Executive Order 6790—Code of Fair Competition for the Auction and Loose-Leaf Tobacco Warehouse Industry

Whereas, the Secretary of Agriculture and the Administrator for Industrial Recovery having rendered their separate reports and recommendations and findings on the provisions of said Code, coming within their respective jurisdictions, as set forth in Executive Order No. 6182 of June 26, 1933, as supplemented by Executive Order No. 6207 of July 21, 1933 and Executive Order No. 6345 of October 20, 1933, as amended by Executive Order No. 6551 of January 8, 1934;

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 hereby find:

1. An application has 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 Auction and Loose-leaf Tobacco Warehouse Industry; and,

2. Due notice and opportunity for hearing to interested parties has been given pursuant to the provisions of the Act and regulations thereunder; and

3. Hearings have been held on said Code, pursuant to such notice and pursuant to the pertinent provisions of the Act and regulations thereunder; and

4. Said Code of Fair Competition constitutes a Code of Fair Competition, as contemplated by the Act and complies in all respects with the pertinent provisions of the Act, including clauses (1) and (2) of subsection (a) of Section 3 of Title I of the Act; and

5. It appears, after due consideration, that said Code of Fair Competition will tend to effectuate the policy of Congress as declared in Section 1 of Title I of the Act.

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 hereby approve said Code of Fair Competition for the Auction and Loose-leaf Tobacco Warehouse Industry; provided, however, that the provisions of Section 24 of Article VII shall not become effective, and they are hereby stayed for a period of twenty days in order to afford consideration to the objections of any interested parties, and that at the expiration of such period the provisions of such section shall become effective, unless I shall otherwise order.

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

Approval recommended:
     H A Wallace
          Secretary of Agriculture.
     Hugh S. Johnson.
          Administrator

The White House,
June 30, 1934.