Evening star., 1933-08-06
CHEATING EAGLE
ST|RS UNCLE SAM
Efforts Afoot to Have Offend
ers Publicly FIayed as
Early Curb.
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city alone at least 81 stores displaying
the Blue Eagle insignia had employed
no new help, but were keeping their
store doors open for shorter hours to
attempt to come within the provisions
of the code.
No information was available at ad-
ministration headquarters as to whether
the store owners were employing such
practice and still remaining within
the 52-hour minimum, or whether they
were actually violating the code while
still displaying the Blue Eagle.
Hammond, standing behind desk
piled inches deep with letters, reports
and statements, asserted that investi-
cations would be pushed at the earliest
moment.
"It will take us week or two to get
Strengthened out here" he said, but
once We do, we intend to see that the
people displaying the Blue Eagle are
living up to the spirit of their code.
I'VE don't intend to have the public
fooled on these things. If the display
ers of the insignia are cheating on 1t,
the flag will come down."
Elaborate provisions against unfair
competition are made in the tentative
code for the retail establishments. These
trade practice provisions were made
public yesterday, but do not become ef-
fective until the code is approved.
Wage and hour stipulations for the
retail dry goods. department. mail order,
speciality shop. mems clothing furnish
ings, furniture, hardware and shoe store
trades represented by the various ma
tional associations nave been approved
temporarily by Gen. johnson.
Trade Practice Provisions.
The trade practice provisions Of the
code included:
Unfair competition.
"On and after the effective date OF
this code
"iA) No individual or organization
selling goods at retail shall sell any
merchandise at less than the next in
voice delivered cost or current market
delivered cost, whichever is lower, plus
10 per cent to insure that labor costs
shall be at least partially covered.
"(B) Nothing in the foregoing para
graph, however, shall be interpreted to
prevent bona fide seasonal clearances OF
merchandise SO advertised or plainly
marked or of highly perishable or
damaged goods so advertised or plainly
marked nor shall any individual or re-
tail organization for the purpose OF a
bona fide discontinuance of the ham
ding of any line when so advertised or
plainly marked be stopped from selling
said merchandise at,Jess than net in
voice delivered cost plus 10 per cent
to insure that labor costs at least shall
be partially covered.
"(C) Advertising written, printed.
radio or display which misrepresents
merchandise, values. policies or services,
or selling methods which tend to mislead
the consumer, shall not be made by any
individual or organization selling at re-
tail
"D) Organizations or individuals
selling goods at retail shall be free to
advertise truthfully their own goods,
policies. services and their own prices,
but reference to the goods. policies,
services or prices of competing retailers
shall not be made.
"(E) No individual or organization
selling goods at retail shall make use
of. participate In the use of, publish or
broadcast any statement which lays
claim to a policy or continuing prac-
tice of generally underselling COMPETE
tors.
"(FD No individual store or organiza-
tion selling goods at retail shall sell
convict or prison-made products
The code Is sponsored by the Ma
tional Retail Furniture Association,
National Retail Hardware Association,
Mail Order Association of America, Ma
tional Association Of Retail Clothiers
and Furnishers, National Retail Dry
Goods Association and National Shoe
Retailers Association.