Evening star., 1934-07-12

BY virtue Of the authority vested
in me as administrator for industrial
recovery under title 1 Of the national
industrial recovery act and 70 sup
plement administrative order No.
X-6l. dated July 10. 1884. and the
basic code annexed thereto. it is
hereby ordered that;
/. The General N. r A. Code Au-
thority, provided for in article " of
said basic code. shall be appointed by
the administrator and shall serve
without expense to the industries sub
ject to such code
2 Such code authority shall have
the following powers and duties:
(a) To insure the execution Of the
provisions Of the code and to provide
for the compliance of the trade in
dustry with the provisions Of the act.
(b) To adopt bylaws and rules and
regulations for its procedure.
(c) To obtain from members of the
trade industry such information and
reports as are required for the ad-
mInistration of the code. In addition
to information required to be sub
mitted TO the code authority. men,
bers of the trade industry subject to
said basic code shall furnish such sta
tistic information as the administrator
may deem necessary for the purposes
recited in section (a) of the act to
such Federal and State agencies as
he may designate; provided that moth
ing in the code shall relieve any MEM
ber of the trade industry of any exist
ing obligations to furnish reports to
any Government agency. No individ-
ual report shall be disclosed to any
other member of the trade industry
or any other party except to such
other Government agencies as may
be directed by the administrator.
I'd The General N. r. A. Code Au
thority shall submit to the admins
traitor within 80 days after the ap-
proval OF this basic code a list of
industries covered by the basic code,
in which work on any part of the
product Is performed in the home
and/or work is contracted out. The
General N. r. A. Code Authority may
also submit a list Of special problems
affecting particular industries operat-
ing under the basic code. and recon-
mendations pertaining thereto.
(e) To make recommendations to
the administrator for the co-ordina-
ton of the administration Of the code
and such other codes, If any, as may
be related to or affect members OF
the trade industry.
Cf) To recommend to the admin
istrator any action or measure deemed
advisable including further fair trade
practice provisions to govern members
of the tradeiindustry in their rela-
tions with each other or with other
trades industries; measures for indus
trial planning, and stabilization OF
employment.
b. Open Price Filing.
As provided for in section (b) Of
article v of said basic code, prices.
rebates, discounts, commissions and
conditions of sale shall be filed in ac-
cordance with the following pro-
visions:
|. Each member of the trade in
dustTy shall file withaA confidential
and disinterested agent Of the code
authority or, if none. then with such
an agent designated by the admin
istrator, identified lists of all of his
prices, discounts, rebates, allowances,
and all other. terms orr conditions OF
sale. hereinafter in this article re-
ferred to- as price terms" which
lists shall completely and accurately
conform to and represent the indivi-
dual pricing practices of said
member.
Such lists shall contain the price
terms for all such standard products
of the industry as are sold or offered
for sale by said member and for such
non-standard products of said men,
Der as shall be designated by the code
authority. Said price terms shall in
the first instance be filed within 80
days after the date of approval OF
this provision. Price terms and re-
vised price terms shall become
effective Immediately upon receipt
thereof by said agent. 1mmedi-
ately upon receipt thereof said
agent shall by telegraph or other
equally prompt means notify said
member Of the time of such re-
ceipt. Such lists and reviSions, to-
gether with the effective time thereof,
shall upon receipt be Immediately and
simultaneously distributed to all MEM
bers of the industry and to all OF
their customers who have applied
therefor and have offered to defray
the cost actually incurred by the code
authority in the preparation ana dls-
tribution thereof and be available for
inspection by any Of their customers
at the office of such agent.
Said lists or revisions or any part
thereof shall not be made available
to any person until released to all
members of the industry and their
customers. as are said; provided that
prices filed in the first instance shall
not be released until the expiration
of the aforesaid 30-day period after
the approval of this code.
The code authority shall maintain
a permanent file of all price terms
filed as herein provided, and shall not
destroy any part Of such records ex-
cept upon written consent OF the ad-
ministrator Upon request the code
authority shall furnish to the admin
istrator or any duly designated agent
of the administrator copies Of any
such lists or revisions of price terms.
2. When anYmember Of the trade/
industry has filed any revision, such
member shall not file higher price
within forty-eight (48) hours
3. No member of the trade indus
try shall sell or offer to sell any prod
uct, services of the trade ind ustry, for
which price terms have been filed
pursuant to the provisions Of this
article, except in accordance with
such price terms.
4. No member of the industry shall
enter into any agreement, under
standing. combination or conspiracy
to fix or maintain price terms. nor