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 .-Le obj-ct of this Association shall be to secure
 r.nC provide cooperative arnd united effort in all matters
 relating to the -orowresc, development, -'elfare or im-
 provement of conditions in the Hcndba.; Industiy and in-
 dust'-ies correlated. nd contribibuting to and affecting. the
 welfare and 1o'o-'mss of the iandba Industry in all its
 branches, to foster thec trade anC commercial interests
 of its members; to secure freedom from unjust and unlav-
 fful exactions; to inculcate and maintain just and eouit-
 able princioles; to eliminate unfair or imp-roper practices;
 to establish and maintain uniformity and eouitr in the
 customs and commercial usnae. :; in' the InC idistry; to acouire,
 -preserve, collect, and disseminate business information
 deemed "ise'ul, advan.rita.;eous or vcaluoble to its members
 reg-'rding the handba' Industry; to reform, correct and
 prevent arn- abuse and adjust commercial controversies,
 misunde-.strndin,-s or grievances between -umbers or be-
 twreen its members and the trade; to enforce its said ob-
 jects and purposes among its members ", such disciplin-
 ary and other measures as rna'r be reed upon by them and
 as nay be provided by its by-la'7s; and in general to do
 all matters tending to the improvement of the 'T.,ndbe"
 Industry in all its commercial aspects."
 (See o*-aOraoh 3, -oage 1, letter of transmittal E-diibit
 A, part 1.)
 %
 This organization came into beir.r before the Code era. (see ppe 19,
this histor-.).

 .hils there is no C.ocume-ntary evidence of -Ihat transpired at the
various meetin.-i. and conferences, members of industry preferring, I am
told., not to have written records of their maw- bitter fights, the T'riter
is full-" a-"e.re of the conditions that existed lon,1 prior to the enactment
of the iT.I.R.A. anC. of -hose that obtained during the ensuing months.

 The arguments oresenteC ,-ere b&seC upon the labor situation obtain-
ing in 1933, a situation caused by the migration of industry from its
first an principal home base iVev Yor'k Cit-, and other contributing fac-
tors uoon 'Vhich I will touch later. (Page 16, this history)

 The shifting of industry from the hietro-oolitan City started about
1928 "nd 1929 nsid .ps caused, it is claimed and I believe cannot be dis-
*:'ut2, by- the *he.vyI handed. tactics of the labor leader'hin then in -oo'-er.

 As more and. more manufacturers located their plants in cities anC,
towns outside the Mietropolitan area, taking avnte of the cheao labor
taere to be found, naturallyr those remninin,- in 1'e-', York and under Union
agreements founr.d competition, which .iac laroely based uoon labor costs,
almost un-neetable. It was not ioT7e-;sr until -7 'ere 7rell into the de-
pression yeal.?, '7ith a consistent loveri;:...: of price floors that real bit-
terness camne into e:-istence.

 The N.I.R.A. ]L.in- been v:ritten and mvan-r, nen- row. York City manu-
facturers believed the-r ss3 an opportunity to even up conditions if they
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