Executive Order 11445—Creating an Emergency Board to Investigate Disputes Between the Carriers Represented by the National Railway Labor Conference and Certain of Their Employees

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 Railroad Signalmen, 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 Company Ann Arbor Railroad Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company Baltimore and Ohio Chicago Terminal Railroad Company Bangor and Aroostook Railroad Company Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad Company Boston and Maine Corporation Boston Terminal Corporation Canadian National Railway Company, St. Lawrence Region, Lines in the United States Canadian Pacific Railway Central Railroad Company of New Jersey New York and Long Branch Railroad Central Vermont Railway, Inc. Cincinnati Union Terminal Company Cleveland Union Terminals Company Dayton Union Railway Delaware and Hudson Railroad Corporation Detroit and Toledo Shore Line Railroad Company Detroit Terminal Railroad Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railroad Erie Lackawanna Railroad Grand Trunk Western Railroad Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad Indianapolis Union Railway Company Lehigh & Hudson River Railway Company Lehigh and New England Railway Company Lehigh Valley Railroad Long Island Rail Road Maine Central Railroad Company Portland Terminal Company Monongahela Railway Monon Railroad New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad New York, Susquehanna and Western Railroad Norfolk and Western Railway Company (Lines of Former New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad and Lines of Former Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railway) Penn Central Company Former Pennsylvania Railroad Company Former New York Central Railroad Company Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines Reading Company Staten Island Rapid Transit Railway Company Washington Terminal Company Western Maryland Railway Company WESTERN RAILROADS Alton and Southern Railroad Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company Belt Railway Company of Chicago Camas Prairie Railroad Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad Chicago & Illinois Midland Railway Company Chicago and North Western Railway Company (Includes former Chicago Great Western) Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company Colorado and Southern Railway Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company Denver Union Terminal Railway Company Duluth, Winnipeg and Pacific Railway Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway Company Fort Worth and Denver Railway Company Galveston, Houston and Henderson Railroad Company Great Northern Railway Company Green Bay and Western Railroad Company Kewaunee, Green Bay and Western Railroad Company Houston Belt & Terminal Railway Company Illinois Central Railroad Joint Texas Division of CRI&P–FtW&D Railway Company Kansas City Southern Railway Company Louisiana and Arkansas Railway Company Kansas City Terminal Railway Company Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Company Missouri Pacific Railroad Company New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal Norfolk and Western Railway (Lines formerly operated by the Wabash Railroad Company) Northern Pacific Railway Paducah and Illinois Railroad Peoria and Pekin Union Railway Company St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Company St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company Soo Line Railroad Southern Pacific Company Pacific Lines Texas and Louisiana Lines Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway Company (System Lines) Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis Texas and Pacific Railway Company Texas Pacific-Missouri Pacific Terminal Railroad of New Orleans Toledo, Peoria and Western Railroad Company Union Pacific Railroad Company Union Terminