Posed for Florante Caedo, the young sculptor, from 10:00-12:00, for a bust from the life mask he made of me last Friday night. Imelda will be next. I will pose for him again Tuesday night.
Imelda visited Nini [Zenaida Quezon-Avanceña] this afternoon with Dr. Estefania Aldaba Lim to make amends for the hurt that Hartzell Spence book [Marcos of the Philippines: A Biography] on me. And she brought my letter of regrets. For the book had made it appear as if Pres. [Manuel] Quezon had persecuted me when the truth was that the subalterns, Maj. Guado of the NBI [National Bureau of Investigation], then Fiscal Macadaeg, the Valle brothers of Tarlac, had done the falsification of the evidence specially the testimony of Calixto Aguinaldo from sheer bureaucratic overzealousness. Pres. Quezon had merely ordered justice to be meted out to the guilty party as I do now as President.
I believe I have prevented a PAL [Philippine Air Lines] strike after I got CAB [Civil Aeronautics Board] to increase the domestic rates and PAL increase the wages although this is not apparently acceptable to the unions.
Am working on the inclusion of administration press stories in the news throw-in sheet of the magazines specially the Liwayway Publications.
Am still obsessed about a good publishing house.
Official Gazette for August 16, 1970: President Marcos took a breather from his weekend session with state papers to receive in the afternoon the officers of the Philippine Air Lines Supervisors Association (PALSA) who had planned to stage a strike. He asked the PALSA not to pursue its projected strike because of the adverse effects it will have on the public and the economy. The President, instead, asked Cesar Legayada, PALSA president, to submit data to support the union’s claim that the airline will not suffer losses if it granted their demands for a pay increase of 28 percent.
The PALSA scheduled a strike after PAL management rejected their demands for a pay increase, an additional half-month retirement pay, and a counter-offer on the demand for job evaluation review for 15C personnel on the supervisory level. Legayada said that their demands had been submitted to the Bureau of Labor Relations for conciliation but that the talks had bogged down. The delegation was accompanied to Malacañangby Secretary of Labor Blas F. Ople, and included Casiano Laquihon, legal counsel; Leonardo Agting, president of the Federation of Unions of Rizal; and Gaudioso Pomento and Rodante Maala of the same federation.