Amendment to code of fair competition for the funeral service industry as approved on July 25, 1934

No. 2


Registry No. 1749-04


AMENDMENTT TO
iE OF FAIR COMPETITION


FOR THE
iielt'RA...llt'L SERVICEtI .', -- ..' I NDUSTRY.
i"rNIERAL SERVICE INDUSTRY


AS APPROVED ON'JULY 25, 1934 "


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Approved Code No. 384--Amendment No. 2 / /

AMENDMENT TO CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION
FOB THE

FUNERAL SERVICE INDUSTRY

As Approved on July 25,1934


ORDER

MODIFICATION OF CODE OF FAIE COMPETITION FOR THE FUNERAL
SERVICE 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 16, 1933, for a modification of my
Order of approval, dated April 4, 1934, of the Code of Fair Compe-
tition for the Funeral Service Industry, and it having been shown
that said application should be granted and that said Order should
be modified:
NOW, THEREFORE, on behalf of the President of the United
States, I, Hugh S. Johnson, Administrator for Industrial Recovery,
pursuant to the authority vested in me by Executive Orders of the
President including Executive Order No. 6543-A, dated December 30,
1933, and otherwise; do hereby modify my Order of approval of the
Code of Fair Competition for the Funeral Service Industry, dated
April 4, 1934, in the following particular:
The last paragraph of said Order of approval, dated April 4,
1934, be and it hereby is modified to read as follows:
"Provided, however, that nothing contained in this section shall
supersede any state law which by its terms expressly authorizes
a member of this industry to organize, promote, participate in and
operate a form of enterprise prohibited herein."
HUGH S. JOHNSON,
Administrator for Industrial Recovery.
Approval recommended:
GEo. L. BERRY,
Division Administrator.
WASHINGTON, D.C.,
July 5, 1934.


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\ \ REPORT TO THE PRESIDENt.k

The PREksIDET, .. T .i.MW
The White House.
Sm: In the Order of Approval of the Code of Fair Competition
for the Funeral Service Industry, Section, 123. -t le VII was
amended by changing the period to a comm stt&r ieword "ser-
rice" in the ninth line thereof and adding the following:
Provided, however, that nothing contained in this Section shall
supersede any state law which by its terms permits any of the
practices described herein by members of the industry."
After the approval of the Funeral Service Industry Code the
original proponents of the Code as well as several members of the
Industry conferred with me and it develops that the wording'of'i is
last paragraph of my Order of Approval of this Code is not clear,
as to its intent.. .
Therefore in order to maintain the original intent of the last paay.
graph of the order of approval and to clarify its meaning, Ireco .-
mend the modification of this last paragraph by substituting bLie
following:
Provided, however, that nothing contained in this sectionwsalu
supersede any state law which by its terms expressly authorizes
member of this industry to organize, promote, participate in :,nd
operate a form of enterprise prohibited herein."
Respectfully,
HuGH S. JOHNSON,
Administr ,.at
JULY 25, 1934.
Approved Code No. 384-Amendment No. 2. .,.
Registry No. 1749-04.
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