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IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 13, 1948
EXECUTIVE ORDER
#9923
CREATING AN EMERGENCY BOARD TO INVESTIGATE A
DISPUTE BETWEEN THE AKRON & BARBERTON BELT
RAILROAD AND CERTAIN OF ITS EMPLOYEES
WHEREAS a dispute exists between The Akron & Barberton
Belt Railroad, a carrier, and cortain of its employees represented
by the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, a labor organization;
and
WHEREAS this disputo has not herotofore been adjusted
under the provisions of the Railway Labor Act, as amended; and
WHEREAS this dispute, in the judgment of the National
Modiation Board, threatons substantially to interrupt interstate
commorce within the state of Ohio, to a degree such as to deprive
that portion of 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 creato a board of three members, to be appointed
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by mo, to investigate said dispute. No member of the said board
shall be pocuniarily 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 dispute 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 Akron & Barberton Belt Railroad or its em-
ployees in the conditions out of which the said dispute arose.
HARRY S. TRUMAN
THE WHITE HOUSE,
January 13, 1948.