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To All Members   -10-   June 25, 1942

they don't do their bidding. All this is just plain tropical breeze. The Army doesn't wish to get mixed up in any of this kind of squabble. They have enough troubles of their own. All they are interested in is getting the job done as quickly as possible.

Another thing we hear about continually from the companies is that we would pay you more and this and that, but the Army auditors won't stand for it. This is some more of the same brand of breeze.

On June 2 we met for the first time with an air carriers' negotiating committee made up of Messrs. S.L. Shannon of Eastern Air Lines, John A. Collings of Transcontinental and Western Air, and Robert M. McCraith of the Air Transport Association. The fourth member of this committee, Bruce E. Braun of Chicago & Southern, was not at the meeting. At this conference, which lasted one day, the conflict between our new monthly flight time law, H.R. 6799, and the monthly flight time section in our agreements which reads as follows,

"Eighty-five (85) hours of flying shall constitute the monthly maximum for pilots"

was removed by the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding, a printed copy of which is enclosed with this letter. This is being sent to the pilots of all the companies but at the same time we wish to point out that it does not apply to the pilots of United and American. We were negotiating with these companies separately on June 3 on the same questions and they were not represented by the air carriers' negotiating committee. These two companies, United Air Lines and American Airlines, have since fallen in line on the questions involved, with the balance of the carriers, namely:

Braniff Airways, Inc.
Colonial Airlines, Inc.
Chicago and Southern Air Lines, Inc.
Continental Air Lines, Inc.
Delta Air Corporation
Eastern Air Lines, Inc.
Inland Air Lines, Inc.
Mid-Continent Airlines, Inc.
National Airlines, Inc.
Northeast Airlines, Inc.
Northwest Airlines, Inc.
Penn-Central Airlines, Corp.
Trans. & Western Air, Inc.
Western Air Lines, Inc.

Therefore, these matters have been settled on a nationwide basis. Remember, the enclosed Memorandum of Understanding applies to all pilots except those on United and American. As soon as a similar Memorandum of Understanding has been negotiated with each of these two companies, copies will be printed and sent to the pilots of United and American.

You will notice this Memorandum also covers the matter of one-eighty-fifth more pay for the copilots for every hour they fly each month in addition to eighty-five.

Any additional supplemental agreements that are negotiated will be made up in printed form by Headquarters and distributed to all the pilots involved. All of these supplemental agreements, memorandums of understanding, and so forth, should be pasted in your copy of the employment agreement as soon as received, including the enclosed (UAL

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