Executive Order 10944—Creating an Emergency Board to Investigate a Dispute Between the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company and Other Carriers and Certain of Their Employees

WHEREAS a dispute exists between the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company and other carriers represented by the Eastern, Western, and Southeastern Carriers' Conference Committees, designated in List A attached hereto and hereby made a part hereof, and certain of their employees represented by the Railroad Yardmasters of America, 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 to a degree such as to deprive a section 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 this dispute. No member of the board shall be pecuniarily or otherwise interested in any organization of railroad employees or any carrier. The board shall report its findings to the President with respect to the 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 Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company and other carriers represented by the Eastern, Western, and Southeastern Carriers' Conference Committees, or by their employees, in the conditions out of which the dispute arose. JOHN F. KENNEDY THE WHITE HOUSE, May 19, 1961 LIST A EASTERN RAILROADS Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company Baltimore and Ohio-Chicago Terminal Staten Ialand Rapid Transit Boston and Maine Railroad Boston Terminal Buffalo Creek Railway Cleveland Union Terminals Chicago River & Indiana Railroad Delaware & Hudson Railroad Corporation Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad Company Detroit Terminal Railroad Company Erie Railroad Grand Trunk Western Railroad Company Lehigh & New England Railroad Company Lehigh Valley Railway Company Long Island Railroad Company Monon Railroad New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Pennsylvania Railroad Company Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad Company Pittsburgh & West Virginia Railroad Pittsburgh, Chartiers & Youghiogheny Railway Company Washington Terminal Company WESTERN RAILROADS Alton and Southern Railroad Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway Panhandle and Santa Fe Railway Chicago and North Western Railway, (including former C.St. PM&O, but excluding former L&M) Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Chicago, Great Western Railway (including South St. Paul Terminal) Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad Chicago Produce Terminal Company Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Ralroad Davenport, Rock Island and North Western Railway Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Des Moines Union Rallway Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic Railroad Fort Worth and Denver Railway Great Northern Railway Houston Belt & Terminal Railway Illlnois Northern Railway Kansas City Southern Railway Louisiana & Arkansas Railway Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway Railway Transfer Company of the City of Minneapolis Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Railroad Minnesota Transfer Railway Missouri Paclfic Railroad Northern Pacific Railway (including King Street Passenger Station) Ogden Union Railway and Depot Company Peoria and Pekin Union Railway Port Terminal Railroad Association St. Louis-San Francisco Railway St. Louis, San Francisco and Texas Railway St. Paul Union Depot Company Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis Texas and Pacific Railway Fort Worth Belt Railway Texas Pacific-Missouri Pacific Terminal Railroad of New Orleans Union Pacific Railroad Union Railway Company (Memphis) Union Terminal Company (Dallas) Wabash Railroad Western Pacific Railroad SOUTHEASTERN RAILROADS Western Railway of Alabama Clinchfield Railroad Florida East Coast Railroad Gulf, Mobile & Ohio Railroad Jacksonville Terminal Company Kentucky & Indiana Terminal Railroad Louisville & Nashville Railroad Norfolk & Western Railway Southern Railway Cinncinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific Railway Alabama Great Southern Railway New Orleans & Northeastern Railroad New Orleans Terminal Company Georgia Southern & Florida Railway