Registry No. 1415-02 

NATIONAL RECOVERY ADMINISTRATION 

PROPOSED CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

DRIVE-IT-YOURSELF INDUSTRY 

AS SUBMITTED ON AUGUST 31, 1933 

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U.S. DEPOS1TOAY 

The Code for the Drive-It-Yourself 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 

For· sale by the Superintendent of Documents, "'ashington, D.C. - - - - - - - - Price 5 cents 
SUBMITTED BY 

AMERICAN DRIVURSELF ASSOCIATION 

(II) 
THE DRIVE-IT-YOURSELF CODE 

To ffectuate the policy of Titl I of the National Industrial R co very A t, during th period of the emergency, by reducing and relieving 

un mploym nt, jmproving the tandard of labor, liminating competitiv pra tices destructive of the interest of the public, mploy es, and mployers, relieving the di astrous effect of overcapacity, and 

otherwise r habilitating the Drive-It-Yourself Indu try, and by 

increa ing th d mand for the services rendered by the Drive-ItYourself Industry, by increasing the purchasing power, and in other 

respects, the following provisions are established as a code of fair 

competition for the Drive-It-Yourself Industry. 

I. Definition.-The term "Drive-It-Yourself Industry" as used 

herein is defined to mean the renting, leasing, or otherwise letting under 

bailment agreements, motor vehicles adopted for the transportation 

of persons and property under such arrangements as require the bailee, 

lessee, or renter to drive or operate the motor vehicle himself or to 

provide, at his own cost and expense, his driver, chauffeur, or operator. 

The term "effective date" shall mean the Second Monday after 

the approval of this code by the President. The term "persons" 

shall include all natural persons, partnerships, firms, associations, and 

corporations. The term "employees" shall include all persons employed in the various operations incident to the Drive-It-Yourself 

Industry. 

II. On and after the effective date the minimum wages per week 

that shall be paid by the employers of the Drive-It-Yourself Industry 

to any of their employees shall be as set forth in the following schedule: 

Cities of Cities of Cities of Cities of 

over 500,000 250,000 to 2,500 to less than 

500,000 250,000 2,500 popu- population population population lation 

·---- - North of the Mason-Dixon Line and the westward ex- Per week Per week Per week Per week tension thereof _____ ____ _____ __ _______________________ $15.00 $14.50 $14.00 $12.00 

South of the Mason-Dixon Line and the westward ex- tension thereof _____________ __________________________ 12.00 11. 00 10. 00 9.00 

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III. Whereas the Drive-It-Yourself Industry is engaged in the 

business of renting or leasing motor vehicles without drivers to the 

public, and whereas it is necessary in the conduct of said busine s t.o 

have the stations where the service is furnished and maintained open 

seven (7) days per week and twenty-four (24) hours per day, and 

whereas a large portion of the hours of employment in the Drive-ItYourself Industry are inactive employment but nevertheless necessary 

to furni h emergency service and maintenance, it will be neces ary to 

recoo-nize these conditions which are peculiar to the indu trv. ow, 

therefore, on and after the effecti e date, employers of the Dri e-ItYour elf Industry shall not operate on a schedule of hours of labor 

for their station employees receiving less than thirty-five ($35.00) 

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dollars per week, in excess of fifty-six (56) hours per week; with the 

exception of maintenance repairmen, for whom the schedule of hours 

of labor shall be not in excess of forty-eight (48) hours per week, and 

bookkeepers, stenographers, and secretaries, for whom the schedule of 

hours of labor shall be not in excess of forty (40) hours per week. 

For the purposes of this Code classification of the employees in the 

Drive-It-Yourself Industry is as follows: . . Maximum Hours. Class1ficatwn of Employees: of Labor 

Station Managers or Countermen________ _________________________ 56 

Emergency Maintenance Men__ ______ ____________________________ 56 

Checkers, Washers, Greasers, Helpers______________________________ 56 

Maintenance Repairmen__ ___________ ____________________________ 48 

Bookkeepers, Stenographers, Secretaries____________________________ 40 

In further consideration of the emergency conditions which are 

peculiar to the Drive-It-Yourself Industry, it is understood that the 

maximum hours of labor may exceed the maximum set forth in the 

SchP-dule contained herein for any one week; provided, however, that 

in such case the average number of hours per week for any six-month_ 

period and for any of the employees of the Drive-It-Yourself Industry 

classified herein shall not exceed the maximum hours per week for each_ 

classification provided for herein. 

IV. On and after the effective date, all the employers agree not to 

reduce the compensation for employment willch is now in excess of 

the minimum wages hereby agreed to (notwithstanding that the hours 

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

the pay for such employment by an equitable readjustment of all 

pay schedules, such readjustment of pay schedules to be based on 

those in effect imn1ediately prior to the passage of the National 

Industrial Recovery Act. 

IV. On and after the effective date, employers of the Drive-Ityourself Industry shall not employ any minor under the age of sixteen (16) years. 

VI. With the view of keeping the President informed as to the 

observance or nonobservance of .tills code of Fair Competition and 

as to whether the Drive-It-Yourself Industry is taking appropriate 

steps to effectuate the declared policy of the National Industrial 

Recovery Act, each person, firm, or corporation engaged in the DriveIt-Yourself Industry shall furnish bimonthly, to the Drive-It-Yourself 

Industry Committee (on such forms as may be hereafter provided), 

duly certified reports showing in substance the actual hours worked 

by the various occupational groups of employees and the minimum 

weekly rate of wages. 

