Approved Code No. 422 Registry No. 205-02 

NATIONAL RECOVERY ADMINISTRATION 

CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

CANVAS STITCHED BELT 

MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY 

AS APPROVED ON MAY 9, 1934 

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Approved Code No. 422 

CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

CANVAS STITCHED BELT MANUFACTURING 

INDUSTRY 

As Approved on May 9, 1934 

ORDER 

APPROYING ConE OF FAIR CoMPETITION FOR THE CANVAS STITCHED BELT 

MANUFACTURING 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 a Code of 

Fair Competition for the Canvas Stitched Belt Manufacturing Industry, and hearings having been duly held thereon and the annexed 

report on said Code, containing findings with respect thereto, having 

been made and directed to the Pres-ident : 

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

States, I, Hugh S. Johnson, Administrator for Industrial Recovery, 

pursuant to authority vested in me by Executive Orders of the President, including Executive Order No. 6543-A, dated December 30, 

1933, and otherwise; do hereby incorporate by reference said annexed 

report and do find that said Code complies in all respects with the 

pertinent provisions and will promote the policy and purposes of 

said Title of said Act; and do hereby order that said Code of Fair 

Competition be and it is hereby approved. 

HuGHS. JOHN ON, 

Administr.ator for Industrial R ecovery. 

Approval recommended : 

H. 0. KING, 

Division Administrator. 

W A HINGTON, D.C., 

11! ay 9, 1934. 

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REPORT TO THE PRESIDENT 

The PRESIDENT, 

The White H ouse. 

Sm: This is a report on the H earing on the Code of Fair Competition for the Canvas Stitched Belt Manufacturing Industry, held in 

Room 2062, Department of Commerce Building, on F ebruary 19, 

1934. The Code which is attached was presented by duly qualified 

and authorized r epresentatives of the Industry, complying with 

statutory requirements, said to represent all concerns in the Industry. 

In accordance with the customary procedure every person who had 

filed a request for an appearance wa freely heard in public, and all 

statutory and regulatory requirements were complied with. 

THE INDUSTRY 

The Industry comprises seven concerns, having an investment in 

1933 of $935,000. In 1929 the seven concerns who are still engaged 

in the Industry employed 208 employees. This figure has declined 

to about 150 employees in 1933. Aggregate annual sales for the seven 

concerns has declined from $2,254,000 in 1929 to $537,000 in 1933. 

PROVISIONS OF THE CODE 

The Code provides f or a minimum wage of 35¢ per hour, and 32:lj2¢ 

per hour for learners during a six weeks period of apprenticeship. 

Learners are limited to 10% of the total number of employees. The 

weekly rate of compensation shall not be reduced because of any 

reductions in the number of hours of work per week and dollar differentials exi ting on June 16, 1933 are to be maintained for all employees r eceiving $35 or les per week. 

Hours of work for clerical and office employees are limited to 40 

hours per week and eight hours per day with a provision that these 

employees are permitted to work ten hours a. day for one day each 

week. 

Hours of work for all other employees are limited to 40 hours a 

week and eight hours a day with the following exceptions : 

Employees are permitted to work 48 hours per week and nine hours 

per day for not more than ten weeks in any one year provided 

that time and one-third i paid for all work in excess of 40 hours a 

week and eight hour a day ; engineers and shipping crews are permitted to work 44 hours per week and nine hours per day; firemen 

are permitted to work 48 hours per week and 12 hours per day; employees engaged exclusively in a supervisory capacity receiving $35 

per week or more and outside salesmen are not limited as to hours; 

watchmen are p rmitted to work not more than 56 hours per week 

and 12 hours per day ; employees in cases of special necessity are ex-

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cepted from the maximum hours provisions but shall be paid time 

and one-half for all overtime work. 

Representation of the Code Authority is provided for all members 

of the Industry. There are no restrictive provisions. The Code 

prbvides for an open pr1ce association in the Industry, but permits 

prices to be revised. without a waiting period. 

FINDINGS 

The ep u~y Administrator in his final report to me on said Code 

having found as herein set f orth and on the basis of all the proceedings in this matter: 

I find that: 

(a) Said Code is well designed to promote the policies and purposes of Title I of the National Industrial Recovery Act, including 

the remoYal of obstructions to the free flow of interstate and foreign 

commerce which tends to diminish the amount thereof, and will 

provide for the g!3neral welfare by promoting the organization of 

;industry for the purpose of cooperative action among the trade 

groups, by inducing and maintaining united action of labor and 

management under adequate governmental sanction and supervision, 

by eliminating unfair competitive practices, by promoting the fullest possible utilization of the present productive capacity of industries! by avoiding undue restriction of production (except as may 

be temporarily required), by increasing the consumption of industrial 

and agricultural products through increasing purchasing power, by 

reducing and relieving uneml?loyment, by improving standards of 

labor, and by otherwise rehab1litating industry. 

