Evening star., 1951-01-07
Moral Rearmament'
Aids Second Airline
Dispute, Session Told

are D6lnS resolved uIQer- principles
of moral rearmament, meeting
here was told last night.
Midway in the evening session
of the Moral Rearmament AS.
sembly at the Shoreham Hotel {
telegram from w. T. Babbitt. vict
president of the Air Line Pilot.
Association, announced that the
threatened strike against Nationa
Air Lines has been called off.
Through efforts based or
the theology and spirit of MIRA
the pending strike of NAL pilots
has been averted," the wire read
1--WE are now busily engaged in
the mechanics of cutting ropes
which have retarded NAL as well
as it's pilots, so that the two will
be free to 20 forward as a team
=. Until I get more information
shall refer to MIRA as wonder
drug that makes real human beings
out of people"
Verified BY Official.
Mr.. Babbitt sent the news from
Miami, where a company official
later verified that MIRA principles
are being followed. and expressed
belief that "all differences shortly
will be resolved"
This was the second time in the
last week that the assembly has
been told of impending settlement
of an airline labor dispute. Last
Wednesday, w. E. Patterson. pres
ident of United Air Lines, an
nounced that MIRA principles are
responsible for solution of most
of the company differences. with
the pilots union.
The. pilots at NAL had voted
last month to go on strike this
month over 80 grievances,
mostly involving contractual tech
nicalities. George T. Baker, NAL
president, and five directors OF
the airline attended an MIRA seS-
sion last week, along with three
representatives of the pilots as
sociation.
Session Hears German.
Among the speakers at yester-
days sessions was DR.. Herman
Katzenberger, secretary of the
West German Senate.
Declaring that half the men,
bers of the German cabinet are
firm believers" in MIRA, DR..
Katzenberger emphasized that
I'VE want to show our friends
from France not just in words,
but deeds, that we have many in
Germany who are supporting this
uniting ideology."
He emphasized that understand
ing between the two countries is
the best guarantee of European
security and world peace.
Robert Prigent, deputy in the
French National Assembly, de-
clared that new political struc-
lures will never be enough to
bring unity among men. The So
luton is not to expect the other
person to change, but to begin
together"
German Success Cited.
Moral Rearmament's success as
an theological foe of communism
in the Ruhr recently was con-
ceded by the Reds in an unusual
way, according to a German dele
gate to the conference.
Hans Quitting, director of the
Gelsenkirchen Coal Mining Co.,
largest in Germany, said the edi-
tor of a Communist newspaper in
the Duisberg-Moers area explained
the MIRA movement and prin-
ciples so well in a special article
that he was fired when several
party members developed an "un-
due" interest in it.
1t began when five Reds had
been expelled for flirting with
Moral Rearmament. Their names
were printed in the party paper
along with the editors explanation
of this tool of capitalism"-pre-
sumably SO other members would
be able to identify the MIRA phi
losophy when they encountered it.
The article said that Moral Re-
armament advocated return to
the standards of absolute honesty,
purity, unselhshness and love and
that it sought to bring peace and
harmony to individuals and ma
tions by changing human nature.
1t also told of MRA's call for the
ending of class warfare and the
embracing of true Christian mo-
rality.
After reading the story. several
other erstWhile faithful Commu-
nists became curious. These men
and the editor were purged from
Red ranks, according to Mr.. Dut-
ting, who indicated that the dem
ocratic peoples in the British
zone still are enjoying big
chuckle at the expense of the
embarrassed Kremlin stooges.
Mr.. Quitting is here with his
wife on their first visit to the
United States.