63. No apprentice shall leave one office and enter the service of another employer without the written consent of the President or Secretary of the League and the President of his Union. Any apprentice who is found guilty of obtaining membership as a journeyman through misrepresentation as to the time of his apprenticeship shall forfeit his membership. In case of violation of this rule he shall not receive a journeyman's card. until he has fulfilled his apprenticeship at the option of the employer in the office in which he was registered. In case the employer does not wish to take him back, he must fulfill the term of his apprenticeship in some recognized union office before receiving his journeyman's card.

64. Whenever an apprentice has served the required length of time in any department the employer shall have the right to advance him to be a journeyman in that grade, provided he pays him the full scale for that position, and should the apprentice hold this position to the satisfaction of the employer for a period of ninety days, it shall be deemed sufficient evidence of his competency, and his application shall thereupon be accepted by the Union which has jurisdiction. During this ninety days' probationary period no new apprentice shall be taken on to fill the place of the one so advanced.

65. When an apprentice is out of employment, through failure or retirement from business of his employer, or other causes beyond the control of the employer or the apprentice, such apprentice shall have an opportunity for completing his term in any office, regardless of the number of apprentices employed therein; provided that no more than one such extra apprentice shall be allowed in any shop, nor shall any journeyman be displaced.

66. A Joint Apprentice Committee composed of five (5) representatives from the League and five (5) representatives from the Union, shall be formed to study, investigate and report, and during the life of this agreement, act to secure enforcement of the conditions outlined in this agreement covering apprentices. The Committee shall have full power and authority any time during the term of apprenticeship, to cancel the apprenticeship of an apprentice who does not show aptitude and proper qualifications for the work. The Committee shall meet jointly at the call of the Chairman of each Committee, at such time and place as may be determined by them.

67. The minimum scale of wages to be paid apprentices shall bear the following proportions to the full scale of the shift on which they are employed:

COMMERCIAL FIXTURES

NATIONAL COMMERCIAL FIXTURE MANU-
FACTURERS' ASSOCIATION

Adopted Feb. 1, 1916:

CODE OF ETHICS

The members of the National Commercial Fixture Manufacturers' Association, consisting of manufacturers of store furniture, bank fixtures, and similar lines, believing-that it is for the best interest of any individual or firm engaged in the manufacture and sale of the above mentioned products, as well as for the industry as a whole, that clean, honorable and legitimate business customs should prevail in this business, and that they should be followed in buying, in selling and in competition with others engaged in the business-present in the following articles a statement of business policy which they believe should be followed by all parties engaged in this industry and which they consider representative of a square deal, which is the motto of their organization:

Article No. 1: That as the successful conduct of any business depends on the marketing of the product at a price which will net a reasonable profit to the manufacturer, that none of the products of this industry should be sold, knowingly, below a price which would return to the manufacturer the cost of production. plus a fair percentage of profit.

Article No. 2: That as a knowledge of the cost of production is absolutely necessary to the successful conduct of any business, manufacturers in this line should exert every effort to inform themselves on this subject and should aid their fellow manufacturers in securing a knowledge of this subject by any means in their power.

Article No. 3: That every manufacturer should have an accurate system of ascertaining the cost of every job, that the information derived from this system should be recorded so that it could be referred to and that these records should always be used in estimating special work so that every advantage of past experience might be taken and estimate made on actual facts rather than guess work.

Article No. 4:

That in estimating special work the aim of the Estimator should always be to arrive at the cost of pro

duction to which the profit should be added as a separate and distinct item, thus permitting comparisons between estimates and the actual cost figures obtained after work is completed.

Article No. 5: That there should be no misrepresenta

tion of goods made to prospective purchasers.

Article No. 6: That no misrepresentation pertaining to business policy should be made to competitors.

Article No. 7: That the purchasers of the product of our factories should be impressed with the fact that the manufacturers in this line of business are trustworthy and honest and can be trusted to carry out any agreement and that they can safely place work with them without competitive bidding and be assured of first class workmanship, fair treatment and a reasonable price.

Article No. 8: That in selling, no graft should be tolerated and that no commission ever be offered or paid the parties in the employ of prospective purchasers.

Article No. 9: That as "knocking" is a practice unworthy of the business, no salesman should speak disparagingly of another salesman or competing firm.

Article No. 10: That salesmen should not solicit the cancellation of nor manufacturers accept orders placed with competitors, but should consider an order placed with a competitor as a closed incident.

Article No. 11: That no quotations should be made by salesmen or otherwise on work which is already contracted for or completed by other manufacturers, nor should any criticism be offered of the work of other manufacturers or the prices made. on the same.

Article No. 12: That as following the general policy of price maintenance is for the best interest of any manufacturer, no salesman should change prices once quoted unless changes in the quantity of, or the specifications for, the work in question has been made.

Article No. 13: That when a manufacturer is offered work which he can not do, he should make it a point to refer the customer to another Association member.

Article No. 14: That giving itemized prices on various small portions or separate articles of a complete equipment should. be avoided as far as possible.

Article No. 15: That it should be a duty and a pleasure to impart to less experienced competitors any knowledge which

may be of help to them as long as you have reason to believe that the information will be fairly used. This practice will tend to do away with ignorance and thus tend to eliminate a dangerous factor in competition.

Article No. 16: That it is for the best interest of any manufacturer to refer inquiries for work which is to be built to match that of a competitor to the original manufacturer rather than to attempt to build it themselves, and that it is well before building such work to ascertain the relations existing between the purchaser and the manufacturer who built the original work.

Article No. 17: That any firm who authorizes any individual to solicit business and sell goods for them should see to it that the salesman is fully instructed as to the policy they propose to pursue on all matters referred to in this Code.

Article No. 18: That all members of the Association should aim to adhere to the terms and conditions of sale and the use of such contracts for sale as have been approved and recommended for use by the Association.

Article No. 19: That good feeling among the manufacturers engaged in this industry is for the best interest of all concerned and that therefore no manufacturer should judge the action or course taken by another manufacturer without full knowledge of all conditions in relation to the matter in question.

Article No. 20: That it is for the best interest of any manufacturer in this business to make both his general and cost accounting, uniform in plan with that in general use in this industry.