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EXHIBIT 3800

N. A: M. MEMBERS
MEMBERS GROUPED

BY NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES

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NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES

1-24

25-49

58.7%

EMPLOYING UNDER

EXHIBIT 3801

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MANUFACTURERS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

11 WEST 42D STREET, NEW YORK; INVESTMENT BLDG., WASHINGTON, D. C EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS BULLETIN

NEW YORK CITY, August 25, 1933.

To Members, National Association of Manufacturers:

This bulletin includes: Text of N. R. A. Labor Statement: Donald Richberg's "Open Shop" Statement on August 18th; Industrial Consumers Protest N. R. A. Bituminous Coal Code; Federal Public Works Labor Employment Policy Would Give Monopoly to Unions; Can the Government Discriminate?; Open Shop Construction Policy of the Government in War Time; Declaration of N. A. M. Labor Principles.

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MANUFACTURERS.

TEXT OF N. R. A. LABOR STATEMENT

The text of the statement by General Hugh S. Johnson, Federal Administrator and Donald R. Richberg, general counsel for the National Recovery Administration, in the course of a radio address on the evening of August 23rd, wherein an endeavor is made to clarify the collective bargaining provisions of the Recovery Act, is as follows:

The plain meaning of Section 7 (a) cannot be changed by any interpretation by any one. It is the function of the administrator and the courts to apply and to interpret the law in its administration; and no one else can assume this function, and no official interpretation can be circumscribed, affected or foreclosed by any one writing his own interpretation into any code or agreement. Such an interpretation has no place there and cannot be permitted.

The words "open shop" and "closed shop” are not used in the law and cannot be written into the law.

These words have no agreed meaning and will be erased from the dictionary of the NRA.

The law requires in codes and agreements that "employes shall have the right to organize and bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing."

This can mean only one thing, which is that employes can choose any one they desire to represent them, or they can choose to represent themselves. Employers likewise can make collective bargains with organized employes, or individual agreements with those who choose to act individually; provided, of course, that no such collective or individual agreement is in violation of any State or Federal law. But neither employers nor employes are required, by law, to agree to any particular contract, whether proposed as an individual or collective agreement.

The law provides that employes shall be free from interference, restraint or coercion of employers in the [2] exercise of their rights established by the law. The conduct of employers which is here prohibited has been defined by the Supreme Court in the case entitled T. & N. Ó. R. R. vs. Brotherhood of Railway Clerks, 281 U. S. 548. The rulings of the Supreme Court lay down the law which governs the NRA.

Under Section 7 (A) employers are forbidden to require "as a condition of employment" that an employe shall either "join a company union" or "refrain from joining, organizing, or assisting a labor organization of his own choosing." The law does not prohibit the existence of a local labor organization, which may be called a company union and is composed only of the emploves of the company. But it does prohibit an employer from requiring, as a condition of employment, that any employe join a company union and it prohibits the maintenance of s company union, or any other labor organization, by the interference, restraint or coercion of an employer.

If there is any dispute in a particular case over who are the representatives of the employes of their own choosing, the NRA will offer its services to conduct an impartial investigation and, if necessary, a secret ballot to settle the question.

The NRA will not undertake in any instance to decide that a particular contract should be made, or should not be made between lawful representatives of emploves and employers: or to decide that a contract which has been lawfully made should not be enforced.

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