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IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MARCH 1, 1946
EXECUTIVE ORDER
#9700
CREATING AN EMERGENCY BOARD TO INVESTIGATE THE DISPUTES
BETWEEN THE
TEXAS & NEW ORLEANS RAILROAD COMPANY, CARRIER,
AND CERTAIN OF ITS EMPLOYEES.
WHEREAS disputes exist between the Texas & New Orleans
Railroad Company, a carrier, and certain of their employees
represented by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and the
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, labor organizations; 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
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commerce within the states of Texas and Louisiana, to a degree such
as to deprive that portion of the country of essential transportation
service:
NOW, THEREFORE, by virtuo 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 bo appointed by me, to
investigate said disputes. 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.
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 Texas & New Orleans Railroad Company, or their
employees in the condition out of which the said disputes arose.
HARRY S. TRUMAN
THE WHITE HOUSE,
March 1, 1946.