Executive Order 6330—Code of Fair Competition for the Silk Textile Industry

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 16th, 1933, for my approval of a Code of Fair Competition for the Silk Textile 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 (2) 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 the said Code of Fair Competition be and it is hereby approved, it being distinctly understood that the minimum wage fixed in Article IV applies only to the lowest paid class of labor in the Industry and is a minimum wage for that class only, and that weavers, warpers, loom fixers and other skilled and semi-skilled workers shall be paid upon a higher wage scale which maintains the dollar differentials above the lowest paid class as they existed on July 1, 1933, in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 3 of Article IV.

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

Approval recommended:
     Hugh S. Johnson.
          Administrator.

The White House,
October 10, 1933.