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...Zakman approached one Sam Berger, then manager of an International Ladies Garment Workers Union local in New York, asked Berger to help him pick up a charter for a union. 'I had a family to support," said Zakman. "Here was a chance to organize a trade [i.e., cab drivers] that never had been organized in New York ... It would have been a good thing ... a nice living...
...reluctant admiration, "that did everything wrong, and organized better than the rest of them ... He would just walk into a shop and pull the switch and say, 'Everybody out on strike.' He didn't believe in elections. He was a hard worker." Predictably, the organization of cab drivers failed, Zakman was eased out of the union, and Johnny Dio finished up in the driver's seat, using the union for his own devices...
SKYWAY TRAFFIC JAM will be eased under new CAB plan to prevent armed forces from declaring vast areas of sky off-limits to any but military flights, thus crowding commercial planes into narrower lanes and causing costly flight delays. Board figures alloting more space for commercial flights will also create wider, safer buffer space between military and civilian areas...
...airlines challenge CAB's staff at every point. The profits of past years, they argue, have gone largely for new and increasingly expensive fleets of DC-75 and Constellations. As for this year's earnings, the lines charge that CAB arrives at its 20% return on investment by "incorrect" and "dangerous" accounting procedures, which take no account of the multimillion-dollar down payments toward new jet transports slated for future delivery. By eliminating these deposits, the CAB staff reduces every airline's investment base to the point where the investment return looks more favorable, even though overall...
...sure how CAB will rule on the 6% fare hike. One possibility is that it might grant a temporary increase pending the outcome of the long-range General Passenger Fare Investigation, which it is now conducting independent of the 6% request. Whatever happens, most airlines consider a 6% boost only an emergency lift. For the long haul they argue that at least a 10% increase is necessary to preserve the air fleet which the nation's security and economic well-being demands. The alternatives, say the airmen, are two: either the weakest airlines will fold and the middling ones...