Approved Code No. 105-A.mendment No.1 Registry No. 1404-02 

NATIONAL RECOVERY ADMINISTRATION 

AMENDMENT TO 

CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

AUTOMOTIVE PARTS AND 

EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURING 

INDUSTRY 

AS APPROVED ON MARCH 29, 1934 

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Approved Cede No. 105- Amendment No. 1 

AMENDMENT TO CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

AUTOMOTIVE PARTS AND EQUIPMENT 

MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY 

As Approved on March 29, 1934 

ORDER 

MoDIFICATION OF CoDE oF FAIR CoMPETITION FOR THE AuTOMOTIVE 

pARTS AND EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY 

An application having been duly made in behalf of the Automotive 

Parts and Equipment Manufacturing Industry, pursuant to and in 

full compliance with the provisions of Title I of the National Industrial Recovery Act, approved June 16, 1933, and the provisions of 

the Code of Fair Competition for the Automotive Parts and Equipment Manufacturing Industry, duly approved on November 8, 1933, 

tor approval of an amendment to said Code; and the annexed report 

on said amendment, containing findings with respect thereto, having 

been made and directed to the President: 

NO"\V, THEREFORE, on behalf of the President of the United 

State, I, Hugh S. Johnson, Administrator tor Industrial Recovery, pursuant to authority vested in me by Executive Orders 

of the President, including Executive Order Number 6543-A, dated 

December 30, 1933, and otherwise; do hereby incorporate by reference said annexed report and do find that said amendment and 

the Code as constituted after being amended comply in all respects 

with the pertinent provisions and will promote the policy and purposes of said Title of sa.id Act, and do hereby order that, effective 

immediately, the said Code be and it is hereby amended in the 

following particulars : 

1. In Article III, Section 1, which has heretofore read as follows: 

"No employee engaged in the processing of products of this Industry, and in labor operations directly incident thereto, shall work 

or be permitted to work in excess of 40 hours per week, averaged 

over each six months' period from the effective date, provided, however, that such employees may be employed not more than 6 days 

or 48 hours in any one week, and employees engaged in the preparation, care, and maintenance of plant, machinery, and facilities of 

and tor production and in plant protection, shall be exempt from 

the weekly limitations above provided, but the hours of employment 

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of any . uch exempted employee.· ·hall not exceed 42 hours per week 

aYeragell on an annual ba ·i .. :', 

haH be moclifi l to rea l a.s follmY · : 

'N' o employee ngaged in the proces ing of products of this In- du try and in labor operation directly incident thereto shall work 

or be permitted to 'York in exee · of 40 hour .... per week, averaged 

over each period of one year from the eff ctive date, provided, however that .-uch employee · may be E'mployecl not more than 6 clays or 

4 hour.- in any one week and employees engaged in the preparation, 

rare and maintenance of plant machinery: and facilities of and for 

ptlOdnction and in plant protection, shall be exempt from the weekly 

ljmitations above provided, but the hour of employment of any su~h 

exempted employee . hall not exceed 42 hour per week averaged on 

an annual ba ·i!".' 

2. In Article IlL e tion 2, which ha heretofore read as follows: 

'No office. ·alaried r other employee. not coverPcl by paragraph 

(1) of thi · Article. receiving le · than ~35.00 per week, hall work 

or be permitted to work mor than 6 days or 48 hour in any one 

week and not more than an average of 40 hour · per week for each 

six month · period from the effective date.', 

hall be modifi <1 to read a · follow : 

' No offi •e, alaried, or other emplo) ee, not covered by paragraph 

(1) of this Article, receiving less than $35.00 per week, shall work 

or be permitted to work more than 6 day · or 48 hours in any one 

we k and not more than an average of 40 hour · per week for each 

period of one year from the effectiYe date., ; 

and do further order that the previou. approYal of ._ aid Code be and 

it i hereby modifie l to include an approval of said Code in its 

entirety a. am nded. 

HuGH S. JoHN oN. 

Admitli.·tratO?' fm· Industrial R ecovery. 

Approval recommended: 

1{. M. SnrP ON 

D£vision Adm.ini trator. 

WASIIINGTON D.C., 

March 29, 1934. 
REPORT TO THE PRESIDENT 

The PRESIDENT, 

The White House. 

Sm: The Code Authority of the AutomotiYe Part and Equipment 

Manufacturing Industry has made application in behalf of said 

Industry that the Code of Fair Competition for said Industry be 

amended so as to permit the averaging of hours per week over a 

period of one year from the effective date in tead of over each i x 

months' period from the effective date. 

The reason for reque ting this am_endment is that due to the recent 

change in the Code for the Automobile 1\IIanuf.acturing Indu 'try 

whereby the member · of that Indu try are allowed to average hom·s 

over a period of one year, the automobile manufacturer:· are able to 

work the maximum hours per week during the peak production 

period while the automotive partb manufacturers, who .. upply a, 

large proportion of the parts for automobile production, are faced 

at the present time with the necessity of reducing the hours of employment per week in order to arrive at the average permitted mHler 

the Code for the six rnonths' periol ending :May 18, 1934. 

In order to comply with the provision of the Code as now written, 

the parts manufacturers are faced with the alternative of working 

np to the maximum of 48 hours per week permitted by the Code until 

approximately April 10, 1934, at which time they would have to lay 

off their men in order to stay within the averaging provi ·ion of the 

Code or drastically reduce the hours per week imme liately for the 

balance of the penod. In either case they would be unable to maintain the necessary production of parts for automobile production 

which: in turn, would 1nake it impo ible for the automobile manufacturers to maintain production schedules. 

Owing to the close proximity of automotive part · plants and 

automobile plants, the parts manufacturer have been faced for . ·everal week with the problem of retaining their skilled worker who, 

aware of the ability of the automobile manufacturer to work a 

greater number of hours per week during the peak period, have in 

large numbers been leaving the part· plant and going to work in 

automobile plants. I am advised that in one case thi. · turn-over has 

been at times as high as 100 men per day. 

I have been advised that a survey, which i practically completed, 

shows that there are, at the present time, more employees in the 

Automotive Parts and Equipment Manufacturing Industry than in 

the peak period of 1929 and that the average hourly rate is at lea -t 

equal to that of 1929. 

FINDINGS 

The Deputy Administrator in his final report to me having found 

as herein set forth and on the basis of all the proceedings in thjs 

matter; 

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I find that: 

(a) Compliance with the Code as now written on the part of 

the automotive parts manufacturers would result in a drastic curtailment of production. 

(b) Such curtailment would result in similar curtailment of 

production in the automobile Industry. 

(c) The Automotive Parts and Equipment Manufacturing Industry has effectuated the purposes of the National Industrial Recovery 

Act, employment being greater than that of 1929 and average hourly 

rate of pay being at least equal to those of 1929. 

For the e reasons, therefore, I have approved this application. 

Respectfully, 

MARCH 29, 1934. 

Approved Code No. 105-Amendment No. 1 

Registry No. 1404-02 

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HUGH s. JOHNSON' 

Ad1ninistrator. 
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