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Approved Code No. 16-Amendment No. 5 Registry No. 241-'.>2 

NATIONAL RECOVERY ADMINISTRATION 

AMENDMENT TO 

CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

HOSIERY INDUSTRY 

AS APPROVED ON MARCH 8, 1935 

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Approved Code No. 16-Amendment No. 5 

AMENDMENT TO CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

HOSIERY INDUSTRY 

As Approved on March 8, 1935 

ORDER 

APPROYIXG AMEXDMENT OF CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION FOR THE 

HOSIERY INDUSTRY 

An application having been duly made pursuant to and in full 

compliance with the provisions of Title I of the National Industrial 

Recovery Act, approved June 16, 1933 for approval of an amendment to a Code of Fair Competition for the Hosi 0 ry Industry, and 

hearings having been duly held thereon and the annexed report on 

said amendment, containing findings with respect thereto, having 

been made and directed to the President: 

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

States, the National Industrial Recovery Board, pursuant to authority vested in it by Executive Orders of the President, including 

Executive Order No. 6859, and otherwise; does hereby incorporate, 

by reference, said annexed report, and does find that said amendment 

und the Code as constituted after being amended comply in all 

respects with the pertinent provisions and will promote the policy 

and purposes of said Title of said Act, and does hereby order that 

aid amendment be and it is hereby approved, and that the pervious 

approYal of said Code is hereby amended to include an approval of 

8aicl Code in its entirety as amended. 

N ATION"AL INDUSTRIAL RECOVERY BOARD, 

By ,v. A. H.ARRil\IAN, Adm,inistrative Officer. 

Approval recommended: 

PREXTISS L. COONLEY, 

Divisional Ad1ninistrator. 

,v ASHJNGTON, D. c., 

March 8, 1935. 

120146°-1603- 53-35 (1) 
REPORT TO TIIE PRESIDE.LTT 

The PnE IDENT 

The White House. 

Sm: Thi is a report on the Hearin()" con-ring th .Amen lment 

to the Code 0£ Fair Competition £or the Hosier>' Indn.·try hcl l in 

Room 3204, Department 0£ Commerce Building ,Ya hin°ton D. C. 

Friday 1\1arch 9, 193±. (Afternoon e ion.) The Amendm nt, 

which i attached, was presented bj a duly qualified and authorize 1 

repre entatiYe of the Code Authority for the Ho iery Industry, complying with statutory requirements and being the Ao·en y that is 

admini tering the Code. 

In accordance with cu tomary procedure every per on who had 

filed a reque t for appearance wa freely heard in public and all 

statutory and regulatory requirements were complied with. 

PROYISIONS OF THE A IEXDl\IENT 

The amendment fixes the working hour and minimum wages of 

those employees previou ly excepted from the wage and hour provisions of the Code such as repair shop crews, engineer , electricians, 

etc. 

FI DINGS 

The Deputy Administrator in his final report to the ational Industrial Recovery Board on said amendments to aid Code having 

found as herein set forth and on the ba is of all the proceedings in 

this matter: 

The National Industrial RecoYery Board finds that: 

(a) The amendment to said Code and the Code a amended are 

well designed to promote the policies and purposes of Title I 0£ 

the National Industrial Recovery ct including the removal of ob-

-truction to the free flow of interstate and foreign commerce which 

tend to diminish the amount thereof, and will provide for the general welfare by promotino· the organization of inclu. try for the 

purpo e of cooperatiYe action among trade grouI by inducing and 

maintaining united action of labor and management under adequate 

governmental anction and upervi ion, by eliminating unfair competitive practices, by promoting the fullest pos ible utilization of 

the pre. ent productive capacity of indu tries, by avoiding undue 

restriction of production ( except as may be temporarily required) 

by increa ing the consumption of indu trial and agricultural prodnet through increasing purchasing power, by reducing and relieving unemployment by improving the tandards of labor and by 

otherwi e rehabilitating indu try. 

(b) The Code a amended complies in all re pects with the pertinent provi ion of said Title of aid Act, including without limita-

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tion Subsection (a) of Section 3, Sub ection (a) of Section 7, and 

Subsection (b) of Section 10 thereof. 

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

( d) The amendment and the Code as amended are not designed 

to and will not permit monopolies or monopolistic practices. 

( e) The amendment and the Cor:le as amended are 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 

amendment. 

For those reasons this amendment has been approved. 

For the National Industrial Recovery B oard: 

MARCH 8, 1935. 

,v. A. HARRIMAN, 

Administrative Officer. 
Al\1E Dl\1E JT TO CODE OF FAIR CO~fPETITION FOR 

THE HOSIERY IND STRY 

Amend ARTICLE IV, by cancelling S tion 1 2, 3, 4, and 6, 

nnd substituting therefor the follmYing: 

1. No person in the Hosiery Indu ·try hall employ any employee 

in productive operations in exce s of forty ( 40) hour per week. 

