Executive Order 10150—Creating an Emergency Board to Investigate Disputes Between the Atlantic & East Carolina Railway Company and Other Carriers, and Certain of Their Employees

WHEREAS disputes exist between the Atlantic & East Carolina Railway Company and certain other carriers designated in list A attached hereto and made a part hereof, and certain of their employees represented by the sixteen cooperating non-operating labor organizations designated in list B attached hereto and made a part hereof; 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 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 disputes. Each of the carriers involved shall be given independent consideration in such investigation, and the said labor organizations shall be permitted to function as a unit in proceedings before the board. 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. The board may, to the extent it deems necessary or desirable, make separate and independent findings with respect to each of the carriers involved. 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 disputes arose. LIST "A" Atlantic & East Carolina Railway Company Barre & Chelsea Railroad Company Belfast & Moosehead Lake Railroad Company Chicago, Aurora and Elgin Railway Company Chicago, South Shore & South Bend Railroad Columbus & Greenville Railway Company Cooper Range Railroad Denver Union Stockyards Company Des Moines & Central Iowa Railway Company El Paso Union Passenger Depot Company Escanaba & Lake Superior Railroad Company Galveston Wharves Huntington & Broad Top Mountain Railroad and Coal Company Lancaster & Chester Railway Company Meridian & Bigbee River Railway Company New Orleans & Lower Coast R.R. Company Ogden Union Stockyards Company Old Point Comfort Joint Agency Rio Grande Southern Railroad St. Johnsbury & LaMoille County Railroad Salt Lake Union Stockyards Company Sioux City Terminal Railway Company Stockyards District Agency of Chicago Tennessee Railroad Company Texas Pacific, Missouri Pacific Terminal Company of New Orleans Winona Railroad Company LIST "B" International Association of Machinists International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron Ship Builders and Helpers of America International Brotherhood of Blacksmiths, Drop Forgers and Helpers Sheet Metal Workers' International association International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Brotherhood of Railway Carmen of America International Brotherhood of Firemen, Oilers, Roundhouse and Railway Shop Laborers Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers, Express and Station Employees Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes The Order of Railroad Telegraphers Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen of America National Organization of Master, Mates & Pilots of America National Marine Engineers' Beneficial Association International Longshoremen's Association Hotel and Restaurant Employees' International Alliance and Bartenders' Int. League of America Railroad Yardmasters of America HARRY S. TRUMAN THE WHITE HOUSE, August 11, 1950