CREATING AN EMERGENCY BOARD TO INVETIGATE A DISPUTE BETWEEN THE AKRON, CANTON & YOUNGSTWN RAILROAD COMPANY AND OTHER CARRIRES AND CERTAIN OF THEIR EMPLOYEES
WHEREAS a dispute exists between the Akron, Canton & Youngstown Railroad Company and other carriers designated in the list attached hereto and made a part hereof, and certain of their employees represented by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, and the Switchmen's Union of North America, labor organizations; 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 to a degree such as to deprive 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 any of the carriers involved or their employees in the conditions out of which the said dispute arose.
LIST
EASTERN REGION
Akron, Canton & Youngstown Railroad Co.
Ann Arbor Railroad Company
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company
B&O Chicago Terminal RR Co.
Bessemer & Lake Erie Railroad Company
Boston and Maine Railroad
Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal
Bush Terminal Railroad Company
Canadian National Railways
Canadian Natl. Rys.-Lines in N.E.
Champlain & St. Lawrence Railroad
United States & Canada Railroad
St. Clair Tunnel Company
Central Vermont Railway, Inc.
Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co.
Pere Marquette District
Fort Street Union Depot Co.
Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville Ry. Co.
Cincinnati Union Terminal Company
Delaware & Hudson Railroad Corporation
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western RR Co.
Detroit Terminal Railroad Company
Detroit, Toledo & Ironton Railroad Co.
Detroit Terminal Railroad Company
Detroit, Toledo & Ironton Railroad Co.
Erie Railroad Company
Grand Trunk Western Railroad Company
Huntingdon & Broad Top Mt. RR & Coal Co.
Indianapolis Union Railway Company
Lake Terminal Railroad Company
Lehigh & New England Railroad Company
Lehigh Valley Railroad Company
Maine Central Railroad Company
Portland Terminal Company
McKeesport Connecting Railroad
Monongahela Railway Company
Montour Railroad Company
New York Central RR (Full Line Agreements)
NYC RR-Buffalo and East
NYC RR-West of Buffalo
Michigan Central Railroad
C.C.C. & St. L. Railway
Peoria & Eastern Railway
L. & J. B. & Railroad Co.
Boston & Albany Railroad
Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad
Chicago River & Indiana (C. J. Ry.)
Pittsburg & Lake Erie RR (L.E. & E.)
Cleveland Union Terminals
New York, Chicago & St Louis RR Co.
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Co.
Northampton & Bath Railroad Company
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Baltimore & Eastern Railroad Co.
Long Island Rail Road Company
Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines
Pittsburgh & West Virginia Railway Co.
Pittsburgh, Chartiers & Youghiogheny Ry.
Reading Company
River Terminal Railway Co.
Staten Island Rapid Transit Railway
Union Freight RR Co. (Boston)
Washington Terminal Company
Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway Co.
Lorain & West Virginia Railway Co.
SOUTHEASTERN REGION
Atlantic Coast Line
Atlanta & West Point RR
Western Railway of Alabama
Atlanta Joint Terminals
Central of Georgia Ry.
Charleston & Western Carolina Ry.
Chesapeake & Ohio-Chesapeake Dist.
Clinchfield RR
Florida East Coast Ry.
Georgia RR
Gulf, Mobile & Ohio RR
Jacksonville Terminal Company
Kentucky &* Indiana Terminal RR
Louisville & Nashville RR
Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Ry.
Norfolk & Portsmouth Belt Line RR
Norfolk & Western Ry
Richmond Fredericksburg & Potomac RR
Seaboard Air Line Ry
Southern
Alabama Great Southern
Cin. Burnside & Cumberland River Ry.
Cin. New Orleans & Texas Pacific Ry.
Georgia Southern & Florida Ry
Harriman & Northeastern RR
New Orleans & Northeastern
New Orleans Terminal
St. Johns River Terminal
Virginian Ry.
WESTERN REGION
Atchison, Topeka, & Santa Fe Ry.
Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Ry.
Panhandle & Santa Fe Ry.
Belt Ry. Co. of Chicago
Burlington-Rock Island RR
Camas Prairie RR
Chicago & Eastern Illinois RR
Chicago & Illinois Midland Ry
Chicago & North Western Ry
Chicago & Western Indiana RR
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy RR
Chicago Great Western /Ry (Inc. S. St. Paul Terminal)
Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific RR
Chicago, Terre Haute & Southeastern Ry
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Ry
Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Ry
Colorado & Southern Ry
Colorado & Wyoming Ry
Davenport, Rock Island & Northwestern Ry
Denver & Rio Grande Western RR
Denver & Rio Grande Western RR (Former D&SL)
Des Moines Union Ry
Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range Ry (Iron Range Div.)
Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range Ry (Missabe Div.)
Duluth, Winnipeg & Pacific Ry
East St. Louis Junction RR
Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Ry
Fort Worth & Denver City Ry
Wichita Valley Ry
Galveston, Houston & Henderson RR
Great Northern Ry
Green Bay & Western RR
Kewaunee, Green Bay & Western RR
Gulf Coast Lines-Comprising
Asherton & Gulf Ry
Asphalt Belt Ry
Beaumont, Sour Lake & Western Ry
Houston & Brazos Valley Ry
Houston North Shore Ry
Iberia, St. Mary & Eastern RR
International-Great Northern RR
New Iberia & Northern RR
New Orleans, Texas & Mexico Ry
Orange & Northwestern RR
Rio Grande City Ry
St. Louis, Brownsville & Mexico Ry
San Antonio Southern Ry
San Antonio, Uvalde & Gulf RR
San Benito & Rio Grande Valley Ry
Sugar Land Ry
Houston Belt & Terminal Ry
Illinois Central RR
Chicago & Illinois Western RR
Kansas City Southern Ry
Kansas City Terminal Ry
Los Angeles Junction Ry
Louisiana & Arkansas Ry
Manufacturers Ry
Midland Valley RR
Kansas, Oklahoma & Gulf Ry
Oklahoma City-ADA-Atoka Ry
Minneapolis & St. Louis Ry
Railway Transfer Co. of City of Minneapolis
Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie RR
Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic Ry
Mineral Range RR
Minnesota Transfer Ry
Missouri-Kansas-Texas RR
Missouri-Kansas-Texas RR co. of Texas
Missouri Pacific RR
Northern Pacific Ry
Northern Pacific Terminal Co. of Oregon
Northwestern Pacific RR
Ogden Union Ry. & Depot Co.
Oregon, California & Eastern Ry
Peoria & Pekin Union Ry
Port Terminal Railroad Association
St. Joseph Terminal RR
St. Louis-San Francisco Ry
St. Louis, San Francisco & Texas Ry
St. Louis Southwestern Ry
St. Louis Southwestern Ry. Co. of Texas
St Paul Union Depot Co.
San Diego & Arizona Eastern Ry
Sioux City Terminal Ry
Southern Pacific Co. (Pacific Lines)-excluding former
El Paso & Southwestern System
Southern Pacific Co. -Former El Paso & Southwestern System
Southern Pacific Co.-Former Arizona Eastern RR-Phoenix Dist.
Spokane, Portland & Seattle Ry
Oregon Electric Ry
Oregon Trunk Ry
Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis
Texas & New Orleans RR
Texas & Pacific Ry
Abilene & Southern Ry
Fort Worth Belt Ry
Texas-new Mexico Ry
Texas Short Line Ry
Weatherford, Mineral Wells & Northwestern Ry
Texas Mexican Ry
Texas Pacific-Missouri Pacific Terminal RR of New Orleans
Union Pacific RR
Union Railway Co. (Memphis)
Union Terminal Co. (Dallas)
Wabash RR-Lines West of Detroit and Toledo
Wabash RR-Lines East of Detroit (Buffalo Div.)
