Kenneth E. Schultz Western Airlines Collection
Contents of the Collection
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.
Dates
- Creation: 1948-1989
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research and is accessible in the Dahlberg Research Center by appointment. For more information contact us.
Conditions Governing Use
The Museum of Flight (TMOF) Archives is the owner of the physical materials in the archives and makes available reproductions for research, publication, and other uses. Written permission must be obtained from TMOF archives before any publication use. TMOF does not necessarily hold copyright to all of the materials in the collections. In some cases, permission for use may require seeking additional authorization from copyright owners. Consult repository for more details.
Biographical Note: Kenneth E. Schultz
Kenneth E. Schultz was a Douglas DC-6B aircraft flight engineer for Western Airlines from the 1950s to 1960s.
Kenneth Edward Schultz was born on January 18, 1927, in Puyallup, Washington to George Herbert Schultz and Pearl A. Pratt. He attended Washington State University in the 1940s. Following college, he worked as a flight engineer for Western Airlines, from the 1950s to 1960s. In 1961, Shultz, along with 132 flight engineers working for WAL, were discharged after going on strike against the company.
Schultz passed away on September 21, 2010, in Puyallup.
Biographical note derived from derived from collection materials and records on Ancestry.com.
Extent
.5 Cubic Feet (1 full-width legal size document box, 1 oversize folder (16x20"))
Language
English
Overview
Kenneth E. Schultz was a Douglas DC-6B aircraft flight engineer for Western Airlines from the 1950s to 1960s. This small collection is comprised of materials related to the Western Airlines Chapter of Flight Engineers’ International Association and Shultz’s labor disputes with Western Airlines while he was employed with the company as a flight engineer.
Separated Materials
The following materials have been separated from the archival component of this collection and are kept in the Library:
- Agreement between Western Airlines, Inc. and the Flight Engineers in the Service of Western Airlines, Inc. as represented by Flight Engineers' International Assocation WES chapter AFL-CIO, effective April 11, 1958.
- Flight Engineers' International Assocation AFL-CIO Constitution and By-Laws as amended November 19, 1964.
- Flight Engineers' International Assocation AFL-CIO Constitution and By-Laws as amended October 24, 1963"
- Flight Engineers' International Assocation AFL-CIO newsletters
The following items have been separated from the archival component of this collection and are kept in Objects storage:
- Western Airlines pen
- Western Airlines name badge
- Western Airlines hydrochloride tablet
- matchbook collection
- navigational computer
Please contact us for more details.
Processing Information
This collection has been fully processed.
Subject
- Flight Engineers' International Association (Organization)
- Goldberg, Arthur J., 1908-1990 (Person)
- Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 (Person)
- Los Angeles International Airport (Organization)
- Schultz, Ken (Kenneth E.) (Person)
- Western Airlines (Organization)
Genre / Form
- correspondence
- crew lists
- financial statements
- lithographs
- memorandums
- payroll records
- photographic prints
- postcards
- posters
- printed ephemera
- receipts (financial records)
Geographic
Topical
- Title
- Guide to the Kenneth E. Schultz Western Airlines Collection
- Status
- Completed Level 2
- Author
- Charise Dinges
- Date
- 2023 September
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English
- Edition statement
- 1st edition
Repository Details
Part of the The Museum of Flight Archives Repository
9404 East Marginal Way South
Seattle Washington 98108-4097
206-764-7874
curator@museumofflight.org