Clipper, Vol. 8, No. 7, June 15, 1951

              “Moral Re-Armament is the ordinary man’s opportunity to remake the world.”
—Dr. Frank Buchman
Pan American World Airways LATIN AMERICAN DIVISION
“Where everybody cares enough, and everybody shares enough, everybody has enough.”—MRA slogan
VOL. 8 —No. 7
JUNE 15, 1951
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120 From LAD Attend MRA Assembly
32 Countries Send Delegates to Parley At Mackinac Island
,A dramatic indoctrination in an ideology which has been credited with erasing personal, industrial, racial and political tensions around the world—and which has been hailed as the force that may head off a third world war —was given 107 LADers and 13 of their wives this month.
Comprising the largest single
A MODEL “STRATO” CLIPPER, christened “Clipper MRA,” is presented to Dr. Frank N. D. Buchman, founder of Moral Re-Armament, by Humphrey W. Toomey, LAD manager, on behalf of Miami-based PAAers attending the MRA assembly. Looking on, from left to right, are Edward F. Ensey, stock clerk; Joe Linares, purser; Howard W. Page, master mechanic; Joseph T. Carlton, mechanic, first class; Robert R. McNally, mechanic, first class; Theodore R. Powers, mechanic, first class; Edwin Drescher, division accountant; William S. Saltz, stores superintendent, and Rahland C. Zinn, aircraft service superintendent.
LADers Tell of MRA’s Achievements in Miami
LAD representatives of both management and labor trooped to the platform of the Grand Hotel auditorium to tell Moral Re-Armament assembly delegates from 32 countries around the world how application of the principles of MRA had changed their personal lives and created a new harmony in their relations with fellow
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Heading the parade was Thomas D. Stuart, labor relations representative, who drew a standing ovation from the assembly after he had related in a humor-spiced 30-minute talk how MRA had led him to “quit trying to be a big shot.”
“You’ve heard about the successes MRA chalked up in Miami,” Stuart pointed out. “You haven’t heard about the obstacles. You’re looking at one of those obstacles.”
Stuart sketched in detail his own skepticism about MRA when it invaded Miami and his reluctance to take it seriously.
“I thought it was just a lot of people hitting the sawdust trail,” he said. “I was a cynic. I said: ‘Where’s the gimmick? What are they after? Where does the money go?’
“It was impossible for me to believe that these people were dedicating their lives to helping the world. My philosophy was that anything a person does is done with selfish intentions. But one thing they said got into me — that improvement starts with yourself.”
After attending the two MRA plays, Stuart recalled, he told an associate:
“They had the best lighting technician I’ve ever seen. He made the people’s faces glow and their eyes shine like they were happy.”
Later he met members of the cast off stage. And, he reported, “they had the same light in their eyes and the same beaming faces —and there was no lighting technician around.”
Even after that, however, he
he attend the Mackinac assembly.
“But I decided it would be cool up here,” he explained. “The folks in the office said they’d better send me up for the whole two weeks. One week wouldn’t do me any good, they thought.”
During the assembly, he related, he received his first “guidance.” “I was directed to tell of my experiences and I was told to quit trying to be a big shot,” he said. “Don’t think that’s easy to say. And it’s going to be harder to do. But I think it’s going to be damned effective.
“Nothing was bigger than me yesterday. Today I am mighty small and mighty humble. And I don’t know when I have been happier.”
Ernest M. Mitchell, mechanic,
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MOB Output Reported Up
Morale at PAA’s Miami Overhaul Base is the highest of any time in the past five years and the productivity of some crews has increased as much as 25 per cent as a result of a new spirit of cooperation planted by the Moral Re-Armament task force during its stay in Miami, John J. Tigert, component overhaul superintendent, told the MRA assembly at Mackinac Island.
“Increasing bitterness and resentment had been developing between company supervisors and mechanical employes,” Tigert reported. “Today an entirely different situation prevails.
“There is a new spirit of cooperation between worker and worker and between worker and supervisor. The company has gained an asset it has long been without: the loyalty and goodwill of its employes.” „
A few weeks ago, Tigert recalled, a shop steward in engine overhaul “was offering to settle arguments with his fists in the parking lot. Today grievances are settled on the spot and the parking lot is used only for parking cars.”
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Toomey Cites Importance Of Teamwork
Any management which does not foster the kind of teamwork that is possible through Moral Re-Armament is obsolete and unenlightened, Humphrey W. Toomey, LAD manager, told the MRA assembly.
