Executive Order 9793—Creating An Emergency Board to Investigate Disputes Between the Atlanta & St. Andrews Bay Railway Company and Other Carriers, and Certain of Their Employees

WHEREAS disputes exist between The Atlanta & St. Andrews Bay Railway Company and certain other carriers designated in list A attached hereto and make a part hereof, and certain of their employees represented by the fifteen cooperating railway 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 report of the board shall contain 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

Atlanta & St. Andrews Bay Railway Company

Atlantic & East Carolina Railway Company

Barre & Chelsea Railroad Company

Belfast & Moosehead Lake Railroad Company

Berlin Mills Railway Company

Columbus & Greenville Railway Company

East Tennessee & Western No. Carolina Railroad

Ft. Dodge, Des Moines & Southern Railway

Georgia & Florida Railroad Company

Lackawanna & Wyoming Valley Railroad Company

Lake Champlain & Moriah Railroad Company

Macon, Dublin & Savannah Railroad Company

Midland Terminal Railway Company

Missouri & Arkansas Railway Company

New York, Ontario & Western Railway Company

Port Utilities Commission

Quanah, Acme & Pacific Railway Company

Rapid City, Black Hills & Western Railroad Company

Rio Grande Southern Railroad

Rutland Railroad Company

St. Johnsbury & Lake Champlain Railroad

Toledo, Peoria & Western Railroad

Wichita Falls & Southern 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 Employees

The Order of Railroad Telegraphers

Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen of America

National Organization of Master, Mates & Pilots of America

International Longshoremen's Association

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

HARRY S. TRUMAN

THE WHITE HOUSE,

October 25, 1946