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...damage suit against the Air Line Pilots Association, A.F.L. Strike may spread to United, but Trans World Airlines sidestepped the battle. It ordered its nonstop transcontinental flights to put down in Chicago to refuel and change pilots, thus avoid the cause of the walkout: exceeding an eight-hour limit on flying time for flight crews...
After weeks of fruitless negotiation, 1,200 American pilots belonging to the A.F.L. Air Line Pilots Association went out on strike to protect the long-standing eight-hour rule. The well-paid airmen ($19,000 a year for a first pilot) claimed that the extra flying time was a threat to passenger safety. While its planes were grounded, American scrambled to find space on other airlines and trains for the 20,300 passengers it normally flies daily between 90 terminals on 385 flights. In Manhattan, American President C. R. Smith said that the strike was a clear breach of contract...
NONSTOP FLIGHTS across the continent by American Airlines will be stopped if the Civil Aeronautics Administration has its way. The CAA, in effect, has charged American with violating crew regulations by keeping pilots aloft for more than the eight-hour maximum on better than half its flights (headwinds frequently slow westbound runs to more than nine hours), has petitioned the Civil Aeronautics Board to discontinue the nonstop flights...
...some 16% of the industry's 1,200,000 workers in the U.S. are out of jobs, and asked Big Steel to boost production. Though the steel operating rate has been rising in recent weeks (current rate: 70%), the union talked "crisis," proposed "a six-hour day with eight-hour pay." That out of the way, the union laid out sweeping proposals adding up to an estimated 50?-an-hour increase.* Items...
...floor, 250 men in grimy work clothes labored amid the ear-shattering hammer of hydraulic presses and the stench of burned rubber. On the floor below, four neatly dressed men stood by 16 softly purring machines. The four seemingly did nothing but watch the machines work. Yet in an eight-hour shift, each turned out about five times as many records as the sweating men on the floor above...