UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA 
 
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 Registry No. 255—1—01 
 
 NATIONAL RECOVERY ADMINISTRATION 
 
 PROPOSED CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 
 
 FOR THE 
 
 CIRCULAR RAYON KNITTING 
 INDUSTRY 
 
 AS SUBMITTED ON AUGUST 31, 1933 
 
 The Code for the Circular Rayon Knitting; Industry 
 
 in its present form merely reflects the proposal of the above-mentioned 
 
 industry, and none of the provisions contained therein are 
 
 to be regarded as having received the approval of 
 
 the National Recovery Administration 
 
 as applying to this industry 
 
 UNITED STATES 
 
 GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 
 
 WASHINGTON : 1933 
 
 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, Washington, D.C. --.---_-. Price 5 cents 
 
Submitted by 
 
 ASSOCIATION OF RAYON CIRCULAR KNIT FABRIC MANUFACTURERS, 
 
 INC. 
 
 (H) 
 
PROPOSED CODE FOR THE CIRCULAR RAYON KNITTING 
 
 INDUSTRY 
 
 To effectuate the policy of Title 1 of the National Industrial Re- 
 covery Act during the period of the emergency by reducing and 
 relieving unemployment, and improving the standards of labor, the 
 following provisions are established as a code for the Circular Rayon 
 Knitting Industry : 
 
 I. The term " Circular Rayon Knitting Industry " as used herein 
 is defined to be the manufacture of fabrics or cloths from rayon or 
 other synthetic yarns in the grege or finished state — for sale as such — 
 by the use of circular knitting equipment. It specifically does not in- 
 clude those manufacturers who knit for their own use rayon or 
 synthetic cloths or fabrics incidental to manufacture of underwear 
 or other finished garments. 
 
 II. The term effective date " as used herein is defined to be on 
 the fourteenth day after this code shall have been approved by the 
 President. 
 
 III. The term " employees " as used herein shall include all per- 
 sons working for wages and excepts those employees who serve in 
 executive, administrative, supervisory, sales, and technical capacities. 
 
 IV. On and after the effective date the following conditions shall 
 govern employment in the Circular Rayon Knitting Industry : 
 
 (a) The maximum hours of labor for employees shall be forty 
 per week, subject to the flexible provision that the average hours 
 worked per week by any individual employee shall not exceed the 
 established maximum when figured over a period of four weeks. 
 
 (b) Inasmuch as this code now proposes in clause (a) next pre- 
 ceding, to establish a uniform practice of forty hours maximum 
 employment for employees, no employee after the effective date shall 
 receive for the forty-hour period of work less compensation than 
 was, or would have been received by said employee for forty-eight 
 hours of labor when paid at the rates prevailing as of May 1, 1933 ; 
 and on and after the effective date the minimum wage which shall 
 be paid to employees in the Circular Rayon Knitting Industry, with- 
 out respect to the method or basis of wage payment, shall be at the 
 rate of $13.00 per week for forty hours of labor — except apprentices 
 during a period limited to six weeks shall be paid at the rate of 85% 
 of the minimum wage specified herein. 
 
 V. No person under sixteen years of age shall be employed. 
 
 VI. As required by Section 7 (a) of Title 1 of the National Indus- 
 trial Recovery Act, the following provisions are conditions of the 
 code: 
 
 " 1. That employees shall have the right to organize and bargain 
 collectively thru representatives of their own choosing, and shall 
 
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 be free from the interference, restraint, or coercion of employers 
 of labor, or their agents, in the designation of such representatives 
 or in self-organization or in other concerted activities for the pur- 
 pose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection ; 
 
 " 2. That no employee and no one seeking employment shall be 
 required as a condition of employment to join any company union 
 or to refrain from joining, organizing, or assisting a labor organ- 
 ization of his own choosing; and 
 
 " 3. That employers shall comply with the maximum hours of 
 labor, minimum rates of pay, and other conditions of employment, 
 approved or prescribed by the President." 
 
 VII. This code imposes no restrictions on machine hours. 
 
 VIII. The companies signing applications attached to this code 
 hereby agree to furnish such information or returns as may be re- 
 quired by the Administrator of the National Industrial Recovery 
 Act to substantiate their compliance with the provisions contained 
 herein. 
 
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