C. PUBLIC KEARI:GS ON CODE

 1# Dates: major personnel: results

 The only public hearing held took place on
 December 8th, 1933 at the Carlton Hotel, Washington, D. C.
 It was n-resided over by Dr. Earl Dean Howard, Deputy Admin-
 istrator, who had as advisors:-

 Mr. Max Berkowitz, Industrial Advisory Board
 Hiss Rose Schneiderman & W. E. Bryann, Labor
 Advisory Board
 11r. Fred Huhlein, Consumers Advisory Board
 Mr. J. P. Davis, Division of Research and Planning
 Mr. G. H. Barrenboim, Legal Division,

 and the principal witnesses heard were:-

 Vr. A. -Mittenthal, Associated Handbag Industries
 of America
 Mr. I. Schoenholz, Industrial Council of Leather
 Goods ManiLfacturers '
 Mr. E. M. Luce, Secretary, Midwestern Handbag
 and Small Leather Wares Association
 Mr. Isadore E. Schlesinger of Schl-esinger and
 Krinsky, 270 Broadway, New York, Counsel for
 and representing National Association of
 Imitation and Leather Novelties.
 Mr. C. A. Newton, representing Meeker & Co.,
 Joplin, Mo.
 Mr. Irving C. Fox and Yr. Samuel W. Reyburn
 representing the National Retail Dry Goods
 Association
 Mr. Lewis2Waldman, Counsel for and representing the
 International Pocketbook Workers Union
 Affiliated with A. F. of L.
 Mr. Maurice 1,agid, Associated Handbag Industries of
 America
 Mr. M. R. Bienen, Industrial Council of Leather
 Goods Manufacturers.

 Mr, Mittenthal of Associated Handbag Industries of America,
 the first witness heard stated that his association together with
 the two affiliated organizations, Industrial Council and Mid-
 western represented about 75% of the entire industry.

 This figure was disputed however by Mr. Schlesinger, ap-
 pearing for National Association of Imitation and Leather
 Novelties, basing his figures on the Census report of 1931. Later
 he incorporated in the record a brief covering this. (Pages 238 to
 263 transcript Public Hearing December 8, 1933).