Registry No. 1408—9—02 NATIONAL RECOVERY ADMINISTRATION PROPOSED CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION FOR THE SHIPBREAKING INDUSTRY AS SUBMITTED ON AUGUST 31, 1933 WE DO OUR PART DC ,.;. g U.S. PEPO& TQRY The Code for the Shipbreaking 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 UNION SHIPBUILDING COMPANY AND BOSTON IRON & METAL COMPANY (ID CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION AND TRADE PRACTICE FOR THE SHIPBREAKING INDUSTRY IN THE UNITED STATES To effectuate the policy of Title 1 of the National Industrial Re- covery Act, the following provisions are established as a Code of Fair Competition for the Shipbreaking Industry. 1 — Definition or Terms The term " shopbreaker " when used in this Code, includes a person, partnership, or corporation engaged in the business of scrapping ships. 2 — General Regulations The shipbreakers will comply with the following provisions of the National Industrial Recovery Act: (a) That employees shall have the right to organize and bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing, and shall 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 purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection. (b) 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 organization ( -f his own choosing ; and (c) 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. 3 — Regulations of Hours of Work (a) No employee engaged in office administrative work may work in excess of forty (40) hours per week during any one week. These hours do not apply to employees in a managerial or executive capacity. (b) No employee engaged in yard production may work in excess of forty (40) hours per week during any one week. These hours do not apply to employees on emergency maintenance and repair work and to very special cases where restricted hours of highly skilled labor on continuous process would unavoidably reduce production, but in any such special cases at least time and one third (lVs) shall be paid for hours worked in excess of the maximum. 4 — Minimum Wage Rates (a) The minimum pay for office workers shall be $15.00 per week. (b) The minimum pay for unskilled labor shall be thirty (30) 9699— 33 ID cents per hour, and the minimum pay for semiskilled labor shall be forty (40) cents per hour. (c) The compensation for employment now in excess of the mini- mum wages hereby agreed to (notwithstanding that the hours worked in such employment may be hereby reduced) shall not be reduced, except in the case of watchmen. 5 — Prohibition of Child Labor On and after the effective date of this Code, employers shall not employ any minor under the age of sixteen (16) years. 6 — Unfair Methods of Competition To accomplish the purpose contemplated by this Act, the mem- bers signatory to this Code agree that the following practices are hereby declared to be unfair methods of competition. (a) To sell any product(s) or service (s) below the reasonable cost of such product (s) or service (s). (b) To give or accept rebates, refunds, allowance, unearned dis- counts for special services, directly or indirectly, in connection with any work performed. 7 — Administration (a) To effectuate further the policies of the Act, a Shipbreaking Industry Committee is hereby designated to cooperate with the Ad- ministrator as a Planning and Fair Practice agency for the ship- breaking: industry. This Committee shall consist of two representa- tives of the shipbreakers elected by a fair method of selection, to be approved by the Administrator, and one member without vote appointed by the President of the United States. Such agency may from time to time present to the Administrator recommendations based on conditions in their industry as they may develop from time to time which will tend to effectuate the operation of the provisions of this Code and the policy of the National Industrial Recovery Act. (b) Such agency is also set up to cooperate with the Adminis- trator in making investigations as to the functioning and observances of any provisions of this Code, at its own instance or on complaint by any person effected, and to report the same to the Administrator. (c) This Code and all the provisions thereof are expressly made subject to the right of the President, in accordance with the pro- vision of Clause 10 (b) of the National Industrial Recovery Act, from time to time to cancel or modify any order, approval, license, rule or regulation, issued under Title I of said act, and specifically to the right of the President to cancel or modify his approval of this Code or any conditions imposed by him upon his approval thereof. (d) Such of the provisions of this Code as are not required to be included therein by the National Industrial Recovery Act may, with the approval of the President, be modified or eliminated as changes in the circumstances or experience may indicate. It is contemplated that from time to time supplementary provisions to this Code or additional codes will be submitted for the approval of the President to prevent unfair competition in price and other unfair and de- structive competitive practices and to effectuate the other purposes and policies of Title I of the National Industrial Recovery Act consistent with the provisions thereof. (e) This Code shall become effective not later than ten (10) days after its approval by the President, and continue in force for a period of six (6) months from that date. E. J. Patterson, President, Union Shipbuilding Company. M. Shapiro, President, Boston Iron & Metal Company. o Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2011 with funding from University of Florida, George A. Smathers Libraries with support from LYRASIS and the Sloan Foundation http://www.archive.org/details/proposedcodeoffa7217unit UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA 3 1262 08584 7217