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===DON'T FLY NATIONAL AIRLINES, INC.====
The air traveling public is entitled to know that G. T. Baker, President of National Airlines, has defied the recommendations of the Presidential Emergency Board for the settlement of the National strike. The President's Board found on July 9,1948, after lengthy and searching hearings, that National Airlines caused the strike and violated the federal law under which National Airlines operates; - and 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 the responsibility for the strike rests with the carrier.
The story revealed by the evidence is one of the 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".
THE RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE BOARD APPOINTED BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES TO END THE NATIONAL PILOTS' STRIKE WERE AS FOLLOWS:
"a) The Board, therefore, recommends that the striking pilots be reinstated as working employes.
"b) The Board further recommends that paragraph (m), page 23, of the agreement between National Airlines, Inc. and The Air Line Pilots in the service of National Airlines, Inc., effective December 9, 1941, be amended and supplemented to the end that in case the said System Board of Adjustment becomes deadlocked and unable to reach a decision on any matter property coming before it, either party may thereupon petition the National Mediation Board for the appointment of a neutral referee to sit with the Systems Board of Adjustment, as a member thereof. Such System Board of Adjustment as then constituted shall hear the parties with reference to the dispute pending before it, de novo, and a majority vote of the Board shall be final and conclusive between the parties.
"c) The Board also recommends that the O'Neal dispute be finally determined pursuant to the agreement of the parties dated May 14, 1947, by the System Board of Adjustment augmented by a neutral member to be appointed by the National Mediation Board".
All these things notwithstanding, the company still continues to attempt to operate with strike breakers in defiance of one agency of the government, the National Mediation Board, and the President's Board, and is receiving pay running into millions from another agency of government as a regular interstate air carrier under a law that states he cannot hold a Certificate of Convenience and Necessity unless he complies with the laws he is violating. The question is, how long can this weird and eerie comedy of federal law defiance while existing on federal money continue? Mr. John Q. Public, the answer must be that the Civil Aeronautics Board in Washington enforce the following section of federal law-401 ({{l or I?}}), paragraph 4 of Civil Aeronautics Act, which we quote:
"It shall be a condition upon the holding of a certificate by any air carrier that such carrier shall comply with Title II of the Railway Labor Act, as amended".
A STRANGE STORY
G. T. Baker, President of National Airlines, has violated the federal law, violated his employment agreement made with his pilots, and defied the recommendations of the President's Board to settle the strike. Until the company complies with the federal law, its employment agreement, and the recommendations for settlement of the strike made by the Board appointed by the President of the United States--
===DON'T FLY NATIONAL AIRLINES, INC.====
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