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1. No misleading advertising (Taken from Retail Code), and also The making of, causing or permitting to be made, any false or deceptive statements, either written or oral, of or concerning the business policy of a competitor, his product, selling price, or financial, business or personal standing, is a violation of this code.

Both held to be part of present Retail Code, and accepted.

2. Work by living artists on consignment not to be sold to net the artist less than the price fixed by him without his consent.

Approved.

3. Prevention of sale by dealers, foreign and/or itinerant, who do not pay income tax.

We described the practice of itinerant foreign dealers and we also showed a foreign print catalogue as indicative of the selling methods of foreign dealers without American overhead to undersell American dealers.

Mr. Hall feels that this point may be covered by Article 67 of the N. I. R. A., Section 3, Title 1, Paragraph E, which has to do with importations which are in competition with items sold by American firms. He will look this up further.

We handed him a copy of suggested recommendations prepared by our Committee as to the mechanics to check importations by foreign dealers and importations of prints mailed by foreign dealers on consignment and approval. The first of these had to do with the adoption of the Canadian practice of a bond posted at the time of importation, and the second involved a Customs House check on the ultimate destination of packages of prints received by mail. Mr. Hall will give both of these recommendations his careful attention.

4. Works of art sold shall be specifically and accurately described as to authenticity and attribution.

The administrator holds that this should be elaborated, - perhaps to say that an accurate bill of sale, in which the work of art shall be specifically and accurately described, should be furnished. He suggests that we might find helpful as to specific descriptions the article in the Jewelers' Code having to do with the description of stones.

5. No limit on business hours except for shop workers. (44 hours a week suggested as acceptable).

On this, as mentioned above, the Board wants a quantitative, statistical picture, the details of which will be furnished by us when the Labor Board tells us specifically what it wants to know in this regard.

6. Prevention of criticism or condemnation of pictures offered by competitors in order to make sales.

Mr. Hall agrees that this may be included in the code in the hope that its presence therein may have a good effect, but that its detection or legal prevention could hardly be looked for.