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AFFILIATED WITH THE A.F. OF L.  

"SCHEDULE WITH SAFETY"

Air Line Pilots Association
International
3145 West Sixty-Third Street
Chicago 29 

August 5, 1948

Telephone Grovehill 2200  

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TO ALL ALPA LOCAL COUNCIL CHAIRMEN

Dear Chairman:

Attached is a current financial report showing which of the members of your council owe their Association back dues or assessments of both. In accordance with regular ALPA procedure, a copy of this report has been furnished  your Master Chairman. Certain Local Council's finances are in excellent shape, while others are not. Quite a number, in fact, need local collection effort.

Headquarters has been pinned down ever since the beginning of 1948, and especially since the start of the National strike on February 3, with an unusual burst of activity straight across the board in all fields of ALPA's representing work, the cost of which is astronomical. Representing activities, involving another round of employment agreement making with all of its attendant costs - expenses of conferences and flight pay loss; safety hearings and investigations; crash investigations; law suits; Presidential Emergency Board hearings; hearings before the CAB combating CAR changes; international activities; National Airlines Certificate of Convenience & Necessity revocation hearings; pilots' certificate CAA revocation proceedings; a steady stream of grievances and System Board of Adjustment hearings; to say nothing of the routine handling of ALPA affairs that have increased in amount and tempo so that we have not been able to hold our own financially. To all this has added to tremendous burden of battling successfully the National strike, which we didn't cause in any sense, but which was forced upon the Association by the most unscrupulous employer in the industry and our own brother members turning scabs, backed by the unlimited finances of the Air Transport Association.

When it's all said and done, approximately 40% of every dues dollar that comes into Headquarters flows back into the field to our members who are representing their brother air line pilots and, in other ways, working for ALPA.

The fire-trap air line equipment that has been built and brought on the air lines during the past months has burdened Headquarters with more expense of "must" investigations involving pilot investigators away from their runs, who must be paid flight pay loss; hearings in Washington; lengthy crash hearings all amounting to a chain of never ending air safety activity.