Official Document Text
Source: The American Presidency Project (UCSB Archive)
WHEREAS disputes exist between the carriers represented by the National Railway Labor Conference, designated in List A attached hereto and made a part hereof, and certain of their employees represented by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, a labor organization; 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 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 January 13, 1969 LIST A EASTERN RAILROADS Akron, Canton & Youngstown Railroad Baltimore and Eastern Railroad Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company (including former BR&P territory and Toledo Division Engineers) Baltimore and Ohio Chicago Terminal Railroad Company Boston and Maine Corporation Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal Central Railroad Company of New Jersey Central Vermont Railway, Inc. Chicago River & Indiana Railroad Cleveland Union Terminals Company Delaware and Hudson Railroad Corporation Detroit Terminal Railroad Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railroad Erie Lackawanna Railroad Company Grand Trunk Western Railroad Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad Indianapolis Union Railway Company Lehigh Valley Railroad Monongahela Railway Monon Railroad New York Dock Railway New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad New York, Susquehanna and Western Railroad Norfolk and Western Railway Company (Lines of former New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad Company and lines of former Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railway Company) Penn Central Company Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad (Including Lake Erie and Eastern Railroad) Pittsburgh, Chartiers & Youghiogheny Railway Reading Company Staten Island Rapid Transit Railway Company Toledo Terminal Railroad Company Youngstown and Southern Railway WESTERN RAILROADS Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company Belt Railway Company of Chicago Camas Prairie Railroad Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad Chicago and North Western Railway Company Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad Company Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company Colorado and Southern Railway Company Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway Company Fort Worth and Denver Railway Company Great Northern Railway Company Illinois Central Railroad Company Joint Texas Division of CRI&P–FW&D Kansas City Southern Railway Company King Street Passenger Station Louisiana & Arkansas Railway Company Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Company Missouri Pacific Railroad Company Missouri Pacific Railroad Company (Gulf District) Minnesota Transfer Railway Company New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal Norfolk and Western Railway (Lines formerly operated by Wabash Railroad Company) Northern Pacific Railway Northwestern Pacific Railroad Company Ogden Union Railway and Depot Company Oregon, California & Eastern Railway Company Portland Terminal Railroad Company St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Company (Except NEO District) St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company San Diego & Arizona Eastern Railway Company Soo Line Railroad South Omaha Terminal Railway Company Southern Pacific Company Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway Company (System Lines) Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis Texas and Pacific Railway Company Abilene and Southern Railway Company Kansas, Oklahoma & Gulf Railway Company Texas-New Mexico Railway Company Texas Pacific-Missouri Pacific Terminal Railroad of New Orleans Weatherford, Mineral Wells and Northwestern Railway Company Texas Mexican Railway Company Union Pacific Railroad Warren and Ouachita Valley Railway Company Western Pacific Railroad Company NOTES:1—Includes notice dated March 1, 1968, served by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers on the carrier of desire to revise the current rates of pay for locomotive engineers applicable to miles in excess of 100 to the extent that the rates presently applicable to those miles constituting a basic day will also be applied to all miles in excess of 100. 2—Includes Former El Paso and Southwestern System Engineers; Texas and Louisiana Lines Engineers; Former Pacific Electric Engineers and Firemen; Nogales, Arizona, Yard Engineers. SOUTHEASTERN RAILROADS Atlanta and West Point Rail Road Company The Western Railway of Alabama Atlanta Joint Terminals Central of Georgia Railway Company Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company Clinchfield Railroad Company Georgia Railroad Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad Jacksonville Terminal Company Louisville and Nashville Railroad Norfolk and Portsmouth Belt Line Railroad Norfolk and Western Railway Company (Atlantic and Pocahontas Region) Norfolk Southern Railway Company Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad Company Seaboard Coast Line Railroad Southern Railway Company Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific Railway Company Harriman and Northeastern Railroad Company Alabama Great Southern Railroad Company New Orleans & Northeastern Railroad Company New Orleans Terminal Company St. Johns River Terminal Company Terminal Railway Alabama State Docks