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#1240 289
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
JULY 18, 1947
EXECUTIVE ORDER
#9874
CREATING AN EMERGENCY BOARD TO INVESTIGATE
DISPUTES BETWEEN THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC COM-
PANY (PACIFIC LINES), , THE NORTHWESTERN PACIF-
IC RAILROAD COMPANY, AND THE SAN DIEGO & ARI-
ZONA EASTERN RAILMAY COMPANY, AND CERTAIN
OF THEIR EMPLOYEES
WHEREAS disputes, consisting of approximately 531 cases listed
in "Official ballot" dated January 6, 1947, exist between the Southern
Pacific'Company (Pacific Lines), the Northwestern Pacific Railroad
Company, and the San Diego & Arizona Eastern Railway Company, carriers,
and certain of their employees represented by the Brotherhood of Loco-
motive Engineers, a labor organization; and
WHEREAS these disputes have not heretofore been adjusted
KRUMAD
under the provisions of the Railway Labor Act, as amended; and
NARA
WHEREAS these disputes, in the judgment of the National
Mediation Board, threaten substantially to interrupt interstate commerce
within the States of Arizona, California, Louisiana, Nevada, New Mexico,
Oregon, Texas, Utah, and Washington to a degree such as to deprive that
portion of the country of essential transportation service:
NOW, THEREFORE, by virtuer 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. 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 any
of the above-named carriers or their employees in the conditions out of
which the said disputes arose.
HARRY S. TRUMAN
THE WHITE HOUSE,
July 18, 1947.