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Complete Sixteen Employment Agree THE AIR LINE PILOT Vol. 16—No. 8 Published by The Air Line Pilots Association, Intern Continental, Mid-Continent, Alaska Airlines Sign Agre[[ement]] [[image]] [[image]] TOPS IN SAFETY Gathering safety awards is old stuff to Sigmund Janas, president of Colonial Airlines, whose trophy shelf is anything but bare with two of the highest safety awards now gracing its air safety mantlepiece. Colonial's enviable safety record—17 years of commercial air line flying without a fatality of passenger or crew member—is largely the product of its president's insistence on a degree of all around safety that is almost a mania with him. One of the youngest of America's major air line presidents, Mr. Janas, who came up the hard way, has been associated with the development of the nation's transport industry since its infancy. One of the first things Mr. Janas did upon acquiring control and presidency of the Colonial Airlines in 1938 was to inaugurate a safety program that spared no precaution nor expense. Since then, strict adherence to the Janas-coined motto, "Safety Is Not Accident," has put Colonial out in front with a record that the larger airlines might level their sights on. Dual presentation of two safety awards by Ned H. Dearborn, president of the National Safety Council, was made recently at a luncheon honoring the operation staff of the comparatively small (Continued on Page 4, Col. 1) Scoffers Scoff Facts Are Facts The scoffers scoffed strong in July of 1941, when the handwriting on the wall was still a bit faded; they chimed in again in ridicule in April of 1945 even as the handwriting was becoming legibly distinct; and they scoffed with ever so much vigor in June of 1946, probably by this time just out of habit and just to be scoffing. The target of all of the scoffing of the scoffers was the concept of the career copilot and technological unemployment in the air line profession advanced by ALPA President David L. Behncke; the scoffers were the men bent on keeping copilots' pay down. At the first TWA Stratoliner arbitration hearings in July of 1941, President Behncke made a strong issues of the effects that technological unemployment would have on air line pilots and how the promotion of co- (Continued on Page 5, Col. 4) NO ACT OF GOD Aerial casualties says Eleanor Roosevelt, shouldn't be taken as an act of God. Writing recently in her column "My Day," the wife of the late aviation-minded President Roosevelt, to her readers: "The whole country, I am sure, was shocked at the loss of Ambassador George Atcheson, Jr., in a plane crash near Honolulu. The explanation of head winds and a faulty engine which consumed too much gas is a sad one, I think. And I hope it will lead to greater research. One should be able to discover faults in engines and one should be able to gauge winds and have some method of either carrying reserve fuel or refueling when gas gets low. "Death in itself is very unimportant, but when it is unnecessary and takes someone who has been useful to the nation, one cannot help but resent it. And one feels that it should not be accepted placidly as an act of God, when really it is due to our own human shortcomings." In Sept.--No Dog Day Doldrums With one eye on accelerated air safety activities, and the other on the rapid completion of all unconcluded employment agreements, Headquarters was taking the traditional autumnal "dog days" of late August and early September inf stride and nearing many of the goals set for ALPA as the home stretch for 1947 was coming into sight. The completion and signing of three more employment agreements—with Continental Airlines, and Alaska Airlines—kept the list on concluded employment agreements proceeding at their better-than-two-month clip and brought to 16 the total number of agreements which have been completed since ATA decided little more than a year ago to destroy all pilots' employment agreements. In contrast to this same period of a year ago, when negotiations on virtually all air lines had reached an apparent state of unbreakable deadlock and stale- (Continued on Page 3, Col 2) LATE NEWS Impetus Impetus will be added to the questions of flight engineers for four-engine aircraft by a Civil Aeronautics Board Hearing, scheduled for October 6 in Washington, at which views on flight engineers, design incorporation of flight engineers stations in future aircraft, flight radio operators, and flight navigators will be aired. Divided A sharp division of opinion exists among the domestic air lines over the rapidly growing trend to seek increases in passenger fares, with many advocating a "hold the line" policy while many others are preparing to follow the lead of Northwest Airlines which has filed with the CAB for a 10 per cent increase on one way fares to be made concurrently with a 10 per cent discount on round trips. Completed With the first Boeing Stratocruiser having been flown more than 44 hours on 24 flights in two months of flight testing, the second Stratocruiser is expected to be completed in October. FLIES WEST [[image]] —N. Y. Sun Photo Former mayor of the country's largest city and one of its greatest statesmen died at the age of 64 while sleeping. Death cane in the gray dawn at 7:22 a.m., September 20, 1947. He was the air line pilots' greatest friend and the father of most of their legislation. Without the help of the "Little Flower," there would have been no Title II of the Railway Labor Act. Dave Behncke, LaGuardia's life-long, close personal friend, and one of his really close confidants, wrote a last tribute from the nation's air line pilots. "To you, Fiorello H. LaGuardia, one of us, and our best friend, we shall keep you in our hearts and minds during life, and your deeds will live as long as there are men with wings. As you fly past on muffled wings from the blue of the day into the golden sunset of your last departure, we say, 'Ahead ceilings and horizons unlimited.' Our final salute is not farewell. It's bon voyage and 'TI RIVEDREMO UN GIORNO'." LaGuardia was a first member of ALPA. In the October issue will appear the story of LaGuardia, giving heretofore untold details of what LaGuardia did for the air line pilots and for all air line labor.
