Air Lina Pilots Association LOS ANGELES JOINT COUNCIL OFFICE 21 Paige Boxes and 1 Manuscript Box Accession Number 431 The papers of the Los Angeles Joint Council Office were deposited with the Archives of Labor History and Urban Affairs in October of 1970. The Los Angeles Joint Council Office of the Air Line Pilots Association was established in January of 1950 and served as the headquarters of H.B. Cox, Regional Vice-President of ALPA. In July of 1952, ALPA ini- tiated a new policy of setting up regional offices, of which Los Ange- les was the first. The primary responsibility of the Regional Repre- sentative is to negotiate employment agreements with the airlines in his area. He also prepares grievance cases and acts as assistant to the regional vice-president. The collection covers the period from 1939 to 1970, with special empha- sis on the years 1947 to 1960. Important subjects are: Steward and stewardess organizing American Airlines strike, 1957-1958 Pan American Airlines strike, 1957 Western Air Lines strike, 1958 Series Description Series I - General Office Files, Boxes 1-3 This series consists mainly of correspondence between the ALPA Home Office and the Los Angeles Joint Council Office and between the Joint Council Office and the pilots' local executive councils of various airlines. Aside from routine correspondence, there are special files on accident reports, air safety and engineering, stewards and steward- esses, Master Executive Council meeting minutes for a number of air- lines, and negotiators' reports. The "personal" files of H.B. Cox deal with safety problems and conferences and the opening of the Los Angeles Office. The "personal" files of H.M. Jones are concerned mainly with negotiations and questions of policy. This series covers the years 1947 to 1965, especially the 1950's. -2- Series II - Airlines Files, Boxes 4-22 This series is arranged alphabetically by name of airline, and consists of multiple copies of agreements, amendments to agreements, letters of agreement, supplemental agreements, etc., between the various airlines and ALPA. Also present are negotiating files, general correspondence, and files on specific topics of interest to the pilots of a particular airline. For some airlines, especially American, Flying Tiger, Pan American, Trans World, United, West Coast, and Western, there are also pilot grievances, minutes of Local and Master Executive Council meetings, accident reports, strike manuals, ballots and correspondence, retirement plans, etc. This series covers the years 1939 to 1970, especially 1947 to 1960. -3- Series I - Office Files Box 1 1 - Accident reports (1955-1956) 2 - Air Carrier Flight Engineers Association 3 - ALPA: Board of Directors, miscellaneous material (1953-1954, 1957) 4 - ALPA: Convention reports (14th Biennial) (1956) 5 - ALPA: Credit union (1947, 1953-1954, 1956) 6 - ALPA: Dues (1953-1955) 7 - ALPA: Eight-Hour Rules (1954) 8 - ALPA: Executive Committee, minutes and memos (1953-1956) 9 - ALPA: Financial statements (1953, 1955) 10-13 - ALPA: General correspondence (1953-1957) (4 folders) 14 - ALPA: General policy of AFL jurisdiction (1957) 15 - ALPA: Group life insurance (1954-1955) 16 - ALPA: Instrument panel, proposed (1956) 17 - ALPA: Legislation (1954) 18 - ALPA: "Loss of License" insurance (1953-1956) 19 - ALPA: Merging seniority lists, 1954 convention action 20 - ALPA: Mutual Aid and Insurance, minutes and miscellaneous (1953-1954, 1956) 21 - ALPA: News bulletins (1957) 22 - ALPA: News releases, Chicago (1957) 23 - ALPA: News releases, local (1956) 24 - ALPA: Physical Standards Study (1955) 25 - ALPA: Pilot working conditions (1954) 26 - ALPA: Proposed by-laws and constitutional changes (1953) 27 - ALPA: Public relations (1956) 28 - ALPA: Realistic schedules (1956) 29 - ALPA: Strike manual 30 - ALPA: Strike policy, other crafts (1953) 31 - Airline Pilots1 Group (1959-1960) 32 - Air Line Stewards and Stewardesses Association (1951) 33-44 - Air safety (1955-1957) (12 folders) 45-51 - Air safety and engineering (1958-1960) (7 folders) Box 2 1-7 - Air safety and engineering (1961-1965) (7 folders) 8 - Baldwin and other grievance cases (1947-1950) 9 - Dave Brady Case (1949-1950) 10 - CIRVIS (1954) 11 - Civil Air Regulations (1949, 1953) 12 - Cockpit procedures (1953) 13 - Congress data (1950) 14 - H.B. Cox, minutes of the President's Special Board of Inquiry on Air Safety (1947) 15-18 - H.B. Cox, personal file (1948-1952) (4 folders) 19-21 - DC-6 (1947-1948) (3 folders) 22 - Feinsinger Supplemental Report (October 17, 1961) 23-24 - Farris Case, Alaska Airlines (1948-1949) (2 folders) 25 - FIDO correspondence (1953) 26 - Film catalogue (1949) 27 - Flight time limitations and on-duty time limitations (1953-1956) -4- Box 2 28 - German Pilots Association