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 (g) Recommendations for dealing with any ineoa-lities that
 ay otherwise arise that may endanger the stability of the industry
 ad/or production and employment.

 (h) Such recommendations, when approved by the administrator,
shall have the same force and effect as any other provisions of this
!Code. Such agency shall likewise coooerate with the Administrator in
making any and all investigations as to the changing and observance
1of any of the provisions of this Code at its own instance or upon com-
plaint of any one of the members of the foregoing Committee. The said
'agency shall investigate the matter or matters complained of and re-
port its findings and recommendations to the Administrator for aopro-
priate disposition.

VIII CODE REPORTS AND FEES

 In:order that the President may be informed of the extent of
observance of the provisions of this Code, and of the extent to which
the declared policy of the National Industrial Recovery Act as stated
herein is being effectuated in the handbag industry, persons subject
to the jurisdiction of this Code shall at its request make periodically
to the Advisory Coincil such reports on wages, hours of labor, condi-
tions of employment, number of em-lovees, production, shipments, sales,
stocks, prices and other data pertinent to the purposes of this Code
as may be required; shall permit inspection of pertinent records by
author-zed agents, and shall pay as a code fee his proportionate share
of the amounts necessary to pay the cost of assembling, analysis and
publication of such reports and data, and of the maintenance of sp.id
Association and its authorized agents and activities in assisting the
National Recovery Administration in effectuating in the handbag indus-
try the pir-poses and requirements of the National Industrial Recovery
Act as stated herein.

 Except as otherwise provided in the National Industrial Recovery
Act, all statistical data filed in accordance with the provisions of
this Article shall be confidential.

IX Each employer must use, keep and maintain uniform cost sheets
as may be adopted by the Advisory Council.

 Every article sold by the employer must be figured on these
cost sheets, which shall be kept in a loose-leaf binder furnished
by the Association, and open to inspection in accordance with Article
VIII. Every employer shall swear that these cost sheets represent
every article manufactured by him, and that they are the true and only
cost sheets kept by him.'..

X It shall be considered an unfair method of competition to sell
products of the industry below cost excepting distress merchandise as
allowed under this code and provided for. The Advisory Council shall
formulate the method of determining cost and shall take into considera-
tion the following factors: cost of labor, materials and over-head.