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Executive Order 9918—Creating an Emergency Board to Investigate Disputes Between the Alabama, Tennessee and Northern Railroad Company and Other Carriers, and Certain of Their Employees

December 31, 1947

WHEREAS disputes exist between the Alabama, Tennessee and Northern Railroad Company and certain other carriers designated in list A attached hereto and made a part hereof, and certain of their employees represented by the seventeen cooperating nonoperating 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

Alabama, Tennessee and Northern Railroad Company

Atlantic and East Carolina Railway Company

Belfast and Moosehead Lake Railroad

Chicago, Aurora and Elgin Railway Company

Chicago, North Shore and Milwaukee Railway Company

Colorado and Wyoming Railway Company

Columbus and Greenville Railway Company

East Tennessee and Western North Carolina Railroad Company

Fonda, Johnstown and Gloversville Railroad Company

Georgia and Florida Railroad

Louisiana and North West Railroad Company

Macon, Dublin and Savannah Railroad Company

Meridian and Bigbee River Railway Company

Midland Terminal Railway Company

Mississippi Central Railroad Company

Port Utilities Commission (Charleston)

Tennessee Railroad Company

Wichita Falls and 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 Railway Carmen of America

International Brotherhood of Firemen, Oilers and Maintenance Mechanics, A.F. of L.

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

Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes

The Order of Railroad Telegraphers

Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen of America

National Organization Masters, Mates, and Pilots of America

National Marine Engineers' Beneficial Association

International Longshoremen and Warehousemen's Unions, C.I.O.

Hotel & Restaurant Employees' International Alliance and Bartenders' International League of America

American Train Dispatchers Association

Railroad Yardmasters of America

HARRY S. TRUMAN

THE WHITE HOUSE,

December 31, 1947

Harry S Truman, Executive Order 9918—Creating an Emergency Board to Investigate Disputes Between the Alabama, Tennessee and Northern Railroad Company and Other Carriers, and Certain of Their Employees Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/278890

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