Approved Code No. !56-Amendment No.1 Registry No. 899-04 

NATIONAL RECOVERY ADMINISTRATION 

AMENDMENT TO 

CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

RUBBER MANUFACTURING 

INDUSTRY 

AS APPROVED ON APRIL 30, 1934 

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Approved Code No. 156-Amendment No. 1 

AMENDMENT TO CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

RUBBER MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY 

As Approved on April 30, 1934 

ORDER 

AMENDMENT TO CoDE OF FAIR CoMPETITION FOR THE RuBBER MANUFACTURIKG 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 Rubber Manufacturing 

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, 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 amendment and 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 do hereby order that said amendment be and 

it is hereby approved, and that the previous approval of said Code 

is hereby modified to include an approval of said Code in its entirety 

as amended. 

HUGH S. JOHNSON' 

Administrator for Industrial R ecovery. 

Approval recommended: 

K. M. SIMPSON' 

Division Adrninistrator. 

WAsmNGTON, D.O., 

April 30, 1934. 

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REPORT TO THE PRESIDENT 

The PRESIDENT, 

The White House. 

SrR: The Public Hearing on an amendment to Chapter X of the 

Code of Fair Competition for the Rubber Manufacturing Industry, 

as proposed by the Divisional Code Authority for the Rainwear 

Division of this Industry, was conducted on Tuesday, March 20, 1934, 

in Room 3208, Department of Commerce Building, Washington, 

D.C. Every person who requested an appearance was properly 

heard in accordance with the regulations of the National Recovery 

Administration. There were present duly authorized representatives 

of the Divisional Code Authority. 

Chapter X of the Code of Fair Competition for the Rubber Manufacturing Industry, approved December 15, 1933, provided for the 

submission of a lahel clause at a later date. The Divisional Code 

Authority for the Rainwear Division submitted an amendment embodying such a clause. · The Deputy Administrator in his final report to me on said amendment to Chapter X of said Code, having found as herein set forth 

and on the basis of all the proceedings in this amendment: 

I find that: 

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

well designed to promote the "[lolicies and purposes of Title I of the 

National Industrial Recovery Act including the removal of obstructions to the free flow of interstate and foreign commerce which tend 

to diminish the amount thereof, and will provide for the general 

welfare by promoting the organization of industry for the purpose 

of cooperative action among 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 unemployment, by improving standards of labor, and by otherwise rehabilitating industry. 

(b) The Code as amended complies in all respects with the per· 

tinent 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. 

(c) The Code empowers the Divisional Code Authority to present 

the aforesaid amendment on behalf of the Division as a whole. 

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

and will not permit monopolies or monopolistic practices. 

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(e) The amendment and the Code 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 these reasons, this amendment has been approved. 

Respectfully, 

APRIL 30, 1934. 

HuGH S. JoHNSON, 

Administrator. 
:AMENDMENT TO CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION FOR 

THE RUBBER MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY 

CHAPTER X 

ARTICLE IV 

F. Use of Labels 

SECTION 1. In accordance with the provisions of this Article IV-F, 

no product of the Division shall be sold or shipped by any member 

of the Division unless said product bears an N.R.A. label as hereinafter provided, to indicate that said product has been manufactured and sold or shipped in compliance with the provisions of this 

Code. Except in the case of products manufactured prior to the 

effective date, such label shall be conspicuously sewn on or otherwise 

firmly affixed to such product at the time when and place where 

said product is manufactured, and shall remain affixed thereto when 

said product is sold or shipped by the member of the Division. In 

the case of products manufactured prior to the effective date, each 

such label shall be conspicuously sewn on or otherwise affixed to 

said product prior to the sale or shipment thereof by the member 

of the Division, and shall remain affixed thereto when said product 

is sold or shipped by said member. For the purpose of identifying 

the source of manufacture of said product, each such label shall bear 

a registration number in such manner and form as shall be determined 

by the Divisional Authority. A record of all registration numbers 

issued shall be maintained by the Divisional Authority in the custody of the Rubber Manufacturers' Association. Such record shall 

n ot be disclosed except to the Administrator or other governmental 

authority, or to the Divisional Authority or any duly appointed 

agent or agency thereof. 

SECTION 2. (a) The Divisional Authority shall have exclusive 

authority to grant permits to use such N.R.A. labels and to issue 

euch labels. No member of the Division shall affix any such label 

to any product of the Division unless the same shall have been duly 

issued to him by the Divisional Authority, and except in accordance 

with the terms of a permit to use such labels granted to him by the 

Divisional Authority. Upon application by any member of the 

Division for such a permit and for such labels, such permit shall be 

granted and such labels issued to him, but only if and for so long 

as he complies with the provisions of this Code, and with all rules 

and regulations adopted hereunder. 

(b) The Divisional Authority, with the approval of the Administrator, shall determine the form of such permits and labels and 

shall e tabli h rules and re!!ulations and appropriate machinery for 

the granting of such permits and the issuance of such labels. In 

such rules and regulations, the Di' isional Authority shall provide 

for the inspection and upervision of the practices of members of 

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the Division using such labels in complying with the provisions of 

the Code, for the purposes of a certaining ·whether such members 

are entitled to the continued use of said labels, and protecting purchasers in their reliance upon said labels. In such rules an regulations, the Divisional Authority shall likewise provide for a reasonable charge for such labels, which charge shall not exceed an 

amount necessary to cover the cost thereof, including cost of printing, distribution, administration and supervision, and the cost of 

reimbursing the Rubber Manufacturers Association, Inc., in as. isting 

the Divisional Authority in such supervision as hereinabove set forth. 

The charge made for such labels shall at all times be subject to 

the supervision and orders of the Administrator. 

(c) The Divisional Authority shall not deny any such permit or 

refuse to issue any such labels to any member of the industry applying therefor, on the ground of non-compliance by said member with 

any provision of this Code or any rule or regulation duly adopted 

hereunder, unless said Divisional Authority is, at the time of the 

refusal, prepared to certify to the Administrator a prima facie case 

of such non-compliance by said member. In the event that the Divisional Authority denies any such permit or refuses to issue such 

labels, a complete file showing the- alleged non-compliance by said 

member shall be certified to the Administrator not later than the day 

following said refusal for action by such governmental or administrative agency as the Administrator may direct. 

SEcTioN 3. Members of the Division shall not let out work to or 

cause products to be made by contractors unless the contractors agree 

to conform to and be bound by, and do in practice comply with, the 

provisions of this Article IV -F astoN. R. A. labels. Each member 

shall procure from the Divisional Authority such labels for use by 

all contractors to whom he lets out work or by whom he causes products to be made. Each m.ember shall keep a complete and accurate 

record of the registration numbers of all labels furnished by him to 

contractors as aforesaid) and shall at all times maintain a duplicate 

of such record on file with the Rubber Manufacturers' Association. 

Such duplicate shall not be disclosed except to the Administrator 

or other governmental agency, or to the Divisional Authority, or any 

duly appointed agent or agency thereof. 

SECTION 4. Upon demand by the Divisional Authority, any unused 

labels in the possession of any member of the Division or any contractor who shall have ceased to be entitled to use the same, whether 

because of retirement from operation · or because of non-compliance 

with this Code or any rule or regulation duly adopted thereunder, 

shall be immediately returned to said Divisional Authority, which 

shall redeem the same at the price at which such labels were originally issued. 

SECTION 5. This Article IV -F shall become effective twenty (20) 

days after the date of approval thereof by the Administrator. 

Approved Code No. 156 Amendment No. 1. 

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