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Executive Order 10045—Creating an Emergency Board to Investigate a Dispute Between the Wabash Railroad Company and the Ann Arbor Railroad Company and Certain of Their Employees

March 15, 1949

WHEREAS a dispute exists between the Wabash Railroad Company and the Ann Arbor Railroad Company, carriers, and certain of their employees represented by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, Order of Railway Conductors, and the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, labor organizations; and

WHEREAS this dispute has not heretofore been adjusted under the provisions of the Railway Labor Act, as amended; and

WHEREAS this dispute, in the judgment of the National Mediation Board threatens substantially to interrupt interstate commerce to a degree such as to deprive the country of essential transportation service:

NOW, THEREFORE, by virtue of 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 the said dispute. No member of the said board shall be pecuniarily or otherwise interested in any organization of 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 Wabash Railroad Company and the Ann Arbor Railroad Company, or their employees in the conditions out of which the said dispute arose.

HARRY S. TRUMAN

THE WHITE HOUSE,

March 15, 1949

Harry S Truman, Executive Order 10045—Creating an Emergency Board to Investigate a Dispute Between the Wabash Railroad Company and the Ann Arbor Railroad Company and Certain of Their Employees Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/278676

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