STOVES NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STOVE MANUFACTURERS Adopted May 1923: CODE OF ETHICS This Association is established to secure by lawful methods harmonious action in all matters pertaining to the best interest and welfare of the Stove Industry. To promote this end the members jointly agree to observe the following Code of Ethics. 1. Avoid indirect or underhand selling methods intended to influence improperly your customer or his salesmen. 2. Make no false or derogatory statements concerning a competitor, his business or his goods. 3. Make no overstatement or misrepresentation in your own interest. Never accept an order larger than can reasonably be delivered within the terms of agreement. 5. Discourage discrimination in prices between different purchasers or different localities based upon other than legitimate differences in costs. 6. Do not try to persuade a customer to break a contract with a competitor. 7. Adopt no trade-marks or trade names so similar to those in use as to be misleading. 8. Good service and prompt delivery will assure permanent business relations. 9. Let the Golden Rule always be your guide. 10. Provide your salesmen and dealers with this code and induce them to conform with it. TAILORING NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MERCHANT Adopted January 1924: CODE OF ETHICS 1. I believe the Merchant Tailoring Business should be founded upon Ethical Principles. 2. The belief that my business has an elevating and refining influence on Society will act as an inspiration in the discharge of my duties as a Craftsman and Citizen. 3. It will be my aim to render a distinct service to my fellowman and to improve myself as a Merchant, attesting to the fundamental principle of honesty as the only sure road to success. 4. It is not only a duty but an honor to be of service to my Association. I recognize that any unjust or unethical act done by a Merchant Tailor injures directly the entire industry. 5. The genius of association being perfect co-operation; helpful information, constructive ideas and means of improving our industry should be freely interchanged between Members. 6. I will hold it unethical to directly or indirectly hire an employee away from a competitor. This is not to be construed as to inhibit negotiations with anyone who of his own initiative, or in response to a public advertisement, shall apply for employment. 7. As an Employer, I will study and analyze all matters affecting my employees, and after gaining thorough information and exact knowledge, will deal equitably and justly to make them efficient and contented, believing our interests to be mutual. I will not take from a creditor that not rightfully my due nor exact from a customer more than an equivalent for service rendered, based upon sound business principles. 9. I pledge by fidelity to the fundamental principles of American government and to hold him a traitor who infringes on our constitutional safeguards. The adoption of this Code of Ethics by the National Association of Merchant Tailors of America places a sacred obligation on each of its Members to sincerely and faithfully uphold it in letter and spirit. TEACHERS' AGENCIES NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF TEACHERS' AGENCIES Adopted at organization in 1914: CODE OF ETHICS In order to bring about a more harmonious relation among the Agencies, to make our work more professional, and to advance all educational interests, the following Code of Ethics was unanimously adopted: First: In case of conflict between Agencies on a claim, said claim may be submitted to a Committee of three disinterested Agency Managers, who shall go over the facts submitted by the interested parties and render a decision, from which there shall be no appeal. Second: In case of a disputed obligation between an Agency and a candidate, the facts relating to such dispute, may be submitted to a committee of three Agency Managers. Said committee may investigate and determine the merits of the claim. Should the committee find the Agency claim valid, it may write the candidate the results of its finding, urging the settlement of the same. In case the committee shall find the Agency claim unwarranted, it shall so advise said Agency, recommending that the claim be dropped. Third: No Agency shall share any part of the commission with an employing officer or with any person, not an agency representative, reporting the vacancy. Fourth: All information received by an Agency concerning a candidate must be kept absolutely confidential so far as the candidate is concerned. TEACHING NATIONAL LEAGUE OF TEACHERS' ASSOCIATIONS Adopted July 1922: CODE OF ETHICS We believe that one who aspires to be a leader of youth should have first of all, character that subtle and indefinable quality which is finer than the finest deeds, greater than the greatest facts, which includes, but transcends honor-a nice sense of what is right, just, and true, with a course of life corresponding thereto; Vision-a supreme faith in the ultimate triumph of the ideal good; Patience which means the ability and the willingness to wait, and may also mean kindliness to evil-doers, and bearing with the weaknesses of others; Justice-recognizing in our fellow-man another selfseeing both sides of every question; Benevolence that which helps another to help himself -not indulgence; That energy and enthusiasm which can be satisfied only by seeing ambition realized; take." Service "The power to give the world more than I And with these a broad education, both liberal and professional, as a preparation for one's life work, so that he do it conscientiously and with pleasure because he can do it well. "And it came to pass that after a while the artist was forgotten-but the work lived." BARNARD CLUB, RHODE ISLAND Adopted 1915 (address Commissioner of Public Schools, PRINCIPLES OF PROFESSIONAL ETHICS AND COMITY In view of the fact that education in all its phases may now legitimately and properly be regarded as a profession, to which great numbers of men and women are devoting their lives, in view further of the importance of this profession in the immediate service of the state closely parallel with that of diplomacy or of arms, it would seem that, for the greater efficiency of that service and for the well-being of the members of the profession, there should exist a definite code of professional comity and ethics, summarizing and supplementing the somewhat vague usages in vogue among us with reference to each other, to our superiors and subordinates in office, to the state and community we serve, and to the pupils under our charge. Such a code adopted by the teachers themselves, or by influential organizations among them, would be of service in preparing young candidates for the profession, in eliminating friction among practitioners, in determining right and wrong where differences have arisen, in influencing the attitude and action of the laity toward members of the profession, in promoting efficiency in the actual practice of teaching, and in advancing professional ideals.... MICHIGAN STATE TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION CODE OF PROFESSIONAL ETHICS FOR TEACHERS 2. A clear understanding of the law of contracts is incumbent upon a teacher. Since a teacher should scrupulously keep whatever agreement is made, he should refuse to sign a contract unjust and humiliating in form. 3. It is unprofessional for a teacher to resign unless his contract provides for release on giving of proper notice. 4. It is unprofessional for a teacher to sign a yearly contract to teach for a wage that is not sufficient to cover living expenses for twelve months. 5. It is unprofessional for a teacher to underbid, knowingly, a rival in order to secure a position. It is expected that a teacher will verify a rumor of a vacancy before filing an application. In a graded school, application should be filed with the superintendent. 6. It is unprofessional for a teacher to interfere in any way in matters of discipline between another teacher and pupil. 7. It is unprofessional for a teacher to bear tales to the administration about another teacher. However, it should be con What /lishnit eise, can he do? |