Vol. II, No. 13' Issued Weekly by the National Recovery Administration, Washington March 29, 1935 Steps Taken to Silk Textile Industry National Industrial Recovery Adjust Productive Code Amendment Board is Reconstituted Capacityi~ Cotton Is Approved The National Industrial Recovery Board has approved an amendment to the Silk Tex­ Textile Industry tile Industry Oode incorporating in it the By Executive-Order standard non partnership, nonliability clause NIRB Acts on Recommendation of for the protection of members of the Code Donald R. Richberg is· Appointed Acting Chairman and Authority. Textile Plan.ning Committee The amendment adds a new section 6 to William P. Witherow and Philip Murray Are Named article VI which reads ns follows : Studying Problems of "Nothing contained in this Code shnll con­ As New Members of Administrative Group Mill Groups stitute the members of the Code Authority partners for any purpose. Nor shall any member of the Code Authority be liable in The National Industrial Recovery Board any manner to anyone fo r any ace of any The President signed the following Executive order reconstituting the on recommendation of its Textile Planning other member, officer, agent, Ol' employee of National Industrial Recovery Board on Mareh 21 : Committee bas taken steps to adjust avail­ the Code Authority. Nor shall any member " By virtue of the authority vested in me by the National Industrial Recovery able productive capacity in those groups of of the Code Authority, exercising reasonable the cotton textile industry where it may be diligence in the conduct of the duties here­ Act, approved June 16, 1933, and to effectuate the purposes of said act: I hereby necessary to meet the present inadequate under, be liable to anyone for any action or re,constitute the National Ind1:1strial Recovery Board created by Executive Order con umer demand. omission to act under this Code, except for No. 6859 as follows: The Textile Planning Committee of the hi~ own willful malfeasance or nonfeasance." Board was created when it bad become ap­ " 1. I hereby continue as members of said Board: A. D. Whiteside, Sidney parent that the textile industries of the coun­ Hillman, Leon U. Marshall, and Walton Hamilton. try faced an emergency threatening seriously "2. I hereby appoint William P. Witherow and Philip Murray as members to impede national recovery. The commit­ Used Car Trade-In of said Board. tee's members included Arthur D. Whiteside, "3. Upon the retirement of S. Clay Williams as a member and chairman of and Sidney Hillman, members of NIRB, and Leon Henderson, economic adviser to the the Board on March 22, 1935, I hereby appoint Donald R. Richberg to serve as Board, who· are particularly fitted by years Amendment Is a member and acting chairman of said National Industrial Recovery Board. of experience to deal with the industrial labor "4. Any previous orders concerning the subject matter hereof are hereby and economic problems of the textile indus­ Approved modified and amended so far as necessary to make this order fully effective." tries. Prentiss Coonley, fourth member of On taking office as chairman of the Na- tion that this will be approved by the Con­ the committee has been administrator of The National Industrial Recovery Board tiona! Industrial Recovery Board, Mr. Rich- gress, and that the extension of the act will the Textile Division, in constant touch with has announced approval of an amendment berg made the following statement: be authorized. , textile industries' problems since he joined to the Code of fair competition for- the mo­ "The NRA is moving into a new period "For this purpose the administration of NRA early in July, 1934. tor vehicle retailing trade relating to used of its development. Pending the enactment the act will be concentrated· in the admin­ The committee's task is, from a study of car allowances. of legislation it would be unwise to put into istrative officers and the Board itself will the industries' problems, to formulate ,a long­ A public hearing on the amendment was effect new major policies which should re- serve two major functions. First, to deter­ time program for all the textile industries, held March 7. At this time representatives ceive the sanction of the Congress. But it mine broad questions of administrative pol­ and, in the meantime, to recommend tempo­ of the National Control Committee, the gov­ is also necessary to make clear that the icy. Second, as a supervisory body to recom­ rary or emergency steps necessary in laying erning body of the industry; urged adoption fundamental policies of the NRA and its mend action, either by the President, or by the groundwork of a constructive program. of the amendment. They stnted that the activities, which have recei.ved overwhelming the acting chairman in behalf of the Board, The issuance of the order of March 26 is amendment, together