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"Schedule With Safety"

NEWS RELEASE
from News Bureau, Air Line Pilots Association
3145 WEST 63rd STREET, CHICAGO 29, ILLINOIS

For Release: IMMEDIATELY

CHICAGO, ILL. - (September 14) The Air Line Pilots Association (AFL) today learned authoritatively that a stockholder's complaint, asking appointment of a temporary and permanent receiver for National Airlines, whose regular, veteran pilots have been on strike since February 3, has been filed in the Federal District Court in New York. 

According to Samuel J. Cohen, of New York, attorney for Ilse Johnson, the plaintiff, the complaint charges that the corporation is in "immediate danger of insolvency" and that its certificate to operate as a scheduled air carrier is in jeopardy. Named as defendant is George T. Baker , President and principal stockholder of the company and National Airlines, Inc.

The complaint accuses Baker of "domination and control" of all the officers and directors of National Airlines, Inc., in carrying out "a policy of deliberate provocation of strikes and labor disputes, refusal to bargain, refusal to comply  with the provisions of the Civil Aeronautics Act and of the Railway Labor Act, refusal to mediate and arbitrate, and deliberate and reckless refusal to comply with and observe the terms" of an agreement between the company and the pilots' union.

The complain seeks (1) an order requiring the defendant to pay and restore to the corporation a sum in excess of One Million ($1,000,000) Dollars; (2) an order that the defendant by required to pay for all damages for the alleged mismanagement; (3) an accounting from the (more)