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- 4 - vigor its action before the Civil Aeronautics Board to cause the revocation of Baker's certificate of convenience and necessity. The first hearing takes place on August 12. If there are additional hearings, they will follow shortly. All other legal actions initiated by ALPA against Baker are being processed to a conclusion with every possible vigor. This includes the million dollar damage suit filed against him in New York for causing the strike, and the pilots' back pay suit filed in New York. ALPA is considering seriously another suit recommending that the National pilots go to court and petition that a receiver be appointed for National Airlines on the grounds that their back pay amounting to something like $140,000 is no longer a good risk. If this court action succeeds, a receiver will be appointed for National Airlines. All this is being done in addition to the revocation action in Washington. No stone is being left unturned. The decision of the Presidential Emergency Board will be of inestimable benefit in all these legal actions. New strike literature - pamphlets, cards, and book matches - based on Baker's defiance of the Presidential Emergency Board's recommendations is enclosed herewith. An ample supply of match books, pamphlets, and cards is being sent you for use at your council meeting. Please see that they are passed out and the council members assembled should be asked for suggestions on how they feel the picketing and other strike-prosecuting efforts on National Airlines can be made more effective. Baker's business is cut down now to between 20 and 30 percent but a few of the scab-loving part of the public are still riding with the super scabs, flying under the banner of the chief "scabtain", G. T. Baker. Ways and means should be discussed by your council on how to further educate the air traveling public, through the medium of all our members, on the National Strike situation. No matter what ALPA's court action is or the fact that the revocation proceedings before the CAB are being pressed to an early conclusion to require Baker to get in line and comply with the recommendations of the Presidential Emergency Board, it is of utmost importance that the strike-prosecuting efforts be pushed with every possible vigor. About the only way this can be effected is through the unified effort of every air line pilot to cause the words, "DON'T FLY NATIONAL", to become a nationally known phrase to the air traveling public. All the local councils at the following points: New York, Newark, Washington, Jacksonville, Miami, and New Orleans, at which the National pilots are picketing, should discuss ways and means of augmenting the instructions in Headquarters letter dated July 7 relative to picketing assistance - "GIVE ONE DAY A MONTH TO THE NATIONAL PILOTS ON STRIKE" - from the pilots of other airlines. The National pilots are doing a splendid job. It has gotten to be more or less an endurance test but they are holding up admirably. It isn't a good policy to work a good horse too hard or push a good thing too far. The pilots of other air lines must get in there and help them. It is hard to imagine how muck it peps up the National pilots on picket duty to have a pilot from another air line call up and put on a picketing sign and go to work on the picket line for a few hours. We must have more of it. In fact, we should have so much of it that the
