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IMMEDIATE REIEASE
OCTOBER 5, 1945
EXECUTIVE ORDER
#9640
CREATING AN EMERGENCY BOARD TO INVESTIGATE TIE DISPUTES
BETWEEN TIE
RAILWAY EXPRESS AGENCY, , INC.,
AND CERTAIN OF ITS EMPLOYEES.
WIEREAS disputes exidt between the Railway Express Agency,
Inc., the carrior;, and certain of its employees represented by the
International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen and
(RUAD)
Helpers of America, a labor organization; and
NARA
WHEREAS, these disputes have not heretofore been adjusted
under the provisions of the Railway Labor Act, as amended; and
WIEREAS, these disputes, in the judgment of the National
Mediation Boord, threaten substantially to interrupt interstate
commerce to a degree such as to deprive a large section of the
country of essential transportation service:
NON, TIEREFORE, by virtue of the authority vested in me by
section 10 of the Railway Labor Act, as amended (45 U.S.C. 160), I
heroby create a board of three members, to be appointed by me, to
investigate said disputos. No membor of the said board shall be
pecuniarily or otherwise interosted in any organization of railway
employees or any carrier.
The board shall roport its findings to the Prosident with
respect to the said 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 roport to the President, no chonge, except by agreement, sholl
be made by the Roilway Express Agoncy, Inc. or their employees in
the conditions out of which the said disputes arose.
HARRY S. TRUMAN
THE WIITE HIOUSE
Octo bor 5, 1945.