(b) Said Industry normally employs not more than 50,000 employees; and is not classified by me as a major industry. 

(c) The Code as approved com plies in all respects with the pertinent provisions of said Title of said Act, including without limitation Subsection (a) of Section 3, Subsection (a) of Section 7, 

and Subsection (b) of Section 10 thereof; and that the applicant 

association is an industrial association truly representative of the 

aforesaid Industry; and that said association imposes no inequitable 

restrictions on admission to membership therein. . (d) The Code is not designed to and wi.ll not permit monopolies 

or monopolistic practices. 

(e) The Code is not designed to and will not eliminate or oppress 

small 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 

Code. 

For these reasons, this Code of Fair Competition for the Canvas 

Stitched Belt J\1anufacturing Industry has been approved. 

Respectfully, 

MAY 9, 1934. 

HuGH S. JoHNsoN, 

Administrator. 
CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION FOR THE CANVAS 

STITCHED BELT MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY 

ARTICLE I-PURPOSES 

To effectuate the policies of Title I of the National Industrial 

Recovery Act, the following provisions are established as a Code 

of Fair Competition for the Canvas Stitched Belt Manufacturing 

Industry and shall be the standard of fair competition for such 

Industry and shall be binding upon every member thereof. 

ARTICLE II-DEFINITIONS 

1. The term " Industry " as used herein includes the manufacture 

and the sale by manufacturers of canvas stitched belting, but does 

not include solid woven, rubber, balata, or leather belting, or the 

manufacture of the fabric used in canvas stitched belting. 

2. The term "member of the Industry" includes, but without 

limitation any individual, partnership, association, corporation, or 

other form of enterprise engaged in the Industry, either as an 

employer or on its own behalf. 

3. The term "employee" as used herein includes anyone engaged 

in the Industry in any capacity receiving com.pensation for his 

services, irrespective of the nature or method of payment of such 

compensation, except a member of the Industry. 

4. The term "employer" as used herein includes anyone by whom 

any such employee is compensated or employed. 

5. The term "watchmen" is defined to mean employees whose 

primary duty is watching and guarding the property of their 

employer. 

6. The terms "Act", "President", and "Administrator" as used 

herein shall mean respectively Title I of the National Industrial 

Recovery Act, the President of the United States, and the Administrator for Industrial Recovery. 

ARTICLE III-HoURs 

1. No :person employed in clerical or office work shall be permitted 

to work 1n excess of forty (40) hours in any one week or eight (8) 

hours in any twenty-fou~ (24) hour period, provided, however, 

that he may be permitted to work ten (10) hours a day for one 

day each week, provided, further, that in no event shall he work 

more than forty ( 40) hours in any one week. 

2. No other employee shall be permitted to work in excess o£ 

forty ( 40) hours in any one week or eight (8) hours in any twentyfour (24) hour period~ provided, however, that these employees may 

be permitted to work forty-eight hours in any one week and nine (9) 

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hours in any one day for not more than ten (10) weeks in any one 

year, provided, further, that time and one-third (1V3 ) shall be paid 

for all hours worked in excess of forty ( 40) hours in any one weak 

and eight (8) hours in any one day, excepting that: 

(a) Engineers and shipping crews shall be permitted to work 

not in excess of forty-four (44) hours in any one week or nine (9) 

hours in any one day. 

(b) Firemen shall be permitted to work not more than fortyeight (48) hours in any one week or twelve (12) hours in any" one 

day. 

(c) Executives and employees engaged exclusively in a managerial or supervisory capacity, who are paid thirty-five dollars ($35.00) 

or more per week and outside salesmen are exempted from all provisions of this Section. 

(d) "\Vatchmen shall be permitted to work not more than fifty-six 

(56) hours in any one week or more than twelve (12) hours in any 

one day. 

(e) Employees engaged in emergency maintenance or emergency 

repair work are excepted from the maximum hour pr.ovisions of 

this Section but in any such special case over time for all work in 

excess of the maximum hours specified herein shall be paid for at not 

less than one and one-hal£ ( 1 V2 ) times the normal rate. All such 

over-time work shall be reported to the Code Authority. 

