Executive Order 10150—Creating an Emergency Board to Investigate Disputes Between the Atlantic & East Carolina Railway Company and Other Carriers, and Certain of Their Employees

WHEREAS disputes exist between the Atlantic & East Carolina Railway Company and certain other carriers designated in list A attached hereto and made a part hereof, and certain of their employees represented by the sixteen cooperating non-operating 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 the said disputes.

Each of the carriers involved shall be given independent consideration in such investigation, and the said labor organizations shall be permitted to function as a unit in proceedings before the board.

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 disputes within thirty days from the date of this order. The board may, to the extent it deems necessary or desirable, make separate and independent findings with respect to each of the carriers involved.

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 any of the carriers involved or their employees in the conditions out of which the said disputes arose.

LIST "A"

Atlantic & East Carolina Railway Company

Barre & Chelsea Railroad Company

Belfast & Moosehead Lake Railroad Company

Chicago, Aurora and Elgin Railway Company

Chicago, South Shore & South Bend Railroad

Columbus & Greenville Railway Company

Cooper Range Railroad

Denver Union Stockyards Company

Des Moines & Central Iowa Railway Company

El Paso Union Passenger Depot Company

Escanaba & Lake Superior Railroad Company

Galveston Wharves

Huntington & Broad Top Mountain Railroad and Coal Company

Lancaster & Chester Railway Company

Meridian & Bigbee River Railway Company

New Orleans & Lower Coast R.R. Company

Ogden Union Stockyards Company

Old Point Comfort Joint Agency

Rio Grande Southern Railroad

St. Johnsbury & LaMoille County Railroad

Salt Lake Union Stockyards Company

Sioux City Terminal Railway Company

Stockyards District Agency of Chicago

Tennessee Railroad Company

Texas Pacific, Missouri Pacific Terminal Company of New Orleans

Winona Railroad Company

LIST "B"

International Association of Machinists

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

International Brotherhood of Blacksmiths, Drop Forgers and Helpers

Sheet Metal Workers' International association

International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers

Brotherhood of Railway Carmen of America

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

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

Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes

The Order of Railroad Telegraphers

Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen of America

National Organization of Master, Mates & Pilots of America

National Marine Engineers' Beneficial Association

International Longshoremen's Association

Hotel and Restaurant Employees' International Alliance and Bartenders' Int. League of America

Railroad Yardmasters of America

HARRY S. TRUMAN

THE WHITE HOUSE,

August 11, 1950