The Kenneth E. Schultz Western Airlines Collection is a small collection comprised textual and visual materials related to Schultz’ labor disputes with Western Airlines (WAL) while he was employed with the company as a Douglas DC-6B aircraft flight engineer from the 1950s to 1960s. The documents provide insight into the efforts of the Western Airlines Chapter of Flight Engineers’ International Association to receive compensation for the 132 flight engineers who were discharged in 1961 after going on strike against WAL. Schultz was included in the flight engineers that were let go.

The collection consists of Schultz's Douglas DC-6B training materials and notes, correspondence and memorandums from the WAL flight engineer chapter and lawyers overseeing their case. There are Shultz’s employee earning statements, flight schedule, termination letter, as well as information regarding loss of license and insurance proceeding the strike. In addition, the collection includes Schultz’s travel ephemera and lithographs that he collected while working for WAL.

In addition to the textual materials, the collection includes 21 predominatly 8x10” black-and-white photographic prints that depict the picketing lines during the strike, two photographs of Schultz in uniform, a Douglas DC-6B aircraft, WAL crew loading packages onto planes, a group portrait of a crew, unidentified people disembarking a plane, and an unidentified plane crash.