VII. To further effectuate the policy of the National Industrial ·Recovery Act, the Drive-It-Yourself Industry Committee, the applicant herein, and such successor Committee or Committees as may 

hereafter be constituted by the action of the Drive-It-Yourself 

Industry is set up to cooperate with the Administrator as a planning 

and fair practice agency for the Drive-It-Yourself Industry. Tills 

Committee shall consist of five (5) members of the Drive-It-Yourself 

Industry to be elected by the Board of Directors of the American 

Drivurself Association and three (3) members without vote to be 

appointed by the President of the United States. 

Such agency may, from time to time, present to the Administrator 

recommendations based on conditions of the Industry as they may 
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dev lop, fr01n timet tim , whi h will t n to effectuate the p ration 

of th pro ision f thi ode and th poli y f theN ati n 1 ndu trial 

R v ry A t, and in particular alono- th f llowing lin : 

( ) Recomm nd~ tion a to the r quir 1n nt by th Admini trator 

of u h furth r r p rt from p r on no-ag in th ri - t- ur lf 

In u try of stati ti a.l information and k ping of unif rm a unt as 

ma be requir d to ure the proper ob rvanc of th od . (b) R comrn nd ti n for th tting up of a ervic bur u for the 

coli tion and di tribution of ngine ring, a ounting, and redit 

inforn1ation, and oth rwi e aiding the 1naller op rator in meeting 

th - ondition of the em ro- ncy and the requirements of thi ode. 

( ) Recommendation (1) forth r quirement by th Admini trator 

of r gi tration b per n ngaged in th Drive-It-Your elf Indu try; 

(2) for the requirement of the Administrator that prior to the entry of 

ad itional per ons, firms, associations, partnerships, or corporations, 

a mployers in the Drive-It-Yourself Industry, such persons, firms, 

as ociations, partnerships, or corporations shall register with the Admini trator their agreement to abide by and effectually carry out the 

terms of this Code in effectuating the policy of theN ational Industrial 

Recovery Act during the period of emergency. 

(d) Recommendations for changes in, or exemptions from, the 

provi ions of the Code as to the working hours and wage scale which 

will tend to effectuate the policy of the N ationa,l Industrial Recovery 

Act. 

(e) Recommendations for the making of requiren1ents by the Administrator as to practice by persons engaged in the Drive-It-Yourself 

Industry, as to methods and conditions of trading, the naming and 

reporting of prices which n1ay be appropriate to avoid discrimination, 

to promote the stabilization of the Industry, to prevent and eliminate 

unfair and destructive competitive prices and practices. 

(f) Recommendations as to the making available to the various 

persons engaged in the Drive-It-Yourself Industry of information 

regarding credit and actual functioning of any or all of the conditions 

of the Code, the conditions of the Industry and the operations of any 

and all of the members of the Industry covered by such Code to the 

end that during the period of emergency credit information may be 

adapted to the needs of such industry considered as a whole and to 

the needs of the small as well as the large units. 

(g) Recommendations for dealing with any inequalities that may 

otherwise arise to endanger the stability of the Industry and of service 

and employment. Such recommendations, when approved by the 

Administrator, shall have the same force and effect as any other 

provisions of this Code units. 

Such agency is set up also to cooperate with the Administrator in 

making investigations as to the functioning and observance of any of 

the provisions of this Code, at its own instance or on complaint by 

any person affected and to report the same to the Administrator. 

VIII. Where the costs of performing contracts entered into in the 

Drive-It-Yourself Industry prior to the presentation to Congress of 

the National Industrial Recovery Act are increased by the application 

of the provisions of that Act to the Industry, it is equitable and in 

furtherance of the purposes of the Act that appropriate adjustments 

of such contracts to reflect such increased costs be arri ed at by arbitral proceedings or otherwise, and the Drive-It-Yourself Industry 
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Committee, the applicant for this Code, is constituted an agency to 

assist in effecting such adjustments. 

IX. Employers in the Drive-It-Yourself Industry shall comply 

with the requirements of the National Industrial Recovery Act as 

follows: (1) That employees shall have the right to organize and 

bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing, 

and shall be free from the interference, restraint, or coercion of employers of labor, or their agents, in the designation of such representatives or in self-organization or in other concerted activities for the 

purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection; 

(2) That no employee and no one seeking employment shall be required 

as a condition of employment to jom any company union or to refrain 

from joining, organizing, or assisting a labor organization of his own 

choosing; and (3) That employers shall comply with the maximum 

hours of labor, minimum rates of pay, and other conditions of employment approved or prescribed by the President. 

X. This Code and all the provisions thereof are expressly made 

subject to the right of the President, in accordance with the provision 

of Clause 10 (b) of the National Industrial Recovery Act, from time 

to time, to cancel or n1odify any order, approval, license, rule, or 

regulation, issued under Title I of said Act, and specifically to the 

right of the President to cancel or modify his approval of this Code or 

any conditions imposed by him upon his approval thereof. 

XI. Such of the provisions of this Code as are not required to be 

included therein by the National Industrial Recovery Act may, with 

the approval of the President, be modified or eliminated as changes 

in circumstances or experience may indicate. It is contemplated that 

from time to time supplementary provisions of this Code or additional 

codes will be subrilltted for the approval of the President to prevent 

unfair competition in price and other unfair and destructive competitive practices and to effectuate the other purposes and policies of 

Title I of the National Industrial Recovery Act consistent with the 

provisions hereof. 

AMERICAN DRIVURSELF AssociATION, 

By A. J. SHAUGHNESSY, Secretary. 

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