Western Pacific RR
HARRY S. TRUMAN
THE WHITE HOUSE,
January 27, 1948
WHEREAS a dispute exists between the Akron, Canton & Youngstown Railroad Company and other carriers designated in the list attached hereto and made a part hereof, and certain of their employees represented by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, and the Switchmen's Union of North America, labor organizations; 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 to a degree such as to deprive 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 any of the carriers involved or their employees in the conditions out of which the said dispute arose.
LIST
EASTERN REGION
Akron, Canton & Youngstown Railroad Co.
Ann Arbor Railroad Company
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company
B&O Chicago Terminal RR Co.
Bessemer & Lake Erie Railroad Company
Boston and Maine Railroad
Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal
Bush Terminal Railroad Company
Canadian National Railways
Canadian Natl. Rys.-Lines in N.E.
Champlain & St. Lawrence Railroad
United States & Canada Railroad
St. Clair Tunnel Company
Central Vermont Railway, Inc.
Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co.
Pere Marquette District
Fort Street Union Depot Co.
Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville Ry. Co.
Cincinnati Union Terminal Company
Delaware & Hudson Railroad Corporation
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western RR Co.
Detroit Terminal Railroad Company
Detroit, Toledo & Ironton Railroad Co.
Detroit Terminal Railroad Company
Detroit, Toledo & Ironton Railroad Co.
Erie Railroad Company
Grand Trunk Western Railroad Company
Huntingdon & Broad Top Mt. RR & Coal Co.
Indianapolis Union Railway Company
Lake Terminal Railroad Company
Lehigh & New England Railroad Company
Lehigh Valley Railroad Company
Maine Central Railroad Company
Portland Terminal Company
McKeesport Connecting Railroad
Monongahela Railway Company
Montour Railroad Company
New York Central RR (Full Line Agreements)
NYC RR-Buffalo and East
NYC RR-West of Buffalo
Michigan Central Railroad
C.C.C. & St. L. Railway
Peoria & Eastern Railway
L. & J. B. & Railroad Co.
Boston & Albany Railroad
Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad
Chicago River & Indiana (C. J. Ry.)
Pittsburg & Lake Erie RR (L.E. & E.)
Cleveland Union Terminals
New York, Chicago & St Louis RR Co.
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Co.
Northampton & Bath Railroad Company
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Baltimore & Eastern Railroad Co.
Long Island Rail Road Company
Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines
Pittsburgh & West Virginia Railway Co.
Pittsburgh, Chartiers & Youghiogheny Ry.
Reading Company
River Terminal Railway Co.
Staten Island Rapid Transit Railway
Union Freight RR Co. (Boston)
Washington Terminal Company
Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway Co.
Lorain & West Virginia Railway Co.
SOUTHEASTERN REGION
Atlantic Coast Line
Atlanta & West Point RR
Western Railway of Alabama
Atlanta Joint Terminals
Central of Georgia Ry.
Charleston & Western Carolina Ry.
Chesapeake & Ohio-Chesapeake Dist.
Clinchfield RR
Florida East Coast Ry.
Georgia RR
Gulf, Mobile & Ohio RR
Jacksonville Terminal Company
Kentucky &* Indiana Terminal RR
Louisville & Nashville RR
Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Ry.
Norfolk & Portsmouth Belt Line RR
Norfolk & Western Ry
Richmond Fredericksburg & Potomac RR
Seaboard Air Line Ry
Southern
Alabama Great Southern
Cin. Burnside & Cumberland River Ry.
Cin. New Orleans & Texas Pacific Ry.
Georgia Southern & Florida Ry
Harriman & Northeastern RR
New Orleans & Northeastern
New Orleans Terminal
St. Johns River Terminal
Virginian Ry.
WESTERN REGION
Atchison, Topeka, & Santa Fe Ry.
Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Ry.
Panhandle & Santa Fe Ry.
