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Resolution #1

WHEREAS the Federal Air Regulations have provided for compulsory retirement of commercial airline pilots upon reaching sixty years of age, and

WHEREAS many of the commercial airline pilots associated with the Air Line Pilots Association in membership status have always been, and still are of the opinion, both individually and collectively, that such Federal Regulations by a Federal Bureau are unreasonably discriminatory against the individual airline pilot and were originally promulgated by an unconscionable person or a small group of persons dominated by an unconscionable person, and 

WHEREAS the Air Line Pilots Association has unsuccessfully sought through the processes of administrative bureaus and the law courts to overcome the effects of the compulsory retirement law, and 

WHEREAS Association officers are apparently reluctant to make further expenditures of money or effort without specific direction in these premises, and 

WHEREAS recent efforts personally initiated by individual ALPA members of Eastern Air Lines resulted in meetings with present members of the Federal Aeronautical Authorities and also individual meetings with certain Congressmen and Mr. Alan Boyd of the Department of Transportation, and 

WHEREAS the above stated meetings do give a reasonable indication of possible success in changing existing law through congressional action,

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that this Master Executive Council through its Chairman, request the President of the Air Line Pilots Association, Mr. Charles Ruby, to take expeditious action to renew the Association's efforts to overcome the existing Federal Air Regulation pertaining to the arbitrary blanket retirement of commercial airline pilots from active flying in their profession at age 60, and such efforts shall be in any direction that appears to be proper to Mr. Ruby,

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that Mr. Ruby is requested by this MEC to coordinate its requested action by making same known to other Master Executive Councils.