I'm sorry, Lawrie, but if you want to be taken seriously , revisionist, rose-tinten nonsense will not help your credability.
You firstly deny compulsory unionism existed. Now you try and say it was the Employers idea!!
Like many industries in that era, the Airlines had compulsory unionism because the unions imposed it through industrial muscle.
If the airlines had tried to change that at any time whilst the AFAP was representing the pilots (up until the time it became illegal), it would have resulted in aggressive industrial action.
I'm not passing judgment on the policy. It was common enough in that era.
But lets not go re-writting history, OK?