UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA 3 1262 08483 0032 Registry No. 299—36 NATIONAL RECOVERY ADMINISTRATION PROPOSED CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION FOR THE WINDOW SHADE INDUSTRY AS SUBMITTED ON AUGUST 31, 1933 ¥n DO OUR PART ,..,07 U.S. DEPO?*TCRy The Code for the Window Shade 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 THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WINDOW SHADE MANUFACTURERS (ID A CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION COVERING THE WINDOW SHADE INDUSTRY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA SUBMITTED BY THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WIN- DOW SHADE MANUFACTURERS Article I This Code is submitted on behalf of the parties named in Ap- pendix A attached hereto and made a part hereof. Article II — Purpose To effectuate the policy of Congress as expressed in the National Industrial Recovery Act, the Window Shade Industry, as repre- sented by the National Association of Window Shade Manufacturers, adopt the following Code of Fair Competition. Article III — Definitions The term " Window Shade Industry " when used in this Code shall include a natural person, partnership, or corporation engaged in the business of manufacturing, assembling, installing, repairing, refinishing, and cleaning window shades or such other services as are usually performed by this industry. The Window Shade Industry, when referred to in this document, shall be called the " manufacturers." The National Association of Window Shade Manufacturers when referred to in this document shall be called the "Association." Article IV Any manufacturer may participate in the endeavors of the Asso- ciation relative to the revisions or additions to or the administration of this Code by accepting the proper pro rata share of the cost and responsibility of creating and administering it by becoming a mem- ber of this Association or by paying to it an amount equal to the dues, from time to time provided to be paid by a member, in like situation, of the Association. Article V — Regulations The manufacturers will comply with the following specific pro- visions of the National Industrial Recovery Act : 1. That the employees shall have the right to organize and bar- gain collectively through representatives of their own choosing. 9965—33 (1) 2. That no employee and no one seeking employment shall be lequired as a condition of employment to join any organization or to refrain from joining a labor organization of his own choosing. 3. That employers shall comply with the maximum hours of labor, minimum rates of pay, and other working conditions, approved or prescribed by the President. 4. The President may from time to time cancel or modify any order, approval, license, rule, or regulation issued under this title. 5. This code is not designed to promote monopolies and shall not be availed of for that purpose. 6. The provisions of this Code shall not be so interpreted or ad- ministered as to eliminate or oppress small enterprises or to dis- criminate against them. Article VI — Labor Maximum Hours. — No individual shall be employed in excess of forty (40) hours in any one week except as hereinafter specifically provided : (a) In emergency work in hospitals, institutions, schools, and public buildings ; (b) In places where hazardous machinery is in operation during the normal working hours of this industry ; (c) For seasonal business peaks as determined by the locality, an individual may be employed not in excess of forty-four (44) hours in any one week but over a four (4) month period the hours of labor must not average over forty (40) hours per week. Except that executives and those in a managerial position and their secretarial staffs, outside salesmen, firemen, and office em- ployees receiving more than Thirty-five Dollars ($35.00) weekly may be required to work more than forty (40) hours per week. Child Labor. — No minor under the age of sixteen (16) shall be employed in the industry provided, however, that where a state law provides a higher minimum age, no person below the age specified by such state law shall be employed within that state. No person under the age of eighteen (18) shall be employed in the industry in any work classed as hazardous. Employee ProprietorsMj}. — With the exception of one individual per member of the Industry, all members of any individual proprie- torship, association, or corporation, although connected with such member as co-owner, partner, stockholder, officer, or director, if en- gaged in any process of direct manufacture or installation, of the products of the Industry, shall be bound by the schedules of hours of work and of pay in this Code, regardless of such proprietary interests. Article VII — Wages It is hereby agreed that this industry will not reduce the compen- sation for employment now in excess of the minimum wages hereby agreed to (notwithstanding that the hours worked in such employ- ment may be hereby reduced) and to increase the pay for such em- ploj^ment by an equitable readjustment of all pay schedules. The minimum rate of pay for — South : Per hour Shade Hangers 500 Shade Cutters 50t All others 32y20 North : Per hour Shade Hangers 500 Shade Cutters 500 All others 37V.0 Where an employee performs both factory and outside labor at varying rates he shall be paid the higher rate. The hours and wages provisions of this Code shall also govern allied lines when carried as a regular part of the manufacturer's business until specifically covered by any separate Code for such allied lines. Article VIII — Items of Unfair Competition It shall be unfair competition for members of this Industry to : a. Brand or label or advertise goods or advertise his business in any way that is false or misleading. b. Misappropriate or attempt to disappropriate the business of competitors through