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1IATI01IAL a-ECOV:RY AD:.:;IiISTATION

 Il'TERPRZTATION

 No. 332-10


Name of Code:


Ladies Hand Bag Industry, Approved Code 11o. 332


Part: Article V, Section 10


A'plicant:


Facts:


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IiITE~IPRETAT 1011:


Code Authority of the Ladies Hand Bag Industry,
303 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York

It is provided in Article V, Section 10, of
the Code of Fair Competition for the Ladies
Hand Bag Industry, in part, that

 "No member of the Industry shall give out
 work to be performed in any home or dwell-
 ing place, except that this prohibition
 shall not apply to hand-beading, hand-
 crocheting, or hand-erabroidery. . "

and. it appearss that certain ty-. ;s of hand
bags are manufacturered from numerous pieces
of leather, linked together, by a process of
interlocking by hand and that said process is
sometimes known as "hand-crocheting".

Is the manufacture of ladies hand bags from
numerous pieces of leather linked together
by a process of inter-locking by hand included
under the term "hand-crocheting" as used in
said provision of said Code?

It is ruled that the manufacture of ladies
hand. bags from numerous pieces of leather
lin2:ed together by a process of interlocking
by hand shall not be included under the term
"hand-crocheting", as used in said provision
of said Code.


I ECOMIDED:


 I ABL DEA1I HOW7AIID (Signed)
 ari Dean Howard
 I Deputy Administrator



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APP2CVED:


SOL A. ROSZMrLATT (Si-ned)
Sol A. ?osenblatt
Division Administrator
Division No. 5.


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