Executive Order 9663—Creating An Emergency Board to Investigate a Dispute Between the Texas & New Orleans Railway Company and Hospital Association of the Southern Pacific Lines in Texas and Lousiana, and Certain of Its Employees

WHEREAS a dispute exists between the Texas & New Orleans Railway Company and Hospital Association of the Southern Pacific Lines in Texas and Louisiana, a carrier, and certain of its employees represented by the

Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers

Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen

Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen

The Order of Railroad Telegraphers

Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers, Express and Station Employees

Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees

Brotherhood Railway Carmen of America

International Association of Machinists

International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron Ship Builders and Helpers of America

Sheet Metal Workers International Association

International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers

International Brotherhood of Firemen and Oilers, Helpers, Roundhouse and Railway Shop Laborers, and

Brotherhood of Railway Signalmen of America,

labor organizations; and

WHEREAS, this dispute, in the judgment of the National Mediation Board, threatens substantially to interrupt interstate commerce within the states of Texas and Louisiana to a degree such as to deprive that portion 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 said dispute. No member of the said board shall be pecuniarily or otherwise interested in any organization of railway employees or any carrier.

The board shall report its findings to the President with respect to the said dispute 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 Texas & New Orleans Railway Company and Hospital Association of the Southern Pacific Lines in Texas and Louisiana or their employees in the conditions out of which the said dispute arose.

HARRY S. TRUMAN

THE WHITE HOUSE,

November 30, 1945