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stance of this was a long drrwn out controversy with one of the large
New York Department stores. Checking of metropolitan advertising indicated
that at the price offered goods could not be of the material described and
finally led. to withi-'a'',Pl. The administration member was quite familiar
with this andL co'rrobor.-.tive. evidence of this and other simrilc.r trans
actions ma: be found in the late Code Authority files now in the hands of
the succeeding organization.

 Statistical reports in Exhibit F and included in pages 6, 7, 8,
 9, 10, 11, 12 of this history are by no manner of means complete but they
 give a picture of the character of work done.

 6. Discussion of Operation of Code Authority as ai
 Indr.str_. Governing Body.

 In considering this subject one must constantly keep in mind two
factors thLUt for several months after the induction into office of this
Code Authority were ever in the foreground of industry'ls consciousness.

 First: A considerable proportion of production was in the hands
of factories located outside the city limits of New York, who were paying
wages much below New York unionized factories.

 Second: The Code Authority's own sharp division in membership, as
between ITe-'. York ald out of town, with the outlander element feeling
chagrined and wQrse over the division of representation mn.de by the
Administration

 Obviously,this situation !ide matters difficult, for each group
found it almost impossible to rise to their opportunity of self
government and weight dispassionately the problems given birth to in,
and by the Code.

 The feeling existing from these factors could not be treated light-
ly and had if -os biblee to be smoothed out. The problem cut several
ways. Out of town factories paying an average of considerably less than
ten dollars per week: found themselves raised to a code requirement of
fourteen dollars minimum, a raise upsetting their equilibrium and
assuming a size in their mental reckoning out of all proportion.

 The ITew York faction felt, naturally so perhaps, that the out of
owners would, find ways to beat the Code, not yet realizing the searching
quality of the police machine that was about to come into being. Ex-
pressed openly or not, the out of tovmn men sensed this suspicion and
did not take kindly t.,o it... After all their honesty of purpose was being
impugned before they had a chance to prove or disprove their good intent,
in other worC.s were condemned before being tried.

 The representative question then became of greater importance than
ever, for out of town without a majority, were certain in their minds,that
they could not hope for a fair break and did not hesitate so to say.

 Ergo: -Confusion- suspicion distrust openly arrived at- openly
expressed,


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