with the improved public support, should be Yigorously adminis- in accordance with the authority retained by such an emergency step. · methods of collecting and compiling statis­ tered. There should be no question of the the President, or delegated by him under the It has been demonstrated to the Planning tics for the official guide would afford a whole-hearted determination of the adminis- law. Committee that there are branches of the sales value of used cars " equally fair to tration to carry forward the industrial re- "When the Congress has laid down the cotton textile industry which cannot continu•~ consumers of such used cars, to the con­ covery program upon the reasonable assump- standards and requirements to be effective to run in the immediate future on their pres­ sumer of new cars who uses the old car in after June 16, it will be possible very rapidly ent operating schedules. Some plants are lieu of money, and the dealer who accepts to put in effect a permanent organization, already being :forced to close down with com­ the used car instead of cash on the sale of conforming to the\ provisions of the new plete unemployment and hardship to the com­ a new·motor vehicle." law. munities dependent on them . .It is inevitable Approval of the amendment is conditional "I would point out that from the begin­ that there be some reduction for a time in on the proviso that it is to be effective only Code Approved ning of the NRA to the present time t!J:e operation and employment. The questions on offic ial guides compiled and published in problem of effective administration has been are : Shall this reduction be made in an or­ accordance with the pertinent provisions of one of great difficulty. It has been necessary derly and equal way, so as to spread the the amendment, and further, that all offi­ for Zinc Industry to build a new machinery and keep it opel'­ inadequate activity and employment reason­ cial guides effective on and after April 10, The National Industrial Recovery Board ating during a petiod of continual remodel­ ably equally over plants and communities de­ 1935, shall be compiled and published in con­ ing. It was like building a transportation pendent on them? Or, shall these reductions formity with the pertinent provisions of the bas approved a Code for the zinc industry. system in war time, with the necessity of take place in a haphazard, unequal, and ex­ amendment. It will become effective Monday, April 8. continual reconstruction, while at the same treme form, with prolonged uncertainty and The Code provides a basic maximum 40- time maintaining the trans.portation of pas­ instability and with degree of hardship hout· week averaged over 3-month periods, at sengers ant! supplies. wholly unnecessary? Drapery- tJ pholst.ery minimum wag~s varying between 30 and 47% " Such an operation could be subjected to The Board believes it preferable in this cents an hour. The order of approval, how­ many appa1;ently valid criticisms. Such a situation to spread such work and employ­ system could not possibly be made to work ment as is available as widely and equally Trimming Code Is ever, limits the averaging provisions' opera­ tion to 60 clays, at the end of which time the well according to peace-time standards of as possible among the va1ious communities efficiency. But to those who know what has in the industry. Accordingly it has created Extended averaging provisions "shall be automatically been done, who appreciate .the necessities, as machinery by which this can be done in the stayed and the Code amended * * * to1 well as the difficulties, it must be e\'ident divisions of the industry where it may prove · The National Industrial Recovery Board eliminate the said averaging provisions, or that the NRA is making a great contlibution necessary, by temperarily lowe1ing the pres­ bas extended the Drapery and Upholstery the said averaging provisions shall be super­ to the support of an industrial civUization. ent maximum of hours of operation or num­ Trimming Industry Code from its present ex­ seded by appropriate provisions submitted by "Every agency of human progress from ber of machines operated. piration date, March 31, 1935, to June 16, the Code Authority which shall conform to the wheelbarrow to the airPIIUle and from a 1935, or until such time as the Textile Trim­ Reductions, where necessary temporarily established Administration policy.'' tribal council to a' republican form of gov­ in the emergency situation, will be limited to mings .Code, which is planned to include the An 8-hour daily limitation is placed in the ernment ~as been opposed and scoffed at by not more than 25 percent in the maxin1um industry, is approved. the tired old men and the young-men-in-a­ hours of operation prescribed in the Colle The Code bad been extended on three pre­ maximum hours provisions of the Code, apd hurry of every generation.