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AIR LINE PILOTS ASSOCIATION
INTERNATIONAL
3145 WEST SIXTY-THIRD STREET
CHICAGO 29

September 18, 1948    

AFFILIATED WITH THE A.F. of L.
                                                                       
"SCHEDULE WITH SAFETY"

TELEPHONE GROVEHILL 2200 

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A.F. Foster                                    
703 Terrace Blvd.
New Hyde Park, N.Y.

Michael Gitt                              
148-25 Bayside                               
Flushing, L.I.,N.Y.                            

Clayton Stiles
28 Squirrel Hill Rd.                            
Roslyn Heights, L.I.,N.Y.

Dear Member:

Attached is a copy of a letter written by a Captain Robert A. Stone of United Air Lines. Also attached is a copy of memorandum entitled "Faults of the Act Line Pilots Retirement Act".

Mr. Stone came to Headquarters last week and had quite a discussion with him about the Pension Plan. First, I rather gained the impression that he was probably the unwitting tool of some insurance company representative, but the more I talked with him, the more I became convinced that he was quite probably sincere in his objections. I made it clear to him that a good way to wreck the Air Line Pilots Retirement Plan, would be to start a move against it that was propelled more by mass hysteria than anything else and not based on sound reasoning. He agreed promptly with this point of view and said that he wasn't against the Retirement Plan but, what he was trying to do, was to bring his influence to bear in such a way so as to result in the best possible law that could be obtained. In other words, he said he wanted to be constructive.

He requested that Headquarters circulate a form letter to all members on the Retirement Plan, bringing out the points he had raised, which he terms "Faults of the Air line Pilots Retirement Act", to Mr. Latimer and have him answer each one with a factual statement.  When Mr. Stone left my office, he said he would do this and obtained the address of Mr. Latimer.

There seems to have been quite a move started on certain parts of United Air Lines against the Retirement Plan. This is probably due to the fact that the company has a plan in effect and, obviously, company propagandists have been at work. I told Mr. Stone what Mr. Patterson had said about eliminating the Retirement Plan as a first move in a financial entrenchment if the company actually got its back to the wall financially, and how the company's Retirement Plan was worthless from a real security point of view.