ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES, RETAIL of general gangway, scaffolding, use of hoisting facilities, stenographer, watchman, erection of temporary structures, enclosures or stairs, or any other similar charge, unless mutually agreed upon in advance. VIII. The contractor shall not be required to cut any work, except his own, and shall not be required to cut, alter or move his own work if due to any cause for which he is not responsible. IX. Unless specifically provided for in the contract, an extra charge will be made for any special finish or variation from the standard materials. By "standard materials" is meant standard material as regularly listed by the manufacturer whose product is specified. X. Changes in or additions to contract plans or specifications shall be made the subject of estimate or shall be based on the time and materials involved. XI. If the regular and normal progress of the work is held up due to extras or changes or other causes over which the contractor has no control, an interference or interruption charge shall be made, depending on the extent of the interference or interruption. XII. A fair price will be charged for drafting or engineering services when the contractor is called upon to render such services. XIII. The contractor shall not include temporary work in his estimate unless the quantities are distinctly stated. In no case should be included in an estimate maintenance or cost of current except on a percentage basis. XIV. "Cost" shall be understood to mean cost of material and labor and the administrative or overhead expense of the contractor. CANON OF ETHICS ADOPTED FOR THE GENERAL GUIDANCE OF MEMBERS Section 1. Members of the Association shall regard themselves as being engaged in a business in which there is a well defined duty and obligation towards the public and themselves. The business demands that members use every honorable means to uphold the dignity and honor of this vocation, to exalt its standards and to extend its spirit of usefulness. Section 2. Every member of this Association should be mindful of the public welfare and should participate in those movements for public betterment in which his special training and experience qualify him to act. He should not, even under his client's instruction, engage in or encourage any practices contrary to the Rules and Regulations Safeguarding Life and Property, for as he is not obliged to accept a given piece of work, he cannot, by urging that he has followed his client's instruction, escape the condemnation attaching to his act. Every member of this Association should support all public officials and others who have charge of enforcing safe regulations in the rightful performance of their duty. He should carefully comply with all the laws and regulations touching his vocation, and if any such appear to him unwise or unfair, he should endeavor to have them. altered. Section 3. It is unbusinesslike for a member of this Association to assist unqualified persons to evade or to lend himself in the evasion of any of the recognized rules and regulations governing electrical work. Section 4. Members of this Association should expose, without fear or favor, corrupt or dishonest conduct and practices of the members of their business, and it is their duty to bring to the attention of the proper authorities the existence of electrical conditions which are unsafe to life and property. Section 5. Members of this Association shall not falsely or maliciously injure, directly or indirectly, the business reputation, prospects or business of a fellow member of this Association. Section 6. Members of this Association shall not attempt to supplant a fellow member after definite steps have been taken toward his employment or toward the letting of a contract to him. Nor should they offer any interference in the carrying out of said contract or commission to the end that loss or damage may result to the fellow member. Section 7. Whenever disputes or differences arise between members, it should be the duty of the party to the controversy to submit the trouble to an arbitration of two disinterested members of this Association and in the event of a failure to arrive at a satisfactory settlement, then, upon request, the Chairman of the National Association shall appoint a third member of the Commission and the decision of the majority of said Commission shall be final and binding. ELECTROTYPING INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF ELECTRO- Adopted 1921: DECLARATION OF POLICY The interests of all engaged in similar lines of industry are identical. By Association only, through the organized exchange of information and the establishment of better and more uniform standards and practices, can these individual interests be best served. This Association, therefore, states its policy :— 1. This Association urges the formation of 100-percent-strong local organizations, each preferably with some form of paid employee, through whom the work of bettering trade relations of local electrotypers, correcting trade abuses, eliminating destructive competition, instituting cost systems, compiling statistical data and establishing of local scales, should be carried on. 2. This Association aims through collective action to lay the foundation for and maintain equitable relations between all factors that have to do with the economic conditions in the industry. It recommends uniform action in securing constructive legislation toward the elimination of any abuse of power or unfairness. This Association leaves to the determination of each member all questions of labor and management. 