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NORTHWEST AIRLINES - MASTER EXECUTIVE COUNCIL 
Resolution of April 4, 1968

WHEREAS the Federal Air Regulations have provided for the 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 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 Lines Pilots Association has successfully sought through the processes of administrative bureau 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 with specific direction in these premises, and

WHEREAS recent efforts personally initiated by individual ALPA members 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 Transportaion, 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 Pilot Association, Mr. Charles Ruby, to take expeditious action to renew the Association's efforts to overcome the existing Federal Air Regulation pertaining the 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 this Master Executive Council through its chairman, inform the Management of Northwest Airlines, Inc., of our position and since it is beneficial to both parties, solicit the assistance of Northwest Airlines, Inc., in accomplishing the rescinding of the compulsory age 60 retirement regulation.