Executive Order 6871—Concerning Amendments to the Code of Fair Competition for the Cotton Garment Industry Approved by Executive Order No. 6828, August 21, 1934

Whereas Executive Order No. 6828, dated August 21, 1934, approved certain amendments to the Code of Fair Competition for the Cotton Garment Industry, including amendments to Articles III and IV thereof, which latter amendments by their terms were not to become effective until October 1, 1934, and

Whereas Executive Order No. 6861, dated September 28, 1934, stayed the effective date of said amendments to Articles III and IV of said Code of Fair Competition to and including October 15, 1934, and directed the National Industrial Recovery Board to appoint a committee of three impartial persons to hear protests, investigate the facts and report its recommendations concerning said amendments on or before October 10, 1934, and

Whereas the Cotton Garment Code Authority and various members of the Cotton Garment Industry, protestants against said amendments, had stated that if such an impartial committee were appointed to determine the issues involved, said protestants would abide by the conclusions of such committee, and

Whereas the National Industrial Recovery Board, pursuant to said Executive Order duly appointed Willard E. Hotchkiss, W. Jett Lauck and Donald M. Nelson, three impartial persons who had not theretofore formed an opinion concerning the subject matter of said amendments, as such committee, which said committee thereafter heard protests, investigated the facts and on October 10, 1934, did report its recommendations in the premises:

Now, Therefore, by virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me by Title I of the National Industrial Recovery Act of June 16, 1933 (ch. 90, 48 Stat. 195), and in order to effectuate the purposes of said title and of my said Executive Order No. 6861, dated September 28, 1934, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, President of the United States, do hereby approve and adopt the report and recommendations of said committee and do order:

1. That paragraph numbered 1 of Executive Order No. 6861, dated September 28, 1934, be and it is hereby revoked.

2. That the effective date of said amendments to Articles III and IV of said Code be stayed to and including December 1, 1934, after which date said amendments shall be in full force and effect.

3. That the committee heretofore appointed and constituted by the National Industrial Recovery Board, consisting of Willard E. Hotchkiss, Chairman, W. Jett Lauck, and Donald M. Nelson, be continued, with instructions further to investigate the protests of the Sheep Lined and Leather Garment Subdivision of the Cotton Garment Industry and report its findings and recommendations therein on or before November 15, 1934.

4. That the National Industrial Recovery Board forthwith appoint a committee of three impartial persons, which committee shall investigate the effects of competition between the products of prison labor and sheltered workshops on the one hand and of the cotton garment industry on the other, study the operation of the Prison Labor Compact especially as to the enforcement of the standards of competition with private industry established therein, and report to the National Industrial Recovery Board concerning said matters not later than December 1, 1934.

5. That on or before January 15, 1935, the National Industrial Recovery Board report to me as to exceptions to and exemptions from the Code of Fair Competition for the Cotton Garment Industry, as amended, which may have been granted under the provisions of Article XV of said Code as amended.

6. That this Order shall be subject to my further orders in the premises.

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

The White House,
October 12, 1934.