PILOTS DOWN TOOLS
AIR SERVICE HELD UP IN NETHERLANDS VAN DYK DISMISSED Reed. 11.50 a.m. AMSTERDAM, Friday The dismissal of Evert Van Dyk, who was Kingsford Smith’s second trans-Atlantic pilot, caused a strike among the pilots on th& Duitch Airlines. All services are held up, and no machines left Amsterdam or Rotterdam today. All airplanes abroad return today. Van Dyk refused to. accept conditions similar to those imposed on flights to Java for the Dutch flight to India in September.* Later. Van Dyk led the protest against the rates and wages allotted to the India air service, the inception of which had been postponed, and pilots dismissed.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1064, 30 August 1930, Page 9
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