NATIONAL RECOVERY ADMINISTRATION 

CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

GARMENT PRESSING MACHINE 

AND APPLIANCE INDUSTRY 

AS SUBMITTED AUGUST 24, 1933 

REGISTRY No. 1399-1-14 

The Code for the Garment Pressing Machine and Appliance 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 

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U.S. DEPOS'iTORY 

UNI ED STATES 

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 

WASHINGTON : 1933 

For sale by the S uperintendent of Documen ts, Washington, D. C. - - - - - - - - Price 5 cents 

CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION FOR GARMENT PRESSING 

MACHINERY AND APPLIANCE INDUSTRY 

For the purpose of effectuating the policy of the National Industrial Recovery Act by improving the standards of labor and eliminating certain destructive practices inimical to the interests of the 

public, employees and employers, the following provisions are established as a Code of fair competition for the "Garment Pressing 

Machinery and Appliance Industry." 

I. DEFINITIONS 

(a) The term " Garment Pressing Machinery and Appliance Inlustry" as used herein is defined to mean a manufacturer of garment 

pressing machines and equipment, whether manual or mechanical; 

boilers, vacuum systems, and other appurtenances used in connection 

with such machines, and persons engaged in the rebuilding andjor 

,sale of machines aforesaid, exclusive of domestic and laundry irons 

and machines. 

(b) The term ' persons" shall include natural persons, partnerships, associations, and corporations. 

(c) The term" Clothing Contractor and Manufacturer" shall include all persons engaged in the business of the manufacture of 

mens, women's, and children's wearing apparel, including coats, 

suits, cloaks, wraps, shirts, dresses, and similar articles of wearing 

apparel. 

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This Code shall take effect the eleventh day after the same shall 

have been approved by the President of the United States. 

III. LABOR 

(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 purpose 

of collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection; that no 

employees 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 that employer shall comply with the maximum 

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

the effective date employer hall not employ any per on under the 

age of 16 years. 

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(b) On and after the effective date hereof the minimum wage that 

shall be paid by employers to any person engaged in the processing 

of the products of the Garment Pressing Machinery and Appliance 

Industry, and in labor operations incidental thereto, shall be 45 c 

an hour, provided, however, that casual and incidental labor and 

learners may be paid not less than 80% of such minimum wage, but 

the total amount paid to such casual or incidental laborers and 

learners shall not exceed in any calendar month five per cent of the 

total wages paid to all process labor. 

(c) Maximum hours of labor on and after the effective date for 

persons engaged in the processing of products of the "Garment 

Pressing Machinery and Appliance Industry" and in labor operations incidental thereto shall be 40 hours per week for labor operating 

within a plant and 44 hours per week for labor engaged in work 

without a plant. 

(d) Maximum hours of labor on and after September 1st, 1933, 

for all other employees except executive, admini trative, and supervisory employees and travelling salesmen shall be 40 hours per week. 

(e) Provided, however, that these limitation shall not apply to 

those branches of the garment-pressing machinery and appliance 

industry in which seasonal or peak demand places an unusual and 

temporary burden for production upon such branches; in such case 

no employee shall be permitted to work more than an aggregate of 

144 hours per year in excess of limitations hereinbefore provided 

and provided further that such limitations hall not apply in ca e 

of emergency. At the end of each calendar month every employer 

shall report to the supervisory agency, hereinafter provided for, in 

such detail as may be required, the number of man hours worked in 

that month for emergency reasons and the ratio which said emergency 

man hours bears to the total number of man hours of labor during 

said month. 

IV 

With a view to keeping the President of the United States and the 

Administrator informed as to the observance or nonob rvance of 

this Code, and as to whether the Garment Pressing Machinery and 

Appliance Industry is taking appropriate steps to effectnate in all 

respects the declared policy of the National Recovery Act, each employer shall prepare and file with such person or organization as the 

supervisory agency may designate and at such times and in such 

manner as may be prescribed, statistics of number of per on employed, wage rates, hours of work, costs, prices quoted, contracts 

made, and such other similar statistical data as the upervisory 

agency may from time to time require. 

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Except as otherwise provided in theN ational Industrial Recov ry 

Act, all statistical data filed in accordanc with the provi ion of 

Article IV shall be confidential and the data of one employer hall 

not be revealed to any other employer except that for the purpo of 

admini tering or enforcing the provisions of this Code the super-
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visory agency, by it duly authorized representatives, shall have 

access to any and all tati tical data that may be furnished in accordance with the provision of this Code. 

VI 

Any employer may participate in this Code and in any revisions or 

additions thereto and receive the benefits thereof by accepting the 

proper pro rata share of the cost and responsibility of creating and 

administering it by becoming a member of " Clothes Pressing Machinery and Appliance Association." 

VII 

Every employer shall use an accounting system and a costing system. which conforms to the principles of and is at least as detailed and 

complete as the uniform and standard method of accounting and 

the uniform and standard method of costing to be formulated or approved by the supervisory agency, with such variations therefrom 

as may be required by the individual conditions affecting any employer or group of employers and as may be approved by the supervisory agency and make such supplements to the said formulated or 

approved methods of accounting and costing. 

