Registry No. 1728-2-19 

NATIONAL RECOVERY ADMINISTRATION 

PROP·OSED CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

CLUB INDUSTRY 

AS SUBMITTED ON AUGUST 31 , 1933 

WE DO OUR PART 

The Code for the Club Industry 

in its present form merely reflects the proposal of the above-mentioned 

industry, and none of the provisions contained therein are 

to be regarded as having received the approval of 

the National Recovery Administration 

as applying to this industry 

UNITED STATES 

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 

WASHINGTON : 1933 

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CIXll ~IANAGER' ASSO IATION OF .A:\IERIC\. 

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PROPOSED CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION FOR THE CLUB 

INDUSTRY AS SUBMITTED ON AUG. 31, 1933 

PRESIDENT'S REEMPLOYMENT AGREEM•ENT 

(Authorized by Section 4a, National Industrial Recovery Act) 

During the period of the President's emergency reemployment 

drive; that is to say, from August 1 to December 31, 1933, or to any 

earlier date of approval of a Code of Fair Competition to which he 

i: subject, the under igned hereby agrees with the President as 

follow. : 

( 1) After Augu t 31, 1933, not to employ any person under 16 

years of age, except that persons betv' een 14 and 16 may be employed (but not in manufacturing or mechanical indu trie ) for not 

to exceed 3 hours per day and those hours between 7 A.M. and 7 P.M. 

in . ·uch work as will not interfere with hours of day school. 

(2) Not to work any accounting, clerical, banking, office, service, 

or sales employees (except outside ·alesmen) in any store, office, department, establishment, or public utility, or on any automotive or 

hor e-drawn pa senger, express, delivery, or freight service, or in 

any other place or manner, for more than 40 hours in any 1 week 

and not to reduce the hours of any store or service operation to 

below 52 hours in any 1 week, unless such hours were le s than 52 

hour · per week before July 1, 1933, and in the latter case not to r.e-

(luce such hours at all. 

(3) We subscribe to Articles (1) and (~-) of the President's Reemployment Program with exception of Article (3) which we amend 

to read as follow : 

Not to employ any male factory or mecha.nical worker or artisan 

more than 56 hours per week and/ or not to employ any female factor_y or mechanical worker or artisan more than 48 hours per week; 

( 4) The maximum hours fixed in the foregoing paragraphs (2) 

and (3) shall not apply to employees in establi hments em.ploying 

not more than two persons in towns of less than 2,500 population 

which towns are not part of a larger trade area; nor to registered 

pharmacists or other professional persons employed in their profession; nor to employees in a managerial or executive capacity who 

now receive more than $35 per week; nor to employees on emergency 

maintenance and repair work; nor to very special cases where restrictions of hours of highly skilled workers on continuous proces es 

would unavoidably reduce production, but, in any such special case, 

at least time and one third shall be paid for hours worked in excess 

of the maximum. Population for the purposes of this agreement 

hall be determined by reference to the 1930 Federal census. 

( 5) To amend to read as follows : 

Not to pay any of the classes of employees n1entioned in paragraph (2) less than $15 per week in any city of over 500,000 popula9950--03 (1) 
tion, or in the immediate trade area of such city; nor less than $14.50 

per week in any city of between 250 000 and 500,000 population. or 

in the immediate trade area of such city; nor le s than $14 per week 

in any city of between 2,500 and 250,000 population or in the imm.ediate trade area of such city; and in towns of le s than 2,500 population to increase all wages by not less than 20 percent, proYicled that 

this shall not require wages in exce s of $12 per week, with the exceptions in the above where meals are served a credit of 30 cent 

per meal shall be allowed, andj or where rooms are included a further credit of $2.50 per week shall be allowed. 

(6) Not to pay any employee of the classes mentioned in paragraph (3) le s than 40 cent per hour unle ' S the hourly rate for the 

same clas of work on July 15, 1929, was les than 40 cents per 

hour, in which latter ca e not to pay les ~ than the hourly rate on 

July 15, 1929, and in no event les than 30 cents per hour. It is 

agreed that thi paragraph establishe a guaranteed minimum rate 

of pay regardles of whether the employee i compensated on the 

ba i of a time rate or on a piecework performance. 

(7) Not to reduce the compensation for employment now in excess 

of the minimmn wages hereby agreed to (notwithstanding that the 

hours worked in such employment may be hereby reduced) and to 

increase the pay for uch employment by an equitable readjustment 

of all pay schedules. 

(8) Not to use any subterfuge to fru trate the spirit and intent 

of this agreement which is, among other things, to increase employment by a universal covenant, to remm e obstruction to commerce, 

and to shorten hours and to raise wages for the shorter week to a 

living basis. 

( 9) Not to ipcrease the price of any merchandise sold after the 

date hereof oYer the price on .July 1, 1933, by more than is made 

necessary by actual increases in production, replacement, or invoice 

costs of merchandise, or by taxes or other costs resulting from action 

taken pursuant to the Agricultural Adjustment Act, since July 1, 

1933, and, in setting such price increa es, to give full weight to probable increases in sales volume and to refrain from taking profiteering 

advantage of the consuming public. 

(10) To support and patronize establishments which also haYe 

signed this agreement and are listed as members of the N.R.A. 

(National RecoYery Administration). 

(11) To cooperate to the fullest extent in having a Code of Fair 

Competition submitted by his industry at the earliest possible date, 

and in any event before September 1, 1933. 

(12) ·where, before June 16, 1933, the under ·igned had contracted 

to purchase goods at a fixed price for delivery during the period of 

this agreement, the under ignerl will make an appropriate adju tment 

of said fixed price to meet any increase in cost caused by the eller 

having signed thi President' Reemployment Agreement or having 

become bound by any Code of Fair Competition approYed by the 

President. 

(13) This agreement shall cease upon a pproYal by the Pre iclent 

of a cod to which the under igne l is ubJect · or, if the N.R.A .. o 

elects, upon ubmission of a code to which the undersigned is ubject 

and ... ubstitution of an. of its pro\isions for any of the term of thi. 

agreement. 
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(14) It is agreed that any person wh0 wishes to do hi part in the 

President's reemployment drive by signing this agreement, but who 

asserts that some particular provision hereof, because of peculjar 

circumstances, will create great and unavoidable hardships, may 

obtain the benefits hereof by signing this agreement and putting it 

into effect and then, in a petition approved by a representative trade 

association of his industry, or other representative organization designated by N.R.A., may apply for a stay of such provision pending 

a summary investigation by N.R.A., if he agrees in such application 

to abide by the decision of such investigation. This agreement is 

entered into pursuant to section 4 (a) of the National Industrial 

.Recovery Act and subject to all the terms and conditions required 

by sections 7 (a) and 10 (b) of that act. 

(15) Date of Effectiveness.-All provisions of this Code shall 

become effective and operative within ten days after the Code is 

approved by the President. 

Respectfully submitted. 

B. E. 0 GRADY, 

President, Club Managers Association of A1nerica, 

5 South liV abash Avenue, Chicago, Ill. 

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