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Executive Order 11050—Creating an Emergency Board to Investigate Disputes Between the REA Express and Certain of its Employees

September 14, 1962

WHEREAS disputes exist between the REA Express, a carrier, and certain of its employees represented by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen and Helpers of America; and

WHEREAS these disputes have not heretofore been adjusted under the provisions of the Railway Labor Act, as amended; and

WHEREAS these disputes, in the judgment of the National Mediation Board, threaten substantially to interrupt interstate commerce to a degree such as to deprive a section of the country of essential transportation service:

NOW, THEREFORE, by virtue of the authority vested in me by section 10 of the Railway Labor Act, as amended (45 U.S.C. 160), I hereby create a board of three members to be appointed by me, to investigate these disputes. No member of the board shall be pecuniarily or otherwise interested in any organization of railroad employees or any carrier.

The board shall report its findings to the President with respect to these disputes within thirty days from the date of this order.

As provided by section 10 of the Railway Labor Act, as amended, from this date and for thirty days after the board has made its report to the President, no change, except by agreement, shall be made by the carrier, or by its employees, in the conditions out of which these disputes arose.

JOHN F. KENNEDY

THE WHITE HOUSE,

September 14, 1962

John F. Kennedy, Executive Order 11050—Creating an Emergency Board to Investigate Disputes Between the REA Express and Certain of its Employees Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/235995

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