Evening star., 1933-10-24
ARTICLE TX.
TRADE PRACTICES.

TRADE PRACTICES.
All retailers shall comply with the
following trade practices:
Section l. Advertising and Selling
MethodS.-(a) No retailer shall use ad.
vertising, whether printed, radio or dis
play or of any other nature, which is
inaccurate in any material particular
or mlsrepresents merchandise including
It's use, trade mark, grade, quality,
quantity, size, origin, material, content.
preparation or curative or therapeutic
efecD or credit terms, values policies
or services; and no retailer shall use
advertising and /or selling methods
which tend to receive or mislead the
customer
(b) No retailer shall use advertising
which refers inaccurately in any ma
terlal particular to any competitor or
his merchandise. prices. values, credit
terms, policies or services.
Co No retailer shall use advertising
which inaccurately lays claim to a pol
icy or continuing practice OF generally
underSelling competitors
Cd No retailer shall secretly give
anything of value to the employe or
agent of a customer for the purpose Of
influencing a sale. or in furtherance of
q sale render bill or statement of ac-
count to the employe, agent or Gus
toner which is inaccurate in any mate
rial particular.
(e5 No retailer shall place obstacles
III the way of the purchase Of a product
which a consumer orders by brand
name by urging upon the consumer a
substitute product in manner which
diSparageS the product ordered.
Section 2. N. r. A. Label.-No re-
taller shall purchase, sell or exchange
yoaYchandiSa manufacturers under
a code of fair competition which re-
quireS such merchandise to bear an N.
R. A. label. unless said merchandise
bears such label. Any retailer right
fully possessing the insignia of the N.
r. A. who has in stock or purchases
similar merchandise which has been
manufactured before the effective date
Of the code Of fair competition reQuir-
ing such merchandise to bear an N. r.
A. label may attach thereto the N. r. A.
insignia.
Section 3. Prison made Goods
Pending the formulation OF comPact
or code between the several States OF
the United States to insure the manu-
facture and sale Of prIson-made ;fS ds goodds
no not so Ai5 produced. oice the foilowing pTovi-
sions of this section will be stayed Tor
ninety 900 days. or further at the dis
cretion of the administrator:
Ca) Where any penal, ,reformatory or
correctional institution, either by sub
scribing to the code or compact herem-
before referred to, or By a binding
agreement of any other nature, satlsleS
the administrator that merchandise pro-
duced in such institution or by the in
mates thereof will not be sold except
upon a fair competitive basis with SINH
lar merchandise not so produced, the
provisions Of paragraph Cb) hereof
shall not apply to any merchandise
produced in such manner in the 1nstl-
tutions covered by such agreement.
(b) Except as provided in the fore:
going paragraph, no retailer snalI
knowingly buy or contract to buy any
merchandise produced in whole or In
part in a penal. reformatory or correc-
tional institution After May 81, 1884,
no retailer shall knowingly sell or offer
for sale such merchandise. Nothing In
this section, however, shall affect con-
tracts, which the retailer does not nave
the option to cancel made with respect
to such merchandise before the approval
of this code by the President OF the
United States
Cc) Nothing in this section shall be
construed to supersede or interfere with
the operation of the act OF Congress
approved January 10, 1929, being Pubic
No. $50 Of the Seventieth Congress ana
entitled An Act to Divest Goods, wares
and Merchandise Manufactured, Pro-
duced or Mined by Convicts or Prison.
ers of Their Interstate Character IN
Certain Cases" which act Is known as
the Hawes-Cooper act or the provisions
of any State legislation enacted under.
or effective upon, the effective date OF
the said Hawes- Cooper act. the said eI-
fective date being January 10, 1884
section 4. Company Scrip.-The foi:
lowing provisions Of this section shau
not become effective until March J.,
1894 Pending such effective date the
administrator shall appoint a commit
tee of not more than three persons 10
investigate the economic and social I'M:
plications of these provisions. Salo
committee may make recommendations,
based upon its investigations, and such
recommendations shall. upon approval
by the President of the United States.
become effective in the place OF these
provisions: ,.u
ment for merchandise any non-nego-
liable scrip, company checks or otner
evidence Of wage payment issued by any
Individual or private profit organization
in payment Of wages or as an ADVANCE
ypOp unearned wages. a iicsOC!6otC ~
sfrument issued bv any 1ndiv1dual OF
nriyate profit organization in payment
Of wages shall be accepted only II = 1t !; !;
payable in cash within one montn Gi d
The date of issue This paragraph snaii
not not apply in cases where the cash funds
OF any individual or organization are re
rendered temporarily unavailable Que 70
the closing by State or Federal order OF
the hank in which such funds are de-
posted. .x..ud .r.d,t IN
+re form of goods money or services to
anv person other than its own employees
engaged exclusively in the sa resah ~ sraae nsrt
~ all of said persons future wages. or
pursuant to a wage deduction arrange
ment entered into with said employer
unIess an identical guarantee or wage
deduction arrangement is available to
Ill retailers.
ARTICLE K.
ADMINISTRATION.
Tho following provisions for the ad-
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