Executive Order 11444—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 Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, a labor organization; 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 the 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.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
The White House
January 13, 1969
LIST A
EASTERN RAILROADS
Akron, Canton & Youngstown Railroad Baltimore and Eastern Railroad
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company (including former BR&P territory and Toledo Division Engineers)
Baltimore and Ohio Chicago Terminal Railroad Company
Boston and Maine Corporation
Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal
Central Railroad Company of New Jersey Central Vermont Railway, Inc.
Chicago River & Indiana Railroad
Cleveland Union Terminals Company
Delaware and Hudson Railroad Corporation
Detroit Terminal Railroad
Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railroad
Erie Lackawanna Railroad Company
Grand Trunk Western Railroad
Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad
Indianapolis Union Railway Company
Lehigh Valley Railroad
Monongahela Railway
Monon Railroad
New York Dock Railway
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
New York, Susquehanna and Western Railroad
Norfolk and Western Railway Company (Lines of former New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad Company and lines of former Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railway Company)
Penn Central Company
Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines
Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad (Including Lake Erie and Eastern Railroad)
Pittsburgh, Chartiers & Youghiogheny Railway
Reading Company
Staten Island Rapid Transit Railway Company
Toledo Terminal Railroad Company
Youngstown and Southern Railway
WESTERN RAILROADS
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company
Belt Railway Company of Chicago
Camas Prairie Railroad
Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad
Chicago and North Western Railway Company
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad
Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad Company
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company
Colorado and Southern Railway Company
Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company
Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway Company
Fort Worth and Denver Railway Company
Great Northern Railway Company
Illinois Central Railroad Company
Joint Texas Division of CRI&P–FW&D
Kansas City Southern Railway Company
King Street Passenger Station
Louisiana & Arkansas Railway Company
Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Company
Missouri Pacific Railroad Company
Missouri Pacific Railroad Company (Gulf District)
Minnesota Transfer Railway Company
New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal
Norfolk and Western Railway (Lines formerly operated by Wabash Railroad Company)
Northern Pacific Railway
Northwestern Pacific Railroad Company
Ogden Union Railway and Depot Company
Oregon, California & Eastern Railway Company
Portland Terminal Railroad Company
St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Company (Except NEO District)
St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company
San Diego & Arizona Eastern Railway Company
Soo Line Railroad
South Omaha Terminal Railway Company
Southern Pacific Company
Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway Company (System Lines)
Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis
Texas and Pacific Railway Company
Abilene and Southern Railway Company
Kansas, Oklahoma & Gulf Railway Company
Texas-New Mexico Railway Company
Texas Pacific-Missouri Pacific Terminal Railroad of New Orleans
Weatherford, Mineral Wells and Northwestern Railway Company
Texas Mexican Railway Company
Union Pacific Railroad
Warren and Ouachita Valley Railway Company
Western Pacific Railroad Company
NOTES:1—Includes notice dated March 1, 1968, served by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers on the carrier of desire to revise the current rates of pay for locomotive engineers applicable to miles in excess of 100 to the extent that the rates presently applicable to those miles constituting a basic day will also be applied to all miles in excess of 100.
2—Includes Former El Paso and Southwestern System Engineers; Texas and Louisiana Lines Engineers; Former Pacific Electric Engineers and Firemen; Nogales, Arizona, Yard Engineers.
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
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
Norfolk and Portsmouth Belt Line Railroad
Norfolk and Western Railway Company (Atlantic and Pocahontas Region)
Norfolk Southern Railway Company
Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad Company
Seaboard Coast Line Railroad
Southern Railway Company
Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific Railway Company
Harriman and Northeastern Railroad Company
Alabama Great Southern Railroad Company
New Orleans & Northeastern Railroad Company
New Orleans Terminal Company
St. Johns River Terminal Company
Terminal Railway Alabama State Docks
NOTE: Executive Order 11444 was not made public in the form of a White House press release.
Lyndon B. Johnson, Executive Order 11444—Creating an Emergency Board to Investigate Disputes Between the Carriers Represented by the National Railway Labor Conference and Certain of Their Employees Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/305909