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TO ALL MEMBERS           -15-           February 16, 1943

ALPA memberships when they are copilots for the reason that in this way they will be able to get in by paying the copilot initiation fee which is $25. instead of the first pilot initiation fee which is $100. and also they will be able to escape certain penalty sections of the By-Laws.

However, I wish to state again that each air line pilot should immediately upon employment with an air line, approach the chairman of the Air Line Pilots Association Local Executive Council and express his desire to become an apprentice member and, at the same time, furnish ALPA Headquarters with an authority-to-act card so that he may help to make up the representing majority necessary for the Air Line Pilots Association to be pilots' official representing agency under the Railway Labour Act, as amended.

CONVENTION ISSUE OF THE "AIR LINE PILOT"
The last convention decreed that a small booklet be written for distribution to the newer pilots outlining what the Air Line Pilots Association has accomplished. This is being done, but there is much that cannot be covered in a small brief of this kind. Many of us have been in the profession for years, and have been closely associated with everything that the pilots' Association has done, and thousands upon thousands of words have ben written on the subject in membership letters, similar to this letter for distribution to the members through the pages of our paper, the AIR LINE PILOT, and through various other mediums too numerous to mention.

What I am getting around to saying is that the December 1942 issue of the AIR LINE PILOT is an excellent medium for educating a newcomer copilot as to what the Air Line Pilots Association is about. Rather than let your copy go to waste, why don't you pas it along to a prospective member. All chairman have been furnished with extra copies of this issue for this purpose and if there are several of the newer boys with whom you are acquainted or who are working with you, it would surely be a good idea to get some extra copies from your chairman and ask each of the new boys to read one from cover to cover. If they will do this they will have a pretty well-rounded idea of the Air Line Pilots Association setup.

All of you who have been in the profession and members of the Air Line Pilots Association for very long know the story, and it should be told to the newcomer. this, together with the proper campaign of debunking, is the real key to keeping the air line piloting profession boat from rocking and shipping water, and to keep the good ship, "Air Line Transportation" sailing completely majestically on its goal -- the No. I position in world air commerce.

SUPPLEMENTAL AGREEMENT SITUATION
You are all familiar with the efforts that have been made by the opposition during recent months to tear down the hard-fought-for standards of employment, rates of pay, and working conditions of the air line pilots and copilots. This campaign was launched by our enemies