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Chairman's July Report

Work is an expression of human dignity. Whenever workers are not given a voice and role, in the efficient running and development of an enterprise, a basic human need and right is violated.

That statement normaly applies to the corporate world, but it can apply to the MRO world also.  What the statement is saying, people by thier very nature, have a need to express themselves in thier work to perfect thier own being. In any and all organizations every effort must be made to ensure that the enterprise (in this case the MMA), is

indeed a true human community, concerned about the needs, the activities and the standing of each of its members. This demands in the case of the MMA, that the relations between officers at state and disrtrict levels and the general membership reflect an understanding, appreciation and goodwill on both sides. It demands, too, that all parties cooperate actively and loyally in the common enterprise. Not so much for what they can get out of it for themselves, but as rendering a service to their fellow members and the organization.

All of the above implies that everyone has a say in, and is able make a contribution to, the efficient running and development of the MMA. Every organization has collateral and secondary objectives, but these objectives must be subordinated to our primary objective. This principle is of far-reaching significance and provides the correct solution to many problems.

From this it follows that you and I must do what is best for our organization if we are to remain a part of the organization. We must do this voluntarily and whole-heartedly if we are to succeed and prosper in the organization. If we lived in a totalitarian country, we would be absolutely forced to do this in order to just survive. The essence of a democratic socio-economic order is that the individual has a choice of organizations to which he may belong to — in other words, a socio-economic climate accommodating many organizations under many leaders.

We in the United States have a choice. In some countries, there is but one organization: the state. The same organization controls everything. There is no private property—only public property. Hence, the state absolutely controls the means to live and the means of happiness. Even in wartime, such a condition does not exist in a democracy. The same principles apply in every organization, be it in the United States, Soviet Russia or in the MMA.

The principle that the individual must do what is best for the organization applies equally in all three organizations. However, you and I don’t have to remain a part of our organization. We can get out today, now. We can even get out of the larger organization— the United States of America. But in Russia you couldn't change jobs, organizations or even get out of the country except by political or physical force.

My point here, summed up, is simply this: You and I don’t have to belong to our organization, but so long as we remain a member of the organization we must do what is best for our organization. The comprehension of this principle is essential.

In general most people will support what they help to create. But for people to be encouraged to carry out their duties with all the devotion and loyalty of which they are capable, they must be treated with kindness and justice. Equity excludes neither forcefulness nor sternness, but its application requires good sense, experience and good nature.

Each member of the organization must realize that he or she is not only responsible for his own activities but that he is also responsible for the whole. Each has a joint responsibility for the accomplishment of the organization’s objectives and the obligation can only be met jointly.

All of this is done by people, therefore, we must realize that no person is physically, mentally or morally identical with any other person, that people are individuals and that they are most productive when doing what they want to do in the way they want to do it. The conflict between individual desire and group effectiveness is always present. We must continuously strive to achieve that effectiveness while maintaining individualality and freedom.

Unity is strength and much effort should be made to establish this. Dividing the forces of the enemy is clever, but dividing one’s own is suicide. There is no merit in sowing dissension.

The morale of the story is - Treat others as you would have them treat you and be respectful when dealing with others we are all volenteers.

Tom Corr
MMA - State Chairman
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