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NATIONAL AIRLINES DEFIES PRESIDENTIAL EMERGENCY BOARD'S RECOMMENDATIONS TO SETTLE PILOT'S STRIKE

On May 15, 1948, the President of the United States appointed a Board to examine into and to determine who is responsible, the company or the pilots, for causing and failing to settle the National Airlines pilot's strike. After holding lengthy hearings in Washington extending over a period of many days and ascertaining all the facts respecting this strike. The Presidential Emergency Board found on July 9, 1948, that the company was guilty of the following and we quote:

"Failure to afford an impartial determination of the propriety of a pilot's discharge caused the strike AND RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE STRIKE RESTS WITH THE CARRIER."

"The story revealed by the evidence is one of disregard for statutory and contractual obligations on the part of the Carrier. IT INDICATES AN IMMATURITY AND LACK OF RESPONSIBILITY WHICH IS NOT CONSISTENT WITH THE DUTIES IMPOSED BY CONGRESS UPON CARRIERS IN INTERSTATE COMMERCE."

G. T. BAKER USES TAXPAYERS MONEY TO FINANCE STRIKE-BREAKING EFFORTS

The President's Board recommended that the pilots' strike be settled forthwith and recommended terms of settlement - clean-cut and fair. G. T. Baker, company president, has defied these recommendations and is, on the one hand, continuing his attempts to operate National Airlines with hurriedly recruited strike-breaking pilots, while on the other hand, he is being paid well by the federal government from the U. S. Treasury as a regular U. S. certificated air carrier. Strange as it may seem, but nevertheless true, G. T. Baker, National Airlines president, and his battery of lawyers, are defying one agency of government, the National Mediation Board, and while at the same time he is being paid handsomely by another agency of government, which money he is using to pay the cost of his strike-breaking efforts and his recalcitrant wrong-way labor relations policy.

How long will the American public stand for this weird and eerie manipulation at the expense of their tax dollars for which there is no plausible nor justifiable explanation nor excuse? Until this messy situation is cleared up and G. T. Baker, president of National Airlines is required to comply with the Presidential Emergency Board's recommendations for settling the strike, the air traveling public can help greatly - 

DON'T FLY NATIONAL AIRLINES, INC. 
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