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3. Adjust the wage structure of the piloting profession to reflect

(a) increased responsibility, which has relationships to greater productivity

(b) cost-of-living increases

(c) better achievement by the pilot group as compared to others of the nation's labor and professional organizations

(d) recognition of the professional requirements of the present-day air line pilot

4. Achieve changes in working rules to assure adequate and proper rest periods, as necessitated by additional strains resulting from operation of faster, more demanding equipment.

5. Provide a stabilized level of employment, and create a national agency within ALPA, covering all forms of pilot employment - research, development, commercial - which maintains the most complete and up-to-date listing available.

6. Provide adequate furlough protection, necessitated by such factors as

(a) reduction in pilot force

(b) technological unemployment

7. Provide adequate income protection necessitated by forced or premature retirement due to, for example

(a) physiological aging rating

(b) physical disability

THIS PROGRAM is sorely needed. Nothing in it is beyond achievement. However, it will require a man with the distinguished background, experience and abilities of James M. Landis. He will bring to the Air Line Pilots Association - and our profession - a prestige never before enjoyed. But equally important will be his desire to restore the pilot to a high place in the public mind, and to safeguard continually the enviable career status of the pilot in the nation's economy.