Pickets paraded around the Chicago headquarters of the A.F.L.-C.I.O Air Line Pilots Association last week carrying placards: "Thanks for the Merry Christmas, A.L.P.A." "You've Got $28,000 Now. What More Do You Want?" "A.L.P.A., the Company-Busting Union." The pickets were American Airlines reservations agents protesting the strike by 1,500 pilots of American, the nation's biggest line and the sixth one immobilized by labor strife in 1958.
American's clerks, who will be laid off unless the dispute is settled by Jan. 4, were not the only ones angry because the line was grounded. Letters of...
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