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cil meetings, a terrific amount of work can be handled with a minimum amount of effort. For example, in each council there are a number of younger copilot members who, as one old-timer put it, have "a brand-new education". If someone like this is put to work and used as a reading clerk and, if the work is organized properly before the council meeting starts, it can be made very interesting and a fast, interesting tempo can be utilized so that no one will go away feeling that the meeting was uninteresting and dull. They will go away feeling that they have learned something about their Association and what it is doing and much good will result. 

I have heard over and over again the following about council meetings. The chairman calls the meeting to order, starts out with the business of the meeting, and, when he brings up important briefs, reports, and letters, he states, "I have some Headquarters material here about certain things, etc.,etc." He proceeds by describing it briefly and offers to read it and proceed in regular order. Immediately someone jumps up and says, "Oh, let's dispense with that; we know what's in it." This skipping goes on for a time and the meeting is over. The next day members are discussing things back and forth and the following comments are heard, "What is going on in ALPA? What are they doing for us? What is their activity? What are our plans? We don't know, we haven't been told." And they haven't been told. While, at the same time, the whole story was in the chairman's brief case at the meeting the day before, but it wasn't disseminated. Let's eliminate this wrong-way procedure and line up our meetings so that every member has a full opportunity to know what is going on, and if he doesn't attend Association meetings, he doesn't deserve to know. The information is in the council mailing and in the letter sent to the chairmen between council mailings. It's up to them to get it to the ones they represent.

On the National strike, Baker on August 2, rejected officially the recommendations of the President's Emergency Board to end the strike. This was expected. On July 21, headquarters sent Baker a wire, which reads as follows:

"IN YOUR WIRES OF JULY 15 AND JULY 20 YOU HAVE ADVANCED TWO DIFFERENT REASONS FOR DELAYING A REPLY TO OUR REQUEST FOR A MEETING IN ORDER TO PUT INTO EFFECT PROMPTLY THE EMERGENCY BOARD'S RECOMMENDATIONS. BOTH THE COMPANY AND THE ASSOCIATION HAVE TODAY HAD 12 DAYS SINCE THE EMERGENCY BOARD'S RECOMMENDATIONS WERE ISSUED. YOUR DELAYING TACTICS AFFORD US NO OTHER ALTERNATIVE THAN TO ASK YOU TO ACCEDE BY THURSDAY NIGHT, JULY 22, TO OUR REQUEST TO MEET WITH YOU OR YOUR REPRESENTATIVES FOR THE PURPOSE OF PLACING INTO EFFECT THE EMERGENCY BOARD'S RECOMMENDATIONS. OTHERWISE WE WILL CONCLUDE THAT YOU HAVE REJECTED THESE RECOMMENDATIONS AND WE WILL ACT ACCORDINGLY."

Baker's rejection of the Emergency Board's recommendations was one of the most meaningless, insipid documents that ever came to the attention of ALPA. It obviously was ATA authored.

Headquarters is, at the present time, pressing with every possible