Belt Ry. Co. of Chicago
Burlington-Rock Island RR
Camas Prairie RR
Chicago & Eastern Illinois RR
Chicago & Illinois Midland Ry
Chicago & North Western Ry
Chicago & Western Indiana RR
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy RR
Chicago Great Western /Ry (Inc. S. St. Paul Terminal)
Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific RR
Chicago, Terre Haute & Southeastern Ry
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Ry
Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Ry
Colorado & Southern Ry
Colorado & Wyoming Ry
Davenport, Rock Island & Northwestern Ry
Denver & Rio Grande Western RR
Denver & Rio Grande Western RR (Former D&SL)
Des Moines Union Ry
Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range Ry (Iron Range Div.)
Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range Ry (Missabe Div.)
Duluth, Winnipeg & Pacific Ry
East St. Louis Junction RR
Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Ry
Fort Worth & Denver City Ry
Wichita Valley Ry
Galveston, Houston & Henderson RR
Great Northern Ry
Green Bay & Western RR
Kewaunee, Green Bay & Western RR
Gulf Coast Lines-Comprising
Asherton & Gulf Ry
Asphalt Belt Ry
Beaumont, Sour Lake & Western Ry
Houston & Brazos Valley Ry
Houston North Shore Ry
Iberia, St. Mary & Eastern RR
International-Great Northern RR
New Iberia & Northern RR
New Orleans, Texas & Mexico Ry
Orange & Northwestern RR
Rio Grande City Ry
St. Louis, Brownsville & Mexico Ry
San Antonio Southern Ry
San Antonio, Uvalde & Gulf RR
San Benito & Rio Grande Valley Ry
Sugar Land Ry
Houston Belt & Terminal Ry
Illinois Central RR
Chicago & Illinois Western RR
Kansas City Southern Ry
Kansas City Terminal Ry
Los Angeles Junction Ry
Louisiana & Arkansas Ry
Manufacturers Ry
Midland Valley RR
Kansas, Oklahoma & Gulf Ry
Oklahoma City-ADA-Atoka Ry
Minneapolis & St. Louis Ry
Railway Transfer Co. of City of Minneapolis
Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie RR
Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic Ry
Mineral Range RR
Minnesota Transfer Ry
Missouri-Kansas-Texas RR
Missouri-Kansas-Texas RR co. of Texas
Missouri Pacific RR
Northern Pacific Ry
Northern Pacific Terminal Co. of Oregon
Northwestern Pacific RR
Ogden Union Ry. & Depot Co.
Oregon, California & Eastern Ry
Peoria & Pekin Union Ry
Port Terminal Railroad Association
St. Joseph Terminal RR
St. Louis-San Francisco Ry
St. Louis, San Francisco & Texas Ry
St. Louis Southwestern Ry
St. Louis Southwestern Ry. Co. of Texas
St Paul Union Depot Co.
San Diego & Arizona Eastern Ry
Sioux City Terminal Ry
Southern Pacific Co. (Pacific Lines)-excluding former
El Paso & Southwestern System
Southern Pacific Co. -Former El Paso & Southwestern System
Southern Pacific Co.-Former Arizona Eastern RR-Phoenix Dist.
Spokane, Portland & Seattle Ry
Oregon Electric Ry
Oregon Trunk Ry
Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis
Texas & New Orleans RR
Texas & Pacific Ry
Abilene & Southern Ry
Fort Worth Belt Ry
Texas-new Mexico Ry
Texas Short Line Ry
Weatherford, Mineral Wells & Northwestern Ry
Texas Mexican Ry
Texas Pacific-Missouri Pacific Terminal RR of New Orleans
Union Pacific RR
Union Railway Co. (Memphis)
Union Terminal Co. (Dallas)
Wabash RR-Lines West of Detroit and Toledo
Wabash RR-Lines East of Detroit (Buffalo Div.)
Western Pacific RR
HARRY S. TRUMAN
THE WHITE HOUSE,
January 27, 1948