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REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON PILOT ENTERTAINMENT AND WELFARE FUND

TO: PILOTS IF COLONIAL AIRLINES, A.L.P.A. COUNCIL 28, NEW YORK

FROM: Committee appointed to investigate and recommend the discontinuance of such a fund, or to recommend a workable procedure for the operation of the fund. 

The committee recommends that such a fund be maintained and finds there is a definite need for such a fund for the following reasons.

1. For a number of years the Council has appointed a member to be responsible for the Entertainment Fund to take care of condonements such as flowers, and little favors for unfortunate individuals on behalf of the pilots Council 28. It has also been evident that the unlucky individual designated this task was also given the unpleasant responsibility of solicitating donations every so often in order to have enough money to work with.

2. By establishing this fund we are doing nothing more than has been done in the past. Now we can have some working rules to make it easier on the individual designated to do the job, we can have funds provided for him and a procedure to guide him in his work.

3. Rather than saddle one man with the whole responsibility we recommend a committee of 3 men to administer our proposed plan.

4. The committee recommends that a cash donation or a loan from the fund not be made to a pilot in need. We feel instead the fund committee should assist the pilot by advising him how to correct his situation. If he is in need of immediate cash the fund committee should work with the representative of the Credit Union in order to work out a loan for the pilot. If a pilot cannot pay his dues, cannot pay for Mutual Aid or has not secured it, cannot pay for Los of License Insurance or has not secured it, or has neglected to take our Hospitilization Insurance, he should sit down with the committee and discuss the situation. The committee should try to convince him that it is the best thing he can do for his own well being and for the good of his family. The committee should show him how he may use the Credit Union for his own good. If a pilot should decide to disregard the advice of the committee and or refuse to take out a loan with the Credit Union it seems to us there isn't anything the pilots or anyone else can do for him.

5. The committee also feels if it is proper to give flowers and carious condonements in time of grief or misfortune it might also be a good idea to make a definite payment in cash to a pilots immediate family in the event of his death, so that they would benefit directly in a small way from his contributions to the fund over the years.