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To All 1948 Local Executive
Council Members - 3
January 2, 1948

council chairmen can give the ball to the next chairmen and let them carry on. It is necessary that you organize your Local Council activities immediately.

Remember also that in order to do a top job of Local Council work one must be willing and capable of cooperating with the other members of his council and Headquarters. Our staff of carefully schooled representatives at Headquarters have all been schooled on the necessity of cooperating with the ones they represent to produce the best results. This cooperation must operate both ways.  Without this kind of cooperation, effective representation is impossible.

Of top-flight importance is the matter of establishing and effectively organizing your council's finance and membership committees. The delinquent members and non-members represent our most critical problems. All non-members must be signed up promptly and all back dues and assessments must be constantly watched and kept strictly up to date. One of the things that Headquarters is doing this year is cleaning and pruning the limbs of ALPA's tree, so it will be strong and healthy and free from all extraneous and harmful retarding influence, is to insist that every member hold a membership-in-good-standing card before he be privileged to indulge in any ALPA activities whatsoever. The part of the By-Laws dealing with this reads as follows:

Art. III, Section 9 Paragraph (d)

"Any member who has not paid in full his Association dues, or initiation fee, or assessments, or fines, or penalties, or any combination of such named financial obligations, or any and all Association financial obligations, for which he has been duly billed by Headquarters in accordance with the Constitution and By-Laws, or has made satisfactory arrangements for the payment of all such amounts as provided in the Constitution and By-Laws shall be deemed to be A MEMBER IN GOOD STANDING of the Association and entitled to participate actively in all the activities thereof and entitled to all the rights, privileges, and benefits of membership in the Association."

It is every chairman's duty, and every vice-chairman's duty, never to convene an ALPA meeting unless or until every member is checked at the door of the meeting room or hall to see if his dues and assessments are paid and that he carried a paid-up good-standing membership card. If he doesn't have a card and hasn't paid his dues, he can do so then and there and be admitted to the meeting as a member in good standing. The above-quoted part of the By-Laws is very complete. Headquarters and all representatives have strict instructions to do nothing for an ALPA member unless he can produce first a paid-up card, unless of course there are extenuating circumstances as provided in the By-Laws.

It will greatly help us here at Headquarters if you will send us a