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Executive Order 11170 Constitutional Neutral (+0.02)

Executive Order 11170—Creating an Emergency Board to Investigate Disputes Between the Carriers Represented by the National Railway Labor Conference and Certain of Their Employees

Lyndon B. Johnson Lyndon B. Johnson
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Tuesday, August 18, 1964
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6 min read (1,185 words)

Plain-English Translation & Framers' Constitutional Analysis

Early Statesman synthesis distilling legal jargon into practical meaning, statutory anchors, and structural constitutional impacts.

This executive order, signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson on 1964-08-18, establishes federal administrative policy concerning "Creating an Emergency Board to Investigate Disputes Between the Carriers Represented by the National Railway Labor Conference and Certain of Their Employees." It outlines operative directives for executive department officers, delegating enforcement responsibilities and establishing official governance guidelines.

Constitutional Assessment: This action represents an orderly exercise of Article II administrative discretion, managing the internal machinery and personnel of the executive branch without abridging the ancient liberties of the people.

Key Directives & Operative Actions

▪ 160), I hereby create a board to be appointed by me, to investigate these disputes.
▪ 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 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 the carriers represented by the National Railway Labor Conference, or by their employees, in the conditions out of which the disputes arose.

Constitutional & Societal Entities Impacted

🏛️ Executive Branch Departments 🏛️ General Body of the People
Total Words
1,185
8,398 characters
Estimated Read Time
6 min
@ 200 words / min
Flesch-Kincaid
30.7
Post-Grad reading level
Constitutional Polarity
+0.02
Framers' Alignment index
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Scholarly & Legal Citations 

Exec. Order No. 11170, Lyndon B. Johnson (Aug 18, 1964). Available at https://executiveordersarchive.org/orders/app-executive-order-11170-creating-emergency-board-investigate-disputes-between-the-carriers.

Official Document Text

Source: The American Presidency Project (UCSB Archive)

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WHEREAS disputes exist between the carriers represented by the National Railway Labor Conference, designated in List A attached hereto and made a part thereof, and certain of their employees represented by the Five Cooperating Railway Labor Organizations, 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 to be appointed by me, to investigate these disputes. 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 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 the carriers represented by the National Railway Labor Conference, or by their employees, in the conditions out of which the disputes arose. LYNDON B. JOHNSON The White House, August 18, 1964. List A EASTERN RAILROADS Akron & Barberton Belt Railroad Company Akron, Canton & Youngstown Railroad Ann Arbor Railroad Company Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company Baltimore & Ohio Chicago Terminal Railroad Company Staten Island Rapid Transit Railway Company Strouds Creek and Muddlety Railroad Bangor and Aroostook Railroad Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad Boston and Maine Railroad Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal Buffalo Creek Railroad Bush Terminal Canadian National Railways Lines in the United States St. Lawrence Region Great Lakes Region Canadian Pacific Railway Company Central Railroad Company of New Jersey New York & Long Branch Railroad Company Central Vermont Railway Chicago Union Station Company Cincinnati Union Terminal Company Dayton Union Railway Company Delaware and Hudson Railroad Corporation Detroit and Toledo Shore Line Railroad Company Detroit Terminal Railroad Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railroad Company Erie-Lackawanna Railroad Company Grand Trunk Western Railroad Company Indianapolis Union Railway Company Lehigh and Hudson River Railway Company Lehigh Valley Railroad Long Island Rail Road Company Maine Central Railroad Company Portland Terminal Company Monon Railroad Monongahela Railway Company Montour Railroad Company Youngstown & Southern Railway Company New York Central System New York Central Railroad Company New York District Grand Central Terminal Eastern District Boston & Albany Division Western District Northern District Southern District Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad Company Chicago River & Indiana Railroad Company Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad Company Lake Erie & Eastern Railroad Company Cleveland Union Terminals Company Troy Union Railroad Company New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad Company New York Dock Railway *New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company *The Boston Terminal Corporation Union Freight Railroad (Boston) New Xork Connecting Railroad New York, Susquehanna & Western Railroad Pennsylvania Railroad Company Baltimore & Eastern Railroad Company Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines Pittsburgh & West Virginia Railway Company Pittsburgh, Chartiers & Youghiogheny Railway Company Railroad Perishable Inspection Agency Reading Company Philadelphia, Reading & Potts. Telegraph Company River Terminal Railway Toledo Terminal Railroad Company Washington Terminal Company Western Maryland Railway Company WESTERN RAILROADS Alton and Southern Railroad Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway Panhandle and Santa Fe Railway Bauxite and Northern Railway Belt Railway Company of Chicago Butte, Anaconda and Pacific Railway Camas Prairie Railroad Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad Chicago & Illinois Midland Railway Chicago and Illinois Western Railroad Chicago & North Western Railway (Including the former C.St.P.M.&O., M.&St. L., L.&M., M.I. and Railway Transfer Company of the City of Minneapolis.) Chicago and Western Indiana Railroad Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Chicago Great Western Railway Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad Chicago Produce Terminal Company Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Chicago, West Pullman and Southern Railroad Colorado and Southern Railway Colorado and Wyoming Railway Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Denver Union Terminal Railway Des Moines Union Railway Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway Duluth Union Depot & Transfer Company Duluth, Winnipeg & Pacific Railway Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway El Paso Union Passenger Depot Company Fort Worth and Denver Railway Galveston, Houston and Henderson Railroad Great Northern Railway Green Bay and Western Railroad Kewaunee, Green Bay and Western Railroad Houston Belt & Terminal Railway Illinois Central Railroad Illinois Northern Railway Illinois Terminal Railroad Joint Texas Division of the C.R.I. & P. Railroad and Fort Worth & Denver Railway Joplin Union Depot Company Kansas City Southern Railway Arkansas Western Railway Kansas City, Shreveport & Gulf Terminal Company Kansas City Terminal Railway Kansas, Oklahoma & Gulf Railway Midland Valley Railroad Oklahoma City-Ada-Atoka Railway King Street Passenger Station (Seattle) Lake Superior & Ishpeming Railroad Lake Superior Terminal & Transfer Railway Los Angeles Junction Railway Louisiana & Arkansas Railway Manufacturers Railway Minneapolis, Northfield & Southern Railway Minnesota and Manitoba Railroad Minnesota Transfer Railway Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Company Beaver, Meade and Englewood Railroad Missouri Pacific Railroad Missouri-Illinois Railroad Northern Pacific Railway Northern Pacific Terminal Company of Oregon Northwestern Pacific Railroad Ogden Union Railway and Depot Company Oklahoma City Stock Yards Agency Oregon, California & Eastern Railway Company Pacific Coast Railroad Company Paducah and Illinois Railroad Peabody Short Line Railroad Peoria and Pekin Union Railway Company Port Terminal Railroad Association Pueblo Joint Interchange Bureau St. Joseph Terminal Railroad St. Louis-San Francisco Railway St. Louis, San Francisco & Texas Railway St. Louis Southwestern Railway Saint Paul Union Depot Company San Diego & Arizona Eastern Railway Sioux City Terminal Railway Soo Line Railroad Southern Pacific Company (Pacific Lines) Southern Pacific Company (Texas and Louisiana Lines) Spokane International Railroad Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway Oregon Trunk Railway Oregon Electric Railway Stock Yards District Agency Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis Texarkana Union Station Trust Texas and Pacific Railway Abilene and Southern Railway Fort Worth Belt Railway Texas-New Mexico Railway Weatherford, Mineral Wells and Northwestern Railway Texas Mexican Railway Texas Pacific-Missouri Pacific Terminal Railroad of New Orleans Toledo, Peoria & Western Railroad Union Pacific Railroad Union Railway (Memphis) Union Terminal Company (Dallas) Wabash Railroad Walla Walla Valley Railroad Western Pacific Railroad Western Weighing and Inspection Bureau Wichita Terminal Association Wichita Union Terminal Railway Yakima Valley Transportation Company SOUTHEASTERN RAILROADS Atlanta & West Point Railroad Western Railway of Alabama Atlanta Joint Terminals Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Clinchfield Railroad Georgia Railroad Gulf, Mobile & Ohio Railroad Jacksonville Terminal Kentucky & Indiana Terminal Railway Louisville & Nashville Railroad Norfolk & Portsmouth Belt Line Norfolk Southern Railway Norfolk & Western Railway Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac Railroad Seaboard Air Line Railway List B Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers, Express & Station Employes Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes The Order of Railroad Telegraphers Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen Hotel & Restaurant Employes & Bartenders' International Union * In trusteeship. Any commitment subject to court approval.