Unionization?

Shorter hours, longer pay, group protection, a fixed scale of wages to abolish discriminatory employment--such were the keynotes of a cry for the unionization of the U. S. aviation industry sounded last week by Dale ("Red") Jackson, part-possessor of the world's unofficial endurance refueling record (TIME. Aug. 12). With L. H. Atkinson, until recently sub-executive for Universal Air Lines, he sent out the first of 140,000 letters to pilots, mechanics, apprentices and student flyers to get them to affiliate with the American Federation of Labor. They seek to promote brotherly fellowship, make working conditions safer, establish a standard wage; protect airmen from unjustifiable discharge, limit the hours of labor, promote the general well being of aircraft workers. Stirring them to this effort is their belief that airlines are thinking of cutting the pay of all classes of employes except officials. Both unionizers are friends of Col. Lindbergh.

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