CREATING AN EMERGENCY BOARD TO INVESTIGATE A DISPUTE BETWEEN THE ATLANTA & WEST POINT RAIL ROAD COMPANY AND THE WESTERN RAILWAY OF ALABAMA AND CERTAIN OF THEIR EMPLOYEES
WHEREAS a dispute exists between the Atlanta & West Point Rail Road Company and the Western Railway of Alabama, carriers, and certain of their employees represented by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, a labor organization; and
WHEREAS this dispute has not heretofore been adjusted under the provisions of the Railway Labor Act, as amended; and
WHEREAS this dispute, in the judgment of the National Mediation Board, threatens substantially to interrupt interstate commerce within the states of Alabama and Georgia 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 create a board of three members, to be appointed by me, to investigate the said dispute. 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 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 Atlanta & West Point Rail Road Company and the Western Railway of Alabama or their employees in the conditions out of which the said dispute arose.
HARRY S. TRUMAN
THE WHITE HOUSE,
October 15, 1947
WHEREAS a dispute exists between the Atlanta & West Point Rail Road Company and the Western Railway of Alabama, carriers, and certain of their employees represented by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, a labor organization; and
WHEREAS this dispute has not heretofore been adjusted under the provisions of the Railway Labor Act, as amended; and
WHEREAS this dispute, in the judgment of the National Mediation Board, threatens substantially to interrupt interstate commerce within the states of Alabama and Georgia 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 create a board of three members, to be appointed by me, to investigate the said dispute. 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 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 Atlanta & West Point Rail Road Company and the Western Railway of Alabama or their employees in the conditions out of which the said dispute arose.
HARRY S. TRUMAN
THE WHITE HOUSE,
October 15, 1947