“In Miami we had an upsurge in morale and production which provides us with all the factual evidence necessary to convince any board of directors,” he said.
“It will be my job — a job I don’t think is going to be too hard, judging from the enthusiasm expressed here by the Miami group and the union leaders -— to keep up that production and that spirit.”
Most business executives realize that the great majority of workers are “sound, constructive, responsible people who want to do what is right,” Toomey asserted.
“I feel that management must create the environment in which responsible, constructive and moral labor leadership can function freely,” he said, “I will dedicate myself to fostering such an environment.
“Any labor leadership which is founded on sound moral precepts cannot fail to receive the respect of management and of the public generally.”
The increased production that can result from MRA-inspired teamwork “is desperately needed to bring freedom from want for billions of people in the world,” Toomey pointed out.
“If those of us in enterprise can do that — can bring about that production — then we are in great measure meeting the
deftiands of humanity in the world today.”
Identifying himself as “one of Continued on Page 2____________
MRA Praised by LAD Delegates
After six days ofr attending the Moral Re-Armament assembly at Mackinac Island, how do LADers feel about MRA and the program for which it is fighting?
Here are typical comments:
RICHARD C. M0RRISEY, JR., pilot: Past experiences have been greatly obscured by the brilliance of a new and rich experience. The MRA assembly is without doubt the brightest light shining today in a troubled world. Here we see a real two-fisted ideology that can set the world straight and put an end to world wars.
DEAN R. GRIFFITH, JR., master mechanic: The world will be a greater, a happier and a more loving place in which to live with the spread of the atmosphere of Mackinac.
FREDERICK FISCHER, radio mechanic: I believe that MRA has done something for me that will multiply as the years go by. It has also shown me the way in which I can do a small part to help make a better country and world — and, most important of all, change myself to a better person.
RUDOLPH M. LUND, station
manager, Miami: The ideas of MRA should be a spearhead for solving all problems of labor and management.
HECTOR CRUZ, station traffic manager, Miami: At Mackinac I met and discussed world conditions with leading international labor and industrial figures and found the answer to settlement of world difficulties through the principles of MRA.
FRANK GARRISON, senior accountant: MRA is the answer to the world’s need for a more peaceful life.
EDWARD A. CRESAP, pro-Continued on Page 3
delegation present, the Miami group was flown to Mackinac Island, Michigan, on three special Clipper flights to attend the World Assembly for the Moral Re-Armament of the Nations June 1-12.
A total of 1,683 delegates from 32 countries traveled to the famed summer resort to hear reports on MRA’s accomplishments by high government officials, outstanding industrialists, labor leaders, multi-star military commanders and factory, dock and mine workers from every part of the globe.
Every stratum of society, every major religion, every shade of skin and every political complexion were represented at the unique assembly at the Grand Hotel* largest summer hotel in the world.
LADers took full advantage of mealtimes and periods between the two daily plenary sessions to chat informally with the other delegates and acquire a composite picture of conditions on all six continents.
Over breakfast eggs or dinner steaks, in the hotel’s spacious lobby and verandah, on carriage rides around the picturesque, historical island they had an opportunity to swap experiences with members of Congress and of a dozen other lawmaking bodies; with former dyed-in-the-wool Communists from the docks of London and the slums of Paris; with generals and admirals whose exploits made the headlines on both sides in World War II; with a survivor of the atom bomb blast on Hiroshima; with the postmaster of India, an Italian count, a shaven-headed Buddist monk from Burma, the next in line of succession to the white rajah of Sarawak and a Japanese viscountess whose father presented the cherry trees that line Washington’s tidal basin.
Just as the delegates from abroad represented a cross-section of the world, the LAD group represented a cross-section of the PAA family in Miami. There were department heads and porters, pilots and stock clerks, accountants and mechanics and officials of the four major unions in LAD — the Continued on Page 3
Recordings Made Of Key Addresses
LADers unable to attend the Moral Re-Armament assembly at Mackinac Island can “sit in” on the sessions without leaving Miami.
Approximately 15 hours of wire recordings of the major addresses were made by Miami Station Manager Rudolph M. Lund and Personnel Superintendent Edwin B. Weis-singer.
The recordings are being made available to interested LAD groups through the industrial relations department. “Copies” are also being made for PAA’s Pacific-Alaska Division.