The film daily year book of motion pictures (1934)

standing or personal integrity or his ability to serve the trade. (g) Predating contracts or willfully misrepresenting the date of a contract. (It) Misrepresentation as to work or service or quality oi work or service or materials, or mis leading advertising. (i) The giving of any hrihe, gift, favor, or service to any employee of a customer or competitor in order to obtain information about a competitor's condition of business. (j) The accepting of any rebate, direct or indirect, from an employee. (k) Influencing any employee to dispose of his wages in any manner whatsoever. (1) To store producers' old film without making a reasonable charge therefor. (m) To furnish the use of cutting rooms without making a reasonable charge therefor. (n) To render commercial projection service without making a reasonable charge therefor. (o) To take an unauthorized duplicating print from a customer's negative or to make any other unauthorized copies, either negative or positive of a customer's negative or print. Article VI — Modification 1. By the President. — This Code recognizes the right of the President from time to time to cancel or modify any order, approval, license, rule or regulation issued under Title I of the N.I.R.A., 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. 2. By the Association. — The provisions of this Code, other than the mandatory provisions under the N.I.R.A., may be modified or amended by the concurring vote of at least two-thirds of the members of the Association at a meeting called for such purpose, provided that notice of lubraission of the proposed modification, or amendment, has been given in the notice of meeting and pro vided further, that any modification or amendment adopted by the Association shall not become binding or effective unless and until approved by tinPresident. Article VII — General 1. Producers' Laboratories 'Excepted* — Any laboratory owned, operated, or controlled by a motionpicture producing firm, whether an individual, a partnership, a corporation, or otherwise, without limitation, is excepted from the operation of this Code, so long as it does not compete with any laboratory subject to this Code in laboratory products, or services, other than on pictures produced by it. 2. Membership — (a) All members of the Association affected thereby shall, as a condition of membership, subscribe to this Code. (b) Association membership shall remain open at all times to any motion picture laboratory under no restrictions, except as to initiation fee and payment of dues. 3. Application of the Code. — If any employer in the Motion Picture Laboratory Industry is also an employer of labor in any other industry, the provisions of this Code shall apply to and affect only that part of the business of such employer which is included in the laboratory industry. 4. Effective Date. — This Code becomes effective on the tenth day following its approval by the President. 5. Termination. — This Code, unless otherwise terminated, shall expire on the same date as the N.I.R.A. 6. Code Violation. — Violation of any provision of this Code shall be deemed unfair competition. CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION FOR THE LEGITIMATE FULL LENGTH DRAMATIC AND MUSICAL THEATRICAL INDUSTRY AS APPROVED AUGUST 16, 1933 BY PRESIDENT FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT EXECUTIVE ORDER An application having been duly made, pursuant to and in full compliance with the provisions of Title I, of the National Industrial Recovery Act, approved June 16, 1933, for my approval of a Code of Fair Competition for the Legitimate Full Length Musical Theatrical Industry, and hearings having been held thereon and the Administrator having rendered his report containing an analysis of the said Code of Fair Competition together with his recommendations and findings with respect thereto, and the Administrator having found that the said Code of Fair Competition complies in all respects with the pertinent provisions of Title I of said Act and that the requirements of clauses (1) and (a) of subsection (a) of Section 3 of the said Act have been met: NOW, THEREFORE, I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States, pursuant to the authority vested in me by Title I of the National Industrial Recovery Act, approved June 16, 1933, and otherwise, do adopt and approve the report, recommendations, and findings of the Administrator, and do order that said Code of Fair Competition be, and it is hereby, approved. Hugh S. Johnson, Administrator. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT. The White House, August 16, 1933. — # — August 14, 1933. To The President : INTRODUCTIOX This is a report of the Hearing on the Code of Fair Competition for the Legitimate Full Length Dramatic and Musical Theatrical Industry in the United States, conducted in the Caucus Room of the Old House Office Building, in Washington, D. C. on August 10, 1933, in accordance with the provisions of the National Industrial Recovery Act. The following papers are included and annexed : 1. Code submitted. 2. Notice of hearing. 3. Statement of procedure. 4. Transcript of record. 5. Report of the deputy. 617