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TO ALL MEMBERS -3-  February 16, 1943

in uniform. If there are any pilots in the profession who feel that they can't get along without imbibing, the best advice they can be given is to make arrangements as soon as possible to leave air line flying.

Volumes could be written on the subject, but the whole story is told in the following: "Liquor and air line flying just don't mix, and so long as the Air Line Pilots Association is representing the profession, drinking pilots will not be tolerated." As a matter of fact, air line pilots should not drink at any time. Some seem to think they must drink liquor to relax. This is just so much pure and unadulterated bologna for the reason that there are many other ways of relaxing that are much more effective, and certainly more conducive to continued good health. 

Before leaving this subject, please let me point out that if this doesn't apply to you, don't let it get under your skin, and if it applies to one of your friends, it would do a world of good for the profession if you would back him up in a corner and tell him just where he stands. 

We have made much progress on the liquor question, and I for one am not going to stand idly by and see us slip back into the old way of things, with which we are all quite familiar.

PROMPTLY NOTIFY HEADQUARTERS OF CHANGE IN STATUS

We have all been furnished copies of our By-Laws, and the revisions made at the 1942 Convention are being printed and will shortly be mailed you for inclusion in your By-Laws booklet. 

It has come to our attention that due to the rapid trend of events, there are many first and reserve pilots -- members of our Association -- who are being paid first pilots' salaries and apparently are content to ride along paying copilots' ALPA dues. 

None of us has the slightest bit of illusion about what we would be working for and the number of hours we would be flying if it were not for your hard-fighting organization. The ALPA dues are comparatively low, and when we use "comparatively" in this sentence we refer to comparing ALPA dues with the dues other representing organizations charge, who have not begun to do for their members what ALPA has done and is doing for its members, and the word "comparatively" also applies to the total salary you receive in comparison to what other working people receive. 

Quarterly dues are as follows:

First Pilots.................$25.00
Reserve Pilots............... 15.00
Copilots.....................  7.00

Half of ALPA's time is taken up battling company officials who persistently indulge in chiseling tactics in their dealings with us.