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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

TELEPHONE GROVEHILL 6-2200

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August 23, 1950

Mr. M. A. Gitt
39 - 01 Main Street
Flushing, New York

Dear Mike:

I have your letter of August 3. The points you raise are, as usual, sound.

We will never agree to any arrangement where the loser pays the entire cost. This is an asinine suggestion and no credit to its author. On the Judge Simmons situation, I am dictating this on Sunday night and the office is closed. However, it occurs to me that I have never written to Simmons. Why don't you set up a set of questions or a proposed letter that you think I should write to him and let's try to get at him for a little bit closer to the bone clear interpretation of his decision. I don't believe in court actions, Mike. They just don't work out. Besides, if we start taking things to court, they will and finally we'll end up in one of the gosh-awful messes imaginable. Let's try an approach from the President of the Association to the Judge direct and see what comes of it. If he doesn't give me at least courteous attention and earnest consideration, I can't get at him from the angle of not being a good neutral which hurts these people more than anything else. In short, everybody must be answerable for his own actions and play the game straight across the board and if we want to know what his ramblings actually mean, we have a perfect right to ask him and if he doesn't answer us earnestly and intelligently, I am sure we can cause him to do just that or regret his stubborness [[stubbornness]] in the end.

Sincerely yours,

AIR LINES PILOTS ASSOCIATION

David L. Behncke
David L. Behncke, President

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