3. No employer shall knowingly permit any employee to work for 

a total number of hours in excess of the number of hours prescribed 

for each week and day, whether employed by one or more employers 

in the Industry. 

4. No employee shall work or be permitted to work more than six 

(6) days in any seven (7) day period. 

ARTICLE IV-WAGES 

1. No employee shall be paid less than at the rate of fourteen 

dollars ( $14.00) per week of forty ( 40) hours or thirty-five cents 

( 35¢) per hour, except as otherwise provided herein. 

2. This Article establishes a minimum rate of pay, regardless of 

whether an employee is compensated on a time-rate, piecework, or 

other basis. 

3. The provisions of Section 1 of this Article shall not apply to 

learners during a six weeks' apprenticeship, during which time 

learners may be paid at not less than at the rate of thirty-two and. 

one-hal£ cents (32V2¢) per hour. No employer shall include within 

the category of learners more than ten per cent (10%) of the total 

number of employees in his plant, provided, however, that nothing 

herein shall prevent any member of the Industry from employing at 

least one learner. 

4. Employees shall be paid at the rate of time and one-half (1¥2) 

the normal rate of pay for all work performed on Sundays, Memorial Day, the Fourth of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas and New Year's Day. 

5. No employee shall be paid a wage rate which will yield a 

lower weekly wage for the shorter full-time week herein establisher} 

than he could have earned for the same class of work for the longbr 
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full-time week existing June 16, 1933. Dollar differentials existing 

on June 16, 1933, shall at least be maintained for the same class 

of work, for all employees who are paid $35.00 per week or less. 

6. No employer or his agent shall accept rebates directly or indirectly on wages. 

7. Female employees performing substantially the same work as- male employees shall receive the same pay as male employees and 

where female employees displace male employees they shall receive 

the same rates of pay as the male employees who perform this work. 

8. A person whose earning capacity is limited because of age or 

physical or mental handicap may be employed on light work at a 

wage below the minimum established hy this Code if the employer 

obtains from the State authority designated by the United State~ 

Department of Labor a certificate authorizing his employment a.t 

such wages and for such hours as shall be stated in the certificate. 

Each employer shall file monthly with the Code Authority a list of 

all such persons employed by him, showing the wages paid to, and 

the maximum hours of work for, such employee. 

ARTICLE V-GENERAL L ABOR PROVISIONS 

1. No person under sixteen (16) years of age shall be employed in 

this Industry. No person under eighteen (18) years of age shall 

be employed at operations or occupations which are hazardous in 

nature or dangerous to health. This Code Authority shall submit 

to the Administrator for approval before April 1, 1934, a list of 

such operations or occupations. In any State an employer shall be 

deemed to have complied with this provision as to age if he shall 

have on file a valid certificate or permit duly signed by the Authority in such State empowered to issue employment or age certificates 

or permits showing that the employee is of the required age. 

2. 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 purpose 

of collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection. 

3. 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. 

4. Employers shall comply with the maximum hours of labor, 

minimum rates of pay, and other conditions of employment, approved or prescribed by the President. 

5. No provi ion in this Code shall supersede any State or Federal 

Jaw which imposes on employers more stringent requirements as to 

age of employees, wages, hours of work, or as to safety, health, 

sanitary or general 'IYorking condibons, or insurance, or fire protection, than are imposed by this Code. 

G. Employers shall not reclassify employees or duties of occupation performed by employees or use any other subterfuge so as 

to defeat the purposes of the A ·t or of this Code. 

7. All employers shall post and keep posted the full labor provisions of this Code in con picuous places readily accessible to em-
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ployees, and shall comply with all rules and regulations relative to 

the posting of provisions of Codes of Fair Competition which may 

be prescribed by the Administrator from time to time. 

8. Every employer shall make rea onable provisions for the safety 

and health of his employees at the place and during the hours of 

their employment. Standards of safety and health shall be submitted by the Code Authority to the Administrator for approval 

within six (6) months after the effective elate of this Code. 

ARTICLE VI-ADMINISTRATION 

1. There shall forthwith be constituted a Code Authority con- sisting of: 

(a) Three representatives of the Industry, or such other member 

as may be approved from time to time by the Administrator, to be 

selected as hereinafter provided. 

(b) Such additional members, without vote, not to exceed three, 

as the Administrator may appoint to represent such groups or interests or such governmental agencies and for such periods as he 

may designate. 

