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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."