3. This Association upholds the right of all members to sell or purchase from whomsoever they may see fit, subject to paragraph 2. 4. This Association aims to extend accurate knowledge of costs of operation and production and uniformity of beneficial practices throughout the trade, that every electrotyping business may be so conducted as to insure its successful operation. It desires to cooperate with other organizations having similar purposes relative to the Graphic Arts or its branches. 5. This Association particularly aims to advance the art of electrotyping by the more thorough Business, Technical and Practical Training of its Employers and its Employees. 6. This Association aims to secure uniform local action between all local electrotypers' and local printers' organizations, and purchasers of electrotyping. It advocates conferences within. the membership of each side and invites joint action by both. 7. This Association leaves to its local organizations all questions relating to their own membership, subject, however, to the Constitution, By-Laws, and purposes of this Association, and to such legislation as it may make for the benefit of the whole craft. CODE OF ETHICS No business can be successfully conducted except through the application of fixed ethical principles by which its practices are governed. This Association recommends the following for the guidance of all employing electrotypers: OUR DUTY TO EACH OTHER 8. Personally and through our employees to apply the standards of fairness and justice to all dealings. 9. To practice clean, honorable competition. To not degrade or demoralize our business. To remember that destructive competition is most injurious to those practicing it. 10. To respect our craft as a worthy calling. To diligently improve ourselves, increase our efficiency and better our service. 11. To mix freely with all members of the craft. To study other's methods and to freely discuss our own. 12. To ascertain and record our own costs, statistics and data so that we may operate our business efficiently and sell our work profitably. To make no charges which cannot be proved by records as fair for the work done and service given. 13. To remember that each charge must not only cover direct labor and material, but also its proportionate cost of wear and tear of plant and material, interest on money borrowed or invested, losses on work and accounts, rent, taxes, insurance, office and clerical expenses, and all other expense items, including the cost of selling and fair salaries to all those proprietors who give time and attention to the business. 14. If operating on small capital and doing part of our own work, to realize that we cannot sell it cheaper than our large competitor, unless we are willing to live for less than do his own employees. We should charge for superior personal service, and quality. 15. To ever remember that anyone in authority can make the bid price as low as he pleases, but in so doing he does not reduce the cost one penny. 16. To pay no commissions to parties directly or indirectly representing the interests of the buyer. To be as honorable in our selling as we expect others to be when we are buying. 17. To discourage the production of inferior quality. To produce the best of that work which we seek to do. To educate our customers to the economic advantage of this course. 18. To remember that volume of duplicate work alone is the only basis for special prices. That under similar condiions costs are the same for one customer's work as for another. OUR DUTY TO OURSELVES 19. To welcome any new competitor entering our business, remembering that if our information or advice helps him to conduct his business on a better or more profitable basis, we are also, either directly or indirectly, the beneficiary; conversely, if he suffers, we may and probably will. 20. To remember that ignorance and prejudice are the most dangerous and demoralizing factors of business competition. To open our places, our books, and our experience to any competitor for any helpful purpose. 21. To avoid the evil of over-equipment. To never install a new machine or tool unless an old one is taken out, or unless really necessary because of a steady growth of permanent business. Idle machinery will weaken the stiffest backbone ever made, and make it impossible to maintain fair prices. Far better have an arrangement through which local competitors take care of each other's surplus work. 22. To decline estimates on work regularly done by another electrotyper until he has been consulted. It is never well to criticize another's price until we are in possession of all the facts. To be careful that our competition does not simply set a lower price at which our competitor simply continues doing the work there's nothing in it. If our business is injured by excessive competition, we should seek a solution by conference and discussion, remembering returns in kind simply aggravate the evil. PRICES AND ESTIMATES 23. Have a real knowledge of what your work costs, based on careful and systematic records. Determine on a reasonable profit and then apply your price with fairness to yourselves on contract work, and to your customer on open work. |