Executive Order 11486—Creating an Emergency Board to Investigate Disputes Between the Carriers Represented by the National Railway Labor Conference and Certain of Their Employees

WHEREAS disputes exist between the carriers represented by the National Railway Labor Conference, designated in List A attached hereto and made a part hereof, and certain of their employees represented by the Employees' Conference Committee composed of labor organizations designated in List B attached hereto and made a part hereof; 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 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 the 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 board has made its report to the President, no change, except by agreement, shall be made by the carriers represented by the National Railway Labor Conference, or by their employees, in the conditions out of which the disputes arose.

Richard Nixon

THE WHITE HOUSE,

October 3, 1969.

LIST A

EASTERN RAILROADS

Akron, Canton & Youngstown Railroad Company

Ann Arbor Railroad

Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company

Baltimore and Ohio Chicago Terminal Railroad Company

Bangor and Aroostook Railroad

Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad Company

Boston and Maine Corporation

Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal

Buffalo Creek Railroad

Canadian National Railways--

Great Lakes Region--Lines in the United States

St. Lawrence Region--Lines in the United States

Canadian Pacific Railway

Central Railroad Company of New Jersey

Central Vermont Railway, Inc.

Chicago River & Indiana Railroad

Chicago South Shore and South Bend Railroad

Chicago Union Station Company

Cincinnati Union Terminal Company

Cleveland Union Terminals Company

Delaware and Hudson Railway Company

Detroit and Toledo Shore Line Railroad Company

Detroit Terminal Railroad Company

Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railroad

Erie Lackawanna Railway

Grand Trunk Western Railroad

Indianapolis Union Railway Company

Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad

Lehigh & Hudson River Railway Company

Lehigh and New England Railway Company

Lehigh Valley Railroad

Maine Central Railroad Company

Portland Terminal Company

Monongahela Railway

Monon Railroad

Montour Railroad

Newburgh and South Shore Railway Company

New York and Long Branch Railroad Company

New York Dock Railway

New York, Susquehanna and Western Railroad

Norfolk and Western Railway

Penn Central Company

Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines

Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad, including

Lake Erie and Eastern Railroad

Reading Company

Philadelphia, Reading and Pottsville Telegraph Company

River Terminal Railway

Toledo Terminal Railroad Company

Washington Terminal Company

Western Maryland Railway Company

WESTERN RAILROADS

Alton & Southern Railway

Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company

Belt Railway Company of Chicago

Butte, Anaconda & Pacific Railway

Camas Prairie Railroad

Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad

Chicago & Illinois Midland Railway Company

Chicago and North Western Railway Company

Chicago & Western Indiana Railroad Company

Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad

Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad

Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad Company

Chicago, West Pullman & Southern Railroad Company

Colorado and Southern Railway

Colorado & Wyoming Railway

Davenport, Rock Island and North Western Railway Company

Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company

Des Moines Union Railway

Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway

Duluth Union Depot & Transfer Company

Duluth, Winnipeg & Pacific Railway Company

Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway Company

Fort Worth and Denver Railway Company

Galveston, Houston and Henderson Railroad Company

Great Northern Railway

Green Bay & Western Railroad

Houston Belt & Terminal Railway Company

Illinois Central Railroad (including the Chicago and Illinois Western and Paducah and Illinois Railroads)

Illinois Northern Railway

Illinois Terminal Railroad

Joint Texas Division of CRI&P-FW&D Railway

Kansas City Southern Railway Company

Kansas City Terminal Railway Company

Lake Superior Terminal & Transfer Railway

Los Angeles Junction Railway Company

Louisiana & Arkansas Railway Company

Manufacturers Railway

Minneapolis, Northfield and Southern Railway

Minnesota Transfer Railway

Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Company

Missouri Pacific Railroad (Including Gulf District) Missouri-Illinois Railroad

Norfolk and Western Railway Company

Northern Pacific Railway

Northwestern Pacific Railroad Company

Peoria and Pekin Union Railway Company

Portland Terminal Railroad Company

Port Terminal Railroad Association

St. Louis-San Francisco Railway

St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company

Saint Paul Union Depot Company

San Diego and Arizona Eastern Railway Company

Sioux City Terminal Railway Company

Soo Line Railroad

Southern Pacific Company (Pacific Lines and Texas and Louisiana Lines)

South Omaha Terminal Railway Company

Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway Company (System Lines)

Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis

Texas & Pacific Railway

Fort Worth Belt Railway

Kansas, Oklahoma & Gulf Railway

Weatherford, Mineral Wells & Northwestern Railway

Texas Mexican Railway Company

Texas Pacific-Missouri Pacific Terminal Railroad of New Orleans

Toledo, Peoria & Western Railroad

Union Pacific Railroad Company

Union Terminal Company (Dallas)

Western Pacific Railroad Company

Yakima Valley Transportation Company

SOUTHEASTERN RAILROADS

Atlanta and West Point Rail Road Company,--

The Western Railway of Alabama

Atlanta Joint Terminals

Central of Georgia Railway Company

Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company

Clinchfield Railroad Company

Georgia Railroad

Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad

Jacksonville Terminal Company

Kentucky & Indiana Terminal Railroad

Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company

New Orleans Public Belt Railroad

Norfolk and Portsmouth Belt Line Railroad

Norfolk and Western Railway Company

Norfolk Southern Railway

Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad Company

(Including Potomac Yard)

Seaboard Coast Line Railroad

Southern Railway Company

The Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railway Company

The Alabama Great Southern Railroad Company

New Orleans and Northeastern Railroad Company

The New Orleans Terminal Company

Georgia Southern and Florida Railway Company

St. Johns River Terminal Company

Harriman and Northeastern Railroad Company

LIST B

International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers

Sheet Metal Workers' International Association

International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers

International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron Ship Builders, Blacksmiths, Forgers and Helpers