2. (a) No per on employed in clerical or oflice "ork ·hall be permitted to work in excess of forty ( 40) hour in any one ( 1) week, 

except that during six ( 6) weeks of the period beo-inning January 

1 an l ending June 30 of any year an l during ix ( 6) weeks of the 

period beginning July 1 and ending December 31 of any year, uch 

employees may be permitted to work not more than an additional 

<'ight (8) hours per week, provided that not le. than one and onehalf (11⁄2) time the calculable hourly rate for uch employee i 

paid for any and all uch additional hour a · may be vrnrkecl. The 14 hourly rate" shall be calculated by diYiding the weekly alary or 

wage of the employee by forty ( 40). 

(b) The provi ions of thi Article hall not apply to out ·ide salesmen or to person employed in a supervi ory, manngerial or executive capacity who regularly earn thirty-five dollar · ($35.00) per 

week or more. 

( c) Persons employed in a supervisory capa ity "holly enga~ed 

in non-productive work who regularly earn le than thirty-hve 

dollars ($35.00) per week but not less than fifty cent ($0.50) per 

hour, al o engineer , firemen, electrician machini t , repair-shop 

men, hipping force, cleaners and outside worker hall not be per1~1itted to work in excess of forty-four ( 44) hours in any one (1) 

week. 

(cl) ,v a tchmen shall not be permitted to work in exce. · of fiftyix (56) hour in any one (1) week, nor hall any "atchmen be permitted to work in excess of ix (6) days in any even (7) clay period. 

3. Employees when engaged in emergency maintenance and 

repair work, involving breakdowns or protection of life or I roperty, 

may be permitted to work in exce ·s of the maximum number of hour 

pre ·cribe 1 by this Code, pr viclecl that all uch extra hour are 

·ompensated for at n t le than one and one-half (11/2 ) time the 

regular or calculable hourly rate. In the ca e of an employee not 

paid regularly on an hourly ba .i. hi hourly rat hall be calculated 

by diYiding his weekly pay by the number hour he ma) ·work per 

we~k under the provisions of the Code. 

4. (a) Dyehou e worker may be employed in exce of forty 

(40) hour per week only to the extent nece ary to finish a batch 

~r to complete a continuous proce , provided that all hours beyond 

1-orty ( 40) per week be com pen ·ated for at not le than one and 

one-half (11⁄2) time the regular or calculable hourly rate. The 

hourly rate ' hall be calculated by dividing the weekly alary or 

wac;e by forty ( 40). 

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(b) Machine fixers may be employed in excess of forty-four ( 44) 

hours per week only to the extent necessary to make machine 

repairs and machine changes, provided that all hours beyond nine 

(9) per day or forty-four (44) per we€k be paid for at not less 

than one and one-half (11⁄2) times the regular or calculable hourly 

rate. The "hourly rate" shall be calculated by dividing the weekly 

salary or wage by forty-four ( 44). 

6. The productive operations of a plant shall not exceed two (2) 

shifts of forty ( 40) hours each per week. The work week for productive operations shall not exceed five ( 5) days of eight ( 8) hours 

each. These days shall be :Monday to Friday, inclusive, except in 

those states where the state laws operate to prevent the operation 

of two forty ( 40) hour shifts within the mentioned five ( 5) days. 

In such states, employers may operate one shift on Saturday, not 

to exceed six ( 6) hours ending at noon, provided that such employers 

utilize the maximum hours possible under state laws and under 

this Code in the preceding five ( 5) days, and provided further~ 

that in no event shall total machine hours exceed eighty ( 80) hours 

in any one week in any plant. 

Amend ARTICLE V, Section 9, by cancelling the present Section 

9 and substituting therefor the following: 

9. The minimum wages of all employees not specified in Sections 

1 and 2 of this Article, on the basis of forty ( 40) hours' labor 

per week, shall be at the f ollow.ing rates : 

Engineers _______________________________________________ ) 

Electricians --------------------------------------------- North ~iac~inists ______________________________________________ $lS.00 

Repa1rshop men ____ ____________ _____ _____ ________ ______ _ 

Skilled Dyehouse wol'kers (including dyeing machine and kettle operators) ______________________________________ _ Office workers __________________________________________ _ Firemen _____ __ __________ __ ____________________ __ ___ ____ _ 

Unskilled Dyehouse workers _____________________________ _ Shipping Force __________________________________________ $13.00 

Watchmen ___________________________________________ ___ _ Cleaners _________________________________________ __ ____ _ 

Outside workers ---------------------------------------- All others ________ ______________________________________ _ 

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