AIR PILOTS' DISPUTE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22864, 20 October 1937, Page 15

AIR PILOTS' DISPUTE

REGENT DISMISSALS MEN'S NEW ASSOCIATION * I LONDON, Oct. 10 Strike action was vetoed at last night's meeting of the Air Line Pilots' Association, when the recent dismissal of 10 pilots by . Imperial Airways was discussed. It was decided to approach Imperial Airways and seek to. settle the situation in a spirit of co-operation and amity. Evidence was given at the meeting in support of the contention that the pilots had been dismissed after having become executive officers of the Air Line Pilots' Association. Two of the men dismissed were the veteran Captains Walter Rogers and Lane-Burslem. Both had been instrumental in forming the Air Line Pilots' Association. Imperial Airways' reply to the association's proposals 'will be discussedat a meeting to be held in a few days. Captain Rogers was one of the Imperial Airways' best-known pilots. He had been with the company since its inception in 1924, and before that was a pilot with the Handley Page Transport Company. - X During the war he served with the Royal Flying Corps, and later with the Royal Air Force. He joined the Handley Page when he was demobilised in 1920. He was one of the eight Imperial Airways pilots with more than 1,000,00 miles of commercial flying to his credit.