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but it takes the position that, if it is approved, it should not be approved until the first pilots and copilots of both companies are protected, including their seniority and all employment rights, in such a way that there will be a realistic and binding guarantee that no impairment of employment will result to either group."

With each company having separate and distinct employment agreements with its pilots, he averred, another factor was added. "Certainly," he said, "no merger, acquisition or any other form of action should be taken that affects the terms or conditions of these employment agreements which are continuing agreements made under provisions of federal law, without predicating final approval by the CAB on suitable disposition of problems arising between all parties concerned (both companies and their pilots respectively) from the differences between two legal and valid employment agreements.

Flight Engineers' Choice is Decisive
As the question of collective bargaining jurisdiction of flight engineers, about which there should normally be no question at all, continued unsolved this month, the flight engineers themselves have indicated with no uncertainty in representation elections exactly whom they desire to have as their representative. 

So far, in two representation elections--one on American Airlines on May 9 and the other on United Airlines on June 29--the results have been the same--overwhelming victory for the Air Carrier Flight Engineers Association which is being sponsored and assisted by ALPA.

AA 83-49; UAL 110-20--The American Airlines flight engineers voted 83-49 for representation by the ALPA affiliate while the results on United, 111-20, were even more decisive for the Air Carriers Flight Engineers Association. The United election significantly drew a 100 per cent turnout, with the entire list of 131 eligible flight engineers voting. 

Meanwhile, ALPA has made its position respecting jurisdiction of flight engineers definitely known to A.F.L. President William Green. 

Letter to Wm. Green--In a recent letter to President Green, ALPA's President said: "We take the position that the cockpit prerogatives and jurisdiction of the air line pilots have been invaded, violated, and encroached upon in a most unfair and unreasonable manner, and the fact that actions were taken, either inadvertently or otherwise, does not cause to follow that such actions should stand as being all-sacred, merely because they were prematurely and erroneously taken."

"The Air Line Pilots Association, long an affiliate of the American Federation of Labor, wishes at this time to caution that they will object to and resist strongly the granting of any affiliation prerogatives and jurisdiction invading air line airplane cockpits, without having

JUNE, 1949

IT'S REALLY OUT OF THIS WORLD
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-INS Photo
That's about the only way to describe this unusual photo and that, too, is pretty much the way the Tag The Navy Pinson its Martin Mercator jet-powered patrol plane, shown here lifting its nose from a wet runway after a remarkably short takeoff run. The 40-ton plane looks and acts like a twin engine fighter, hiding much of its potential power in two J-33 jet engines mounted behind the conventional propeller-driven motors. Its main attributes are quick takeoff, high rate of climb, great cruising range, and extreme maneuverability.

a binding working agreement worked out in advance, governing the relationship of the associated representing organization in the cockpit."

Disdains Threats--Mr. Behncke promised the American Federation of Labor that the matter would be brought before the Fourth Executive Board, but cautioned that the air line pilots would not be pressurized, coerced, victimized, or swayed by any threats of force. 

The air line pilots, Mr. Behncke declared, will be glad to meet with the proper persons to "work out a suitable arrangement of fair and square representation for every class and craft of air line cockpit personnel," but added: "We will not do it under compulsion or threat of lawyer pressure deals, or any other form of 'club in the one hand and olive branch in the other hand' line of procedure."

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-UAL Photo 
CHECKING UP Ex-United Air Lines stewardess, Josephine Prose, did a little checking on husband Ed Prose, UAL Captain from Local Council No. 12, UAL-Chicago, just before a special DC-6 flight for 30 former United stewardesses took off recently. The trip marked the seventh anniversary of the club formed in Chicago in 1941 and was highlighted by the initiation of Ellen Church, the world's first air line stewardess, as a new member.

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