2. The representatives of the Industry shall be selected in the 

following manner : 

(a) The representatives shall be elected by a majority vote of 

the members of the Indu try. All known members of the Industry 

shall be notified by registered mail at least ten (10) days prior to 

the election. Voting by mail shall be permitted and each member 

of the Industry shall be entitled to vote for three (3) members of 

the Code Authority. 

(b) Members of the Code Authority shall hold office for one year 

or until their successors are elected and qualified. 

3. Each trade or industrial association directly or indirectly participating in the selection or activities of the Code Authority shall 

(1) impose no inequitable restrictions on membership, and (2) submit to the Administrator true copies of its articles of association, 

by-laws, regulations, and any amendments when made thereto, 

together with such other information as to membership, organization, and activities as the Administrator may deem necessary to 

effectuate the purpose of the Act. 

4. In order that the Code Authority shall at all times be truly 

representative of the Industry and in other respects comply with 

the provisions of the Act, the Administrator may prescribe such hearing as he may deem proper; and thereafter if he shall find that the 

Code Authority is not truly representative or does not in other 

respects comply with the provisions of the Act, may require an 

appropriate modification in the method of selection of the Code 

Authority. 

5. It being found necessary, in order to support the admini tration 

of this Code and to maintain the tandards of fair competition established by this Code and to effectuate the policy of the Act, the Code 

Authority is authorized, subject to the approval of the Administrator: 

(a) To incur such reasonable obliO'ations as are necessary and 

proper for the foregoing purposes and to meet such obli rrations 

out of funds which may be raised as hereinafter provided and which 

shall be held in trust for the purposes of the Code; 
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(b) To submit to the Aclmini trator for his approval, subject to 

such notice and opportunity to be heard as he may deem necessary, 

(1) an itemized budget of its estimated expen ·es for the foregoing 

purpose , and (2) an equitable basis upon 11hich the funds necessary 

to support such budget shall be contributed by members of the 

Indu ·try; 

(c) After such budget and basis of ccntribu.-+ion ha' e been approved 

by the Administrator, to determine and secure equitable contribution 

as above set forth by all such members of the Industry, and to that 

end, if nece~ary, to institute legal proceedings therefor in its own 

name. 

Only members of the Industry complying with the Code and 

contributing to the expen es of its administration as provided above 

shall be entitled to participate in the selection of the members of the 

Code Authority or to receive the benefit of its voluntary activities 

or to make use of any emblem or insignia of the National Recovery 

Admjni tration. 

6. Nothing contained in this Code shall constitute the members 

of the Code Authority partners for any purpose. Nor shall any 

member of the Code Authority be liable in any manner to anyone 

for any act of any other member, officer, agent, or employee of the 

Code Authority. Nor shall any member of the Code Authority, 

exercising reasonable diligence in the conduct of his duties hereunder, be liable to anyone for any action or omission to act under 

this Code, except for his own willful malfeasance or nonfeasance. 

7. If the 'Administrator shall determine that any action of the 

Code Authority or any agency thereof may be unfair or unjust or 

contrary to the public interest, the Administrator may require that 

such action be suspended to afford an opportunity for investigation 

of the merits of such action and further consideration by the Code 

Authority or agency pending final action which shall not be effective unless the Administrator approves or unless he shall fail to 

disapprove after thirty days' notice to him of intention to proceed 

with such action in its original or modified form. 

8. The Code Authority shall have the following further powers 

and duties: 

(a) To insure the execution of the provisions of this Code and to 

provide, subject to rules and regulations established by the Administrator, for the compliance of the Industry with the provisions 

of the Act: Provided, however, that this shall not be construed 

to deprive duly authorized governmental agencies of their power 

to enforce the provisions of this Code or of the Act. 

(b) To adopt by-laws and rules and regulations for its procedure 

and for the administration and enforcement of the Code. 

(c) To btain from membors of the Indu try such information 

and reports as are required for the administration of the Code. In addition to information r equired to be submitted to the Code 

Authority, members of the In lustry subject to this Code shall fur- nish such statistical information as the Administrator may deem 

nece ary for the purposes recited in Section 3 (a) of the Act to 

such Federal and State agencies as he may designate; provided that 

nothing in this Code shall relieve any member of the I ndustry of 

any existing obligation to furnish reports to any Government 
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Agency. No individual reports shall be disclosed to any other member of the Industry or any other party except to such governmental 

agencies as may be directed by the President or the Administrator. 

(d) To use such trade associations and other agencies as it deems 

proper for the carrying out of any of its activities provided for 

herein, provided that nothing herein shall relieve the Code Authority 

of its duties or responsibilities under this Code and that such trade 

. associations and agencies shall at all times be subject to and comply 

with the provisions hereof. 

(e) To make recomn1endutions to the Administrator for the coordination of the administration of this Code with such other codes, 

if any, as may be related to or affect members of the Industry. 

(f) To cooperate with the Administrator in regulating the use of 

the N.R.A. in ignia solely by those members of the Industry who 

have assented to, and are complying with, this Code. 

(g) To recomme:pd to the Administrator any action or measure 

deemed advisable, including further fair trade practice provisions to 

govern members of the Industry in their relations with each other or 

with other Industries, measures for industrial planning, and stabilization of employment; and including modifications of this Code, 

which shall become effective as a part hereof upon approval by the 

Administrator after such notice and hearing as he may specify. 

ARTICLE VII-TRADE PRACTICES 

1. On or before ten days after the effective date of this Code, all 

members of the Industry shall file with the Code Authority a schedule 

of discounts from the standard price lists of the Canvas Stitched 

Belt Manufacturers, adopted October 1, 1929, together with all 

terms andjor conditions of sale for each weight of each standard 

competitive grade of Canvas Stitched Belting sold or offered for sale. 

A standard competitive grade of Canvas St1tched Belting is defined 

to mean the lowest priced Canva Stitched Belting manufactured 

of 37:Y2 ounce, 34 ounce, 32 ounce, and 26 ounce cotton duck. Any 

member of the Industry may revise his schedule at any time. Such 

revised schedule shall be deemed to have been filed and shall become 

effective immediately after registered letters containing such revised 

schedules shall have been maile l to the Code Authority and all other 

members of the Industry. 

No member of the Industry shall sell or offer for sale any standard competitive grade of Canvas Stitched Belting at more favorable 

discounts, terms, and/ or conditions of sale than those specified in the 

schedule filed with the Code Authority as hereinbefore provided. 

Any allowance to any purchaser for handling or consigned stock 

which re ults in a net price lower than the net price listed to the 

class to '"hich the purchaser belongs, shall be considered a violation 

of this provision. 

2. No member of the Industry shall manufacture any belting below 

38 ounce weight except when made of 37:Y2 ounce, 34 ounce, 32 ounce 

and 28 ounce cotton duck. Weight shall be· based on the commercial 

yard of 36 inches by 42 inches. 

3. No member of the Indu try shall give, permit to be given, or 

directly offer to give, anything of value for the purpose of influencing 
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or rewarding the action of any employee, agent, or representative 

of another in relation to the business of the employer of such em- plo} ee, the principal of such agent or the represented party, without 

the knowledge of such employer, principal, or party. This provision shall not be construed to prohibit free and general distribution 

of articles commonly used for advertising except so far as such article are actually used for commercial bribery as hereinabove defined. 

4. No member of the Industry shall use advertising (whether 

printed, radio, display, or of any other nature) or other representation which is inaccurate in any material particular or in any way 

mi represent any commodity (including its use, trade mark, grade, 

quality, quantity, origin, size, substance, character, nature, finish, 

material content, or preparation), or credit terms, values, policies, 

services, or the nature or form of the business conducted. 

AnTICLE VIII-MoDIFICATION 

1. This Code and all the provisions thereof are expressly made 

subject to the right of the President, in accordance with the provisions of subsection (b) of Section 10 of the National Industrial 

Recovery Act, from time to time to cancel or modify any order, 

approval, license, rule, or regulation is ued under Title I of said 

Act and specifically, but without limitation, to the right of the 

President to cancel or 1nodify his approval of this Code or any conditions impo ed by him upon his approval thereof. 

2. After clue notice and hearing, this Code, except as to provisions 

required by the Act, may be modified on the basis of experience or 

changes in circumstances ; such modifications shall be based on the 

recommendation of the Code Authority or of any interested party 

or group or on the Administrator's own initiative and shall become 

effective on approval by the Administrator. 

ARTICLE IX-MONOPOLIES 

No provision of this Code shall be so applied as to permit monopolies or monopolistic practices, or to eliminate, oppress, or discriminate against small enterprises. 

ARTICLE X-EFFECTIVE DATE 

This Code shall become effective on the second Monday after its 

approval. . 

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