misrepresentation of such competitors' merchan- dise or actions or by any other methods not generally approved as good business practice. c. Resort to any form of commercial bribery. d. Fail to state in all contracts a definite statement of price, quan- tity, and grade, terms of payment, time, rate, and place of delivery, and all other elements for a complete contract. e. To sell below a reasonable cost arrived at by a system established by the Cost Finding Committee of the Code Authority subject to the approval of the Administrator. f. Establish a cash discount in excess of 2%. g. Give or accept rebates, refunds, allowances, unearned discounts, or special services directly or indirectly with any work performed, or resort to any subterfuge whatsoever to frustrate the spirit or plan of this Code. h. Induce employees of competitors to violate contracts or entice away employees of competitors is condemned. i. Sell a window shade or a roller as a substandard or a second without clearly and conspicuously marking the shade as such on the bottom hem. j. Sell as a linen shade, a window shade not actually made of linen fabric. Stock Shades. — It shall be a violation of this Code to manufacture or sell stock shades in any other width than those already estab- lished by prevailing list as of July 10, 1933. All other sizes not in- cluded in the stock sizes above mentioned and all side hemmed shades shall be classed as special order shades. Direct Selling. — The practice of the manufacturer and suppliers of window shade materials used in the fabrication of window shades, selling same to the consumer shall be considered an unfair method of competition. Misleading Guarantees. — ^Where prices are quoted in advertising shades, size, quality, and grade of shade as determined by the in- dustry must be plainly stated. It being a fact that cotton is generally understood to be the basic material used in window shades, the sale of paper shades under trade names not indicating their origin is misleading and an unfair trade practice. Article IX — Substandard Manufacturers The industry recognizes as a continuing and growing evil the existence of the " substandard " or more popularly known as the fly- by-night or sweatshop dealer. This type of dealer of window shades employs little or no labor, but personally solicits his business and his wife or family manu- facture the product. He maintains no place of business or office, doing his manufacturing in his home, and for that reason it is im- possible to properly supervise, ascertain hours of labor, wages paid, or the cost data or sanitary conditions of manufacturing. Six months after the effective date of this Code such substandard, sweatshop, and fly-by-night dealer shall be prohibited from having work done or labor performed on window shades in the living quar- ters of such manufacturer. Article X — Enforcement 1. The Administration and enforcement of this Code shall vest in the Administrator and the Code Authority, the Code Authority to be established, in a reasonable manner, from the members of the industry. The method of selection of the Code Authority is sub- ject to the approval of the Administrator. 2. The Association respectfully submits that its membership unani- mously advocates a method of administration whereby the powers of enforcement for each particular locality or region shall lodge in a local or regional affiliate of a national organization, and that the local or regional affiliate consists of members of the Industry' operat- ing in that particular locality or region. Article XI — Cancellation or Modification This Code is subject to modification or enlargement as experience with its operation develops the necessity therefor. Article XII — Effective Date This Code shall become effective ten days after its approval and acceptance by the President. Respectfully submitted. National Association Window Shade Manufacturers Code Committee. Wm. H. Burg. Carroll E. Fellissier. L. Sackamp. Dated at Washington this 1st day of Sept. 1933. APPENDIX A This code is filed in behalf of the following-named parties : Tlie National Ass'n of Window Shade Mfrs., 10607 St. Clair Ave., Cleveland, Ohio; Retail Window Shade Ass'n of Grand Rapids, Mich., 120 Division St., Grand Rapids, Mich. ; New England Shade & Screen Mfrs. Ass'n, 53 Trapelo Rd., Waltham, Mass.; Chicago Associated Retail Window Shade Dealers, 4915 Cottage Grove Ave., Chicago, 111. ; Washington State Window Shade Dealers. 2002 Market St., Seattle, Wash. ; Twin City Window Shade Association, 518 W. Lake St., Minne- apolis, Minn. ; Detroit Window Sh;ide Mfrs. Association, Architects Bldg., De- troit, Mich. ; Cincinnati Ass'n of Window Shade Mfrs., 1230 Vine St.. Cincin- nati, Ohio ; Cleveland Association of Window Shade Mfrs., 6705 Detroit Ave., Cleveland, Ohio ; San Francisco Window Shade Dealers Association, 1905 Full- more St., San Fi'ancisco, Calif. ; Dallas Association of Window Shade Mfrs., 1917 N. Harwood St., Dallas, Tex. ; Toledo Association of Window Shade Dealers, 217 Fifteenth St., Toledo, Ohio ; St. Louis Association of Window Shade Mfrs., 2616 Shenandoah Ave., St. Louis, Mo. ; Indianapolis Association of Window Shade Mfrs. & Cleaners, 132 No. Delaware St., Indianapolis, Ind. ; Retail Window Shade Association of Portland Oregon, 727 Sandy Blvd., Port- land, Oreg. ; Milwaukee Window Shade Mfrs. Ass'n, 1211 No. 4th St., Mil- waukee, Wis. ; Southern Window Shade Ass'n, Richmond Chamber of Com- merce, Trade Ass'n Bureau, Richmond, Va. ; Window Shade Manufacturei'S Association of Brooklyn, N.Y., 318 Kings Highway, Brooklyn, N.Y. ; Associated Window Shade Manufacturers of New Jersey, 178 Main Street, Orange, N.J. ; Long Island Window Shade Manufacturers Association, 131-19 Jamaica Ave., Richmond Heights, Long Island, N.Y. ; New York Window Shade Manufac- turers Association, 270 Broadway, New York, N.Y. (5) O