Thle Code Authorit' is not com)osoc. oJ i-.nufi cturers s
 *:ithplants locL.tec, in :e": York Ct"-h clone. The present
 membership of the Code Authority is ten, and. the plants
 they re resent !:re as follo's:

 Bagcraft lifg. Inc. :Te7 York City
 Goldsmith 3ros. ;ifg. Co. Allcntown, Pa.
 Xedin Bror:. Hudson, 1'N. Y.
 Koret, Inc. N$er7 York City
 A. I. i.iLKid Co. 'e7- York City
 ..e'e rz If. Co. So. i.orwalk, Conn.
 iiirro Leather Goods Co. Chicago, Ill.
 Sol Lutterperi, Inc. 1eev7 Bedford, i.lass.
 Schoenfeld & Uiiolf, Inc. Trenton, N. J.
 Schocnhol7 S "eeks, Inc. Ne'.; York City

 Some of these manufacturers moved their plants to places
 outside of Ie'. York Cit.- recrj.iting their 'workers from the
 unemployedd in tieir loc.l communities. Some factories en-
 gaging O00 or more -.;orkers have SO ; of the total nen workers
 without previous e::erience, but in no case were they per-
 mitted to pay less than tne :aminimun td such beginners.

 The lid',est territory have one represent tive on the Code
 Authority out of L totpl of ten members and they produce
 about t.-n per cent of the bot, 1 production of the industry.

 "We have no ..:'-e diffe- eitiil to .ihich :e think -ve are justly en-
 titled, .nd whichh -,: s oroviacd for in the original draft of the
 h,:.ndbaj Code, but *7hich provision \.as left out, 7we found, 'rhen the
 handbag Code finJ.lly -as announced as being in'effect. As men-
 tioned, there is a lecrncrs1 provision in the Code, but the Ad-
 ministrator ihnris ne-,er seen fir to give us any relief under it.
 Tne net results to us under the Code have been that 7e are com-
 pelled to pay the s-ae mrain-mun age 'or ine--perienced help, 7ith-
 out even a short period. in .Lich to tech them to do our kind of
 '-ork, that the :.ew York mianuif:cturer is compelled to pay for ex-
 p.)erienced help. The han.-iicc-p to -is can be readily seen."

 The lEeeker Co. should consider that if the provisions in
 the Code relating to learners 'vas made effective for them,
 it :ould also apo)l.'- to ever r other member in the industry, ,
 m.ith the effect of equali'.'inr a vage less than the minimum
 throughout tno industry, whichh is the very opposite of what
 1-RA is .ttemotin,, to accormolish. The Code ha.s destroyed
 com-.ctition based solel; on the lowest labor costs, and as
 U result, it ha&- given lec,;iti:.mtc and honest manufacturers
 like the :;eeker Co. an o porti.nity to compete on style, ser-
 vice and :.ntaricals.





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