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To All Active ALPA Members -17- January 26, 1948 18 days. In both the TWA and AOA strikes, no strike benefits were due or payable for the first 7 days. The total time for which strike benefits were paid on TWA was from 19 to 34 days, depending on how quickly the pilots went back on schedule. On AOA, it was an even 11 days for everybody. If you have paid your TWA and AOA strike assessments, this part of this letter will serve as background information on a subject in which considerable membership interest has been expressed. Now that all members have the "why's" and "wherefore's", all unpaid strike assessments should come in promptly to wipe out ALPA's central treasury TWA strike benefit deficit and make it possible to pay the strike benefits due AOA first pilots. The TWA strike assessment deficit is badly needed for operating expenses and to help wipe out our current operating deficits. 7. A MORE RIGID ADHERENCE TO ARTICLE III, SECTION 9, AND GOOD AND BAD STANDING OF ALPA MEMBERSHIP DURING 1948. In most representing organizations, the difference between good and bad standing of members is very sharply drawn. ALPA's policy on this has always been tolerant and the By-Laws have been loosely interpreted. Experience has proved definitely that this policy will not work. Good and bad standing must be interpreted to mean exactly what the words mean. Article III, Section 9, paragraphs (d) and (e) of the By-Laws read as follows: -- GOOD STANDING -- "(d) Any member who has paid in full his Association dues, or initiation fee, or assessments, or fines, or penalties, or any combination of such named financial obligations, for which he has been duly billed by Headquarters in accordance with the Constitution and By-Laws, or has made satisfactory arrangements for the payment of all such amounts provided in the Constitution and By-Laws shall be deemed to be A MEMBER IN GOOD STANDING of the Association and entitled to participate actively in all the activities thereof and entitled to all the rights, privileges, and benefits of membership in the Association. -- BAD STANDING -- "(e) Any member who has not paid in full his Association dues, or assessments, or fines, or penalties, or any combination of such named Association obligations, or any and all Association financial obligations for which he has been duly billed by Headquarters in accordance with the Constitution and By-Laws and for which he has not made satisfactory arrangements to pay as provided in the Constitution and By-Laws shall be deemed, from the date of any such delinquency, to be A MEMBER IN BAD STANDING of the Association and he shall henceforth, for the duration of such period of bad standing, be deprived of all rights to participate in any activities of the Association in any manner whatsoever and he shall, while in bad standing, be denied all of the rights, privileges, and benefits whatsoever of membership in the Association."