Registry No. 1732-02 

NATIONAL RECOVERY ADMINISTRATION 

PROPOSED CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION 

FOR THE 

INSURANCE AGENTS 

INDUSTRY 

AS SUBMITTED ON AUGUST 30, 1933 

The Code for the Insurance Agents 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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SUBMITTED BY 

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF INSURANCE AGENTS 

(II) 
CODE OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF INSURANCE 

AGENTS 

Being in sympathy with the spirit and purpose of the N ation~l 

Industrial Recovery Act, and to forward the program of the President of the United States leading to the economic and business recovery of the country, the following provisions are hereby established 

as a Code of Fair Competition for Insurance Agents. 

ARTICLE I-APPLICATION OF CODE 

The provisions of this Code shall apply to all insurance agents in 

the field of fire, casualty, indemnity, surety, and marine insurance. 

ARTICLE II-"LABOR PROVISIONS 

SECTION 1. (1) 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) No employee and no one seeking employment shall be required as a condition of employment to join any company union or 

to refrain from joining, organizing, or assisting a labor organization 

of his own choosing; and 

(3) Employers shall comply with the maximum hours of labor, 

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

SEc. 2. 0 liild L abo1·.-After Augu t 31, 1933, no person under 

sixteen years of age shall be employed, except that person between 

fourteen and sixteen year of age may be employed for not to exceed 

three hours a day and tho e hour betwe~n 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., in such 

work as will not interfere with hours of day school, provided however, that where a State Law I rescribe. a higher minimum age, no 

per on shall be employed in such State below the age specified by 

uch tate Law. 

ARTICLE III-HouRs OF E rPLOYl\IENT 

(a) Not to work any employee engaged in the business of insurance for an average of more than 40 hours in any 1 week except outside repre entative con i ting of adjuster appraiser collectors 

investigator inspector , ervice engineers, special agent , solicitors, 

and raters whose time and dutie for the mo t part are outside of the 

office. 

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(b) The maximum hour fixed 1n the foregoing paragraph 

( a) shall not apply to employees in a managerial or executive 

capacity and to their technical a sistants who now receive more than 

$35.00 per week; nor for an aggregate period not exceeding eight 

weeks in any one year to employee on emergency work or pecial 

work necessary to furnish data or information required by companies 

for their annual statements, or under circum tances other than usual 

routine, or special data required by the re pective state in their 

supervision of the insurance busine s or to extra work in offices on 

account of an unusual number of loss claims or to special work where 

restrictions in hours of highly technical workers would una voiclably 

hamper operations, or be disadvantageous to the public. 

1-\RTICLE IV- "\1/ AGES 

SECTION 1. Employees engaged in the business of in urance shall 

be paid not (a) Less than 15 a week in any city of over 500,000 

population or in the immediate trade area of such city; 

(b) Less than $14.50 a week in any city between 250,000 and 

500,000 population or in the immediate trade area of such city; 

( c) Less than $14 a week in any city between 25,000 and 250,000 

population or in the immediate trade area of such city; 

( d) In towns of less than 25,000 population all wages shall be 

increased by not less than 20 percent, provided that this shall not 

require wages in excess of $12 a week. 

SEc. 2. (a) Messengers may be paid not less than 75 percent of the 

minimum wage above specified; 

(b) J-unior file clerks for a period of six months after employment 

may be paid not less than 75 percent of the minimum wage above 

specified. Employees referred to in Sections 2 (a) and 2 ( b) shall not exceed 10 percent of the total number of employees, except that one 

such employee shall be permitted in offices employing up to ten, and 

two in offices employing up to twenty. 

ARTICLE V- GENERAL 

SECTION 1. The National Association of I nsurance Agents shall 

impose no inequitable restrictions on its members and participation 

in its activities. 

SEC. 2. This Code and all the provisions thereof are expressly made 

subject to the right of the P resident, in accordance with the provisions of Clause (10-b) of the National Industrial Recovery Act, from 

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

or regulation, issued under Title I of said Act. SEc. 3. Such of the provisions of this Code as are not required t o 

be included therein by the National Industrial Recovery Act may, 

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

changes in conditions or experience may indicate. This Association, 

in submitting this Code, reserves the right to file supplementary provisions to this Code, or additional Codes will be submitted for the 
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:approval of the President to prevent unfair competitive practices 

and to effectuate the other purposes and policies of Title I of the 

National Industrial Recovery Act. 

SEc. 4. Population for the purpose of this agreement shall be detern1ined by reference to the 1930 Federal Census. 

SEo. 5. This Code shall become effective when approved. 

NATION AL Assoc1ATION OF INSURANCE AGENTS, 

By J. B. MILLER, Assutant Secretary. 

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