on August 1st, 

1933, or to 5% of the maximum number of employees. 

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ARTICLE : :v-: EMPLOY:fy[ENT OF MINORS 

On and after the effective date, employers shall not engage any 

minor under the age of sixteen years. 

ARTICLE VI-PRISON A.ND INSTITUTION AL LABOR 

On and after the effective date, no person engaged in the industry 

shall manufacture or cause to be manufactured, or acquire, sell, or 

distribute any garment produced in any penal, correctional, re- formatory, or other similar institution, and no person engaged in 

the industry shall purchase any textiles, raw materials, or other 

supplies from any penal, correctional, reformatory, or other similar 

institution. 

ARTICLE VII-LABOR CLAUSE 

Employers shall comply with the requirements of The National 

Industrial Recovery Act, as follows: 

1. Th~t 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 
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any self-organization or any other concerted activities, for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection. 

2. That no employee and anyone 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. 

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. 

Without in any way attempting to qualify or modify by interpretation the following requirements of the national recovery act, 

,employers in this industry may exercise their right to select, retain, 

or advance employees on the basis of individual merit, without 

regard to their membership or nonmembership in any organization. 

ARTIOLE VIII-STANDARDS OF FAIR COMPETITION 

1. Prices.-Products manufactured by this industry shall only be 

sold at price or prices as will realize to the manufacturer a fair 

average cost of production and sale, plus a fair and reasonable margin of profit, allowance being made for increased costs in quotation 

of prices to the consumer Imying in more limited quantities as contrasted with the purchases by linen supply companies. 

It is recommended that the Governing Board study and recomniend the adoption by the industry of a uniform system of costs 

to be used where reference is made herein to cost figures. 

2. Terms and credits.-Credit terms extended, shall not be greater 

than 2% , 10 days, net 30, or where the condition now exists, 2%, 10 days E.0.M., net on the 20th, irrespective of quantity purchased, 

distribution, or extension of delivery dates, or any other factor of 

advantage or disadvantage in any offered order. 

Credit shall not be extended by a manufacturer to any customer 

or prospective customer whose account with any manufacturer. in 

this industry, as to new transactions, is delinquent for more than 

sixty days. It is contemplated that a central credit information 

bureau for the exchange of credit information be established. 

The Governing Board shall have the power after a hearing to 

make exceptions to these provisions both in the matter of terms and 

credits for certain classes of trade where justification therefor exists; and each manufacturer shall have the right, as he sees fit, to 

deal with his respective debtors as to the liquidation of accounts past 

due on the effective date. 

3. Rebates or allowiances.-The secret payment or allowance of rebates, refunds, commissions, or unearned discounts, whether in the 

form of money or otherwise, or-secretly extending to certain purchasers-special sources or privileges not extended to all purchasers, 

under like terms and conditions, with the intent and with the effect 

of injuring competitors, and where the effect may be to substantially 

lessen competition or tend to create a monopoly or to unreasonably 

restrain trade, is unfair trade practice. 

4. Forward aontracts.-Future contracts can be taken only where 

the deli very period does not exceed four months from the date of 

such contracts. There shall be no post dating or false dating of 

~ontracts or invoices. 
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5. OutsidJe Factors.-Manufacturers whose basic lines are foreign 

to this industry, but who from time to time manufacture and/or 

market some of the products of this industry, should be required to, 

comply with the maximum working hours, minimum wages, and 

other provisions of the Code to which this industry is subject, to the· end that unfair competitive practices in the marketing of such. 

products may be eliminated. 

ARTICLE IX-ADMINISTRATION 

1. Governing B 0(1/)"d.-( a) The administration of this Code shall 

be carried out by a Governing Board of eleven members, made up 

as follows : The President, Secretary, and Treasurer of the Associated Manufacturers of Washable Service Apparel; three members 

of the association to be selected by the association from its eastern 

membership; four members to be selected by the association from 

its membership as follows: one member from Missouri, one member 

from Illinois, one member from the Mountain Section, and one member from the West Coast; one member shall be designated by the 

Administrator of the National Industrial Recovery Act. 

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east two of the members of this Board shall be directly interested in the consuming trade other than the linen supply trade. 

(b) Powers.-Said Governing Board shall have the following 

powers: 

1. To administer the provisions of this Code and to adopt rules. and regulations for the enforcement thereof. 

2. To entertain and hear complaints against any member of the 

Association or any person enga~ed in the industry, concerning any 

alleged violation of this Code and where such complaint cannot be 

disposed of by the Board, to cause such complaint to be referred to 

the appropriate governmental agencies, having jurisdiction in the 

matter. 

3. To initiate proceedings before the proper governmental agencies,. 

for the violation of the Code. 

4. The Board shall have the power to make such investigations 

of the business of any person in the industry, as they may see fit, 

to the end that full compliance with the letter and spirit of this Code 

is obtained. 

5. To consider and to submit to the President, amendments of 

the Code. 

6. To establish rules and regulations for the industry, covering 

such additional fair practices, as the Board may deem fit and proper. 

7. To require reports from any person in the industry, as to costs, 

transactions, delinquent accounts, sales and any other matter pertaining to the full compliance by the industry with the provisions 

of this Code. 

8. To cause the bylaws of the Association to be so formulated as 

to conform to and carry out the purposes and intent of this Code. 

9. The Board shall set up two separate committees, with advisory 

powers as follows: 

a. A Committee to deal with the problems and adjust the differences of the manufacturers who cater to the linen supply trade, the 

large .wholesalers, and the .large. industrial .plants. 
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b. A Con1mittee to deal with the problems and adjust the differ-

•ences of the manufacturers who cater to the smaller consumer. 

ARTICLE X-MEMBERSHIPS AND MONOPOLIES 

The Association shall not impose any unequitable restrictions on 

.admission to membership therein, and shall truly represent the 

industry. 

This Code is not designed to promote and will not promote 

monopoly or monopolistic practices, nor is it designed to eliminate 

or oppress small enterprises, and it will not operate to discriminate 

.against them. 

ARTICLE XI-1\1omFICATION 

1. This code and all its 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 modify any order, approval, license, 

rule, or regulation, issued under said title, and specifically to the 

right of the President to cancel or modify his approval of this code ,or any conditions imposed by him upon his approval thereof. 

2. 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 eli1ninated. It is con-

-templated that from time to time supplementary provisions to this 

code or additional codes may be submitted in behalf of the Industry ,or subdivisions thereof for the approval of the President. 

ARTICLE XII-CERTIFICATION 

I, JosEPH MASLAN, Temporary Secretary of the Associated Manufacturers of Washable Service Apparel, do hereby certify that the 

foregoing is a true copy of the Code of Fair Competition presented 

to and approved by the meeting of the members of the said association, duly called and held at the Hotel New Yorker, at New York 

City, on July 28th, 1933, and the City of Chicago on the 18th day of 

.. A ..ugust 1933. 

Dated, New York, August 23d, 1933. 

[SEAL.] JOSEPH MASLAN, 

Temp-orary Secretary. 

Counsel: 

ZIMMERMAN & ZIMMERMAN, 

-270 Broadway, New York City. 

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