formation (1955) (cont.) 29-33 - Howard M. Jones, personal file (1953-1957) (5 folders) 34 - Los Angeles International Airport, facilities (1953) 35 - Los Angeles Office; rent, equipment, re-locations, etc. (1956-1957) 36 - MEC meeting minutes and miscellaneous, American Airlines (1953-1956) 37 - MEC meeting minutes and miscellaneous, Braniff (1953) 38 - MEC meeting minutes and miscellaneous, Capital Airlines (1953, 1957) 39 - MEC meeting minutes and miscellaneous, Continental Airlines (1957) 40 - MEC meeting minutes and miscellaneous, Delta-Chicago and Southern (1953) 41 - MEC meeting minutes and miscellaneous, Eastern Airlines (1953, 1957) 42 - MEC meeting minutes and miscellaneous, Flying Tiger Line (1953-1954) 43 - MEC meeting minutes and miscellaneous, Frontier Airlines (1953) 44 - MEC meeting minutes and miscellaneous, Northwest Airlines (1956-1957) 45 - MEC meeting minutes and miscellaneous, Pan-American Airlines (1953, 1956-1957) 46 - MEC meeting minutes and miscellaneous, Riddle Airlines (1957) 47 - MEC meeting minutes and miscellaneous, Trans World Airlines (1953, 1956-1957) 48 - MEC meeting minutes and miscellaneous, United Air Lines (1953, 1956-1957) 49 - MEC meeting minutes and miscellaneous, West Coast Airlines (1953) 50 - MEC meeting minutes and miscellaneous, Western Air Lines (1953, 1956-1957) 51 - MEC newsletters (1956-1957) 52 - Miscellaneous (1949-1951) 53 - Multi-employer bargaining (1961-1962) 54-55 - Negotiators' reports (1953-1957) (2 folders) 56 - Form NMB-2 (application for mediation service) 57 - National Customs Service Association (1953) 58 - Non-scheduled organization (1956) 59 - One council airlines, a list 60 - Personnel; vacations, sick leave, absences (1952-1954, 1956-1957) 61 - Pilot'course, test . 62 - Retirement plans (1952-1956) Box 3 1-3 - Route 68 Western-United arbitration case (1949) (3 folders) 4 - Schedules of negotiations (1955-1957) 5 - Seniority mergers (1950, 1952, 1954) 6 - Supplies (1953-1954) 7 - Turbo prop-jet (1957) -5- Box 3 8 - Vouchers, petty cash (1954-1957) (cont.) 9 - Weather Bureau report to all ALPA chairmen and officers (1950) 10 - Weekly reports to C.N. Sayen (1954-1957) Series II - Airlines Files Box 4 1 - Aaxico Airlines, Inc.: Agreements (1958, 1960) 2 - Aaxico Airlines, Inc.: Correspondence (1953-1958) 3 - Aaxico Airlines, Inc.: Letters of agreement (1958-1959) 4 - Aaxico Airlines, Inc.: Supplemental agreements (1958-1959) 5 - Aerovias Sud Americana, Inc.: Agreement (1963) 6 - Aerovias Sud Americana, Inc.: System Board of Adjust- ment (1963) 7 - Air America: Correspondence (1953) 8 - Airlift International, Inc.: Agreements (1964, 1965) 9 - Airlift International, Inc.: Letter of agreement (1965) 10 - Airlift International, Inc.: Memorandum of under- standing (1964) 11 - Airline Transport Carriers, Inc.: Agreement (1952-1954) 12 - Airline Transport Carriers, Inc.: Amendment (1952) 13 - Airline Transport Carriers, Inc.: Grievances (1954) 14 - Airline Transport Carriers, Inc.: Supplemental agree- ment (1952) 15 - Alaska Airlines, Inc.: Agreements (1953, 1958, 1960-1965) 16 - Alaska Airlines, Inc.: Amendments (1950, 1956, 1965) 17 - Alaska Airlines, Inc.: Bush pilots (1958-1959) 18 - Alaska Airlines, Inc.: Correspondence (1953-1962) 19 - Alaska Airlines, Inc.: Fixed Income Retirement Plan, Exhibits A and B (1968) 20 - Alaska Airlines, Inc.: Grievance, Metzger (1954) 21-22 - Alaska Airlines, Inc.: Grievances (1957-1958) 23 - Alaska Airlines, Inc.: Letters of agreement (1961-1963) 24 - Alaska Airlines, Inc.: Memorandum of agreement (1960) 25 - Alaska Airlines, Inc.: Retirement plan (1957) 26 - Alaska Airlines, Inc.: Retirement plan, correspondence (1958-1965) 27 - Alaska Airlines, Inc.: Scheduling policies (1961, 1963) 28 - Alaska Airlines, Inc.: Stewardesses negotiations (1953-1954) 29 - Alaska Airlines, Inc.: Supplemental agreements (1953, 1959, 1962) 30 - Alaska Airlines, Inc.: System Board of Adjustment (1947, 1957, 1962) 31 - Alaska Coastal-Ellis Airlines: Agreements (1963) 32 - Alaska Coastal-Ellis Airlines: Correspondence (1963-1969) 33 - Alaska Coastal-Ellis Airlines: Stipulation to arbitrate (1963) 34 - All American Airways, Inc.: Agreements (1950, 1952) -6- Box 4 35 - Allegheny Airlines, Inc.: Agreements (1954-1955, (cont.) 1961-1963) 36 - Allegheny Airlines, Inc.: Amendments (1953-1955, 1957) 37 - Allegheny Airlines, Inc.: Correspondence (1953-1968) 38 - Allegheny Airlines, Inc.: Letters of agreement (1960-1962, 1964) 39 - Allegheny Airlines, Inc.: Memorandum of agreement (1957) 40 - Allegheny Airlines, Inc.: Retirement plan outline (1958) 41 - Aloha Airlines, Inc.: Agreements (1961-1962, 1964) 42 - Aloha Airlines, Inc.: Amendment (1962) 43 - Aloha Airlines, Inc.: Correspondence (1958-1963) 44 - Aloha Airlines, Inc.: Letters of agreement (1960-1963)