VIII. SALES ON DEFERRED PAYME~TS 

It shall be considered unfair competition to sell or dispo e of any 

machinery on deferred payments unless the terms of payment as 

hereinafter set forth are adhered to. 

(a) On the sale of a garment pressing machine to a neighborhood 

tailor, neighborhood valet, neighborhood tailoring store or any per ·on 

engaged in the ale at retail of articles of wearing apparel, the initial 

down payment on such machine shall be as follows: On sales of 

machinery up to $199.00, thirty percent of the net amount of the 

contract; on sales from $200.00 up to and including $599.00 $75.00; 

and on sales amounting to $600.00 or more, $100.00. On sales of 

machines "F.O.B. Factory" the minimum down payment hall be 

$50.00, "F.O.B. Factory". In computing the price of such sale the 

cost of installation shall be included. Trade-ins shall not be considered part of the down payn1ent. The aforementioned down payment 

applies to single machines, and in the event more than one machine 

is sold, an individual down payment shall be required on each machine sold, computed on the selling price of said machine, to be computed on the basis aforementioned. All sale referred to a sales of 

pressing machines shall include the nece sary accessorie and appurtenances thereto. 

(b) On sale and installations of 1nachinery, to clothing contractors and manufacturers, where three or more machine are old, the 

down payment shall not be less than thirty percent of the total 

amount of the entire purchase price, which purchase price shall include the labor charges in connection with the installation of the same. 

In the event however, le s than three machines are sold: then the 

minimum down payment shall be $75.00 on each machine o old. 
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Trade-ins are not to be considered part of the down payment; for the 

purpose of computing the down payment aforementioned the net 

amount of the contract shall be considered the selling price of the 

machinery. 

(c) All sales referred to as sales of pressing 1nachines shall include 

the necessary accessories and appurtenances thereto, such as boilers, 

motors, blowers, vacumn systems. 

(d) On all sales made as set forth in Subdivision " a" payment 

shall be made in equal monthly installments with a minimum payment of $20.00 per month; on all sales made as set forth in Subdivision " b " the minimum monthly installments shall be $25.00 per 

month, with the proviso that the full contract priee of machines sold 

as set forth in Subdivision" b" shall be paid within eighteen months 

from the date of the contract. Interest at the rate of 6% per 

annum shall be charged on all unpaid balances. The first installment payment to be made on all sales not later than six weeks after 

the date of delivery. 

IX. INDUCING BREACH OF CONTRACT 

(a) It shall be considered tmfair competition for any person to 

induce a customer to breach a prior contract of purchase· entered 

into, by offering a guarantee to hold him harmless because of such 

breach of contract, or by the payment of any moneys to procure 

such breach for the purpose of procuring an order for the sale of 

merchandise. 

(b) It shall be considered unfair •competition for any person to 

offer any rebate, refund, or lower price to any customer in order to 

induce such customer to breach a prior contract of sale. 

(c) For the purposes set forth in paragraphs IX-a and IX-b, the 

acts of any agent or salesman will be •considered the act of the 

person or firm whom he represents. 

(d) It shall be considered unfair competition for any person to 

deliver any newly developed article or machine on approval for a 

period in excess of thirty days from date of installation. Regular 

terms will be stipulated on the trial order and will be effective when 

the machine is accepted. If machine is not accepted at the end of 

thirty days, the same is to be removed by the manufacturer. For 

the .purpose of this subdivision, an article or machine will be considered newly developed for a period not exceeding two years from 

the date on and after the installation of the first one produced. 

(e) It shall be considered unfair competition for any person to 

sell any machine or accessory as a .second-hand machine or as a used 

sample or a machine used for demonstration purposes when the same 

is not actually as aforementioned or in any manner, shape, or form 

to wilfully misdescribe any machine or acce sory for the purpose of 

inducing the purchase thereof. 

XI 

Such of the provisions of this Code as are not required by the 

National Industrial Recovery Act to be included therein may be 

modified or eliminated with the approval of the President of the 

United States as changed circumstances or experience may indicate. 
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A study of the trade practices of the industry will be continued by 

the "Clothes Pressing Machinery and Appliance Industry", for the 

pur-pose of submitting from time to time such amendments or ad litions to this Code applicable to the industry affected hereby or 

stlpplemental Codes applicable to any branch o.f said industry. The 

"Clothes Pressing Machinery and Appliance Industry " on the basis 

of its study of the trade practices of the industry may formulate 

such rules and regulations concerning the practice of fair competition, 

as may be advisable from time to time. 

The supervisory agency for the purpose of encouraging fair competition shall be empowered to formulate lists of trade-in values to 

be followed by employers on sales of machinery. The supervi ory 

agency shall also be empowered to formulate rules for the exchanging, filing, and distribution of price lists and discount ,sheets. 

If any employer of labor in this industry is also an employer of 

labor in· any other industry, provisions of this Code shall apply and 

affect only that part of such person's business which is included in 

the Garment Pressing Machinery and Appliance Industry. 

XI. The " Clothes Pres ing Machinery and Appliance Industry " 

is hereby designated the agency for administering, supervising, and 

promoting the performance of the provisions of this Code by the 

members of the "Garment Pressing Machinery and Appliance 

Indutsry." 

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