Secure, py Inequauloil, Inoullicaulous 01 exisuling coliuracus reliuel eu burdensome by costs increased by this code. SEC. 8. Mandatory statutory recitation of the Rights of Labor. SEC. 9. Mandatory statutory recitation of the President’s right to cancel, modify, or amend. SEC. 10. Provides for consideration by the President of future amendments at the instance of the industry. This code was formulated during the Congressional debate on the Recovery Act by conference among representatives of the industry, with unofficial assistance of the present Administrator's aides. It was submited the day the President signed the Act. After due legal º notice the hearing opened on June 27th and concluded uly 1st. The hearing was presided over by the Administrator and conducted by Deputy Administrator William H. Allen with the aid of members of the staff of the National Recovery Administration in the presence of the Industrial Advisory Board, appointed by the Secretary of Commerce, the Labor Advisory Board, appointed by the Secretary of Labor, and the Consumers' Advisory Board, appointed by the Administrator. Representatives of the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission were also in attendance. The hear ing was attended by considerable numbers (about 500) of the public and a full press complement. The code was presented by duly qualified representatives of the industry after due qualifications of its proponents complying with all statutory requirements as representing 75% of the capacity of the industry. In accordance with announced procedure, every person who had filed an appearance, whether as a worker, employer, or con sumer, was freely heard in public, including a representative of a Communist organization. All statutory and regulatory requirements were complied with.

III. SUMMARY OF AND CONCLUSIONs on THE Evide NCE

1. Hours of Labor. (Proposed Reduction of Weekly Hours to 40.)

President McMahon, of the United Textile Workers of America, affiliated with the American Federation of Labor (who had partici pated in the formulation of the code and had concurred in it before submission) submitted at the hearing amendments to his original statement and to the code and urged that the hours of work be limited to 35 instead of the proposed 40, in order to bring about a reabsorp tion of the unemployed of the industry (II-H 3 ff.; I-7-11; J-1 #. President Green of the American Federation of Labor went further and asked for a 30-hour week on the ground that “the work available at the May level in industry generally would provide only 25.6 hours per week for all who needed work,” and that it was, therefore, best to arrange a single standard, presumably regardless of differences between industries as to rates of activity and employment (State ment, p. 6: Record III-S-9, III-S-11). Both testified to the preva lence in the past year of as high as a 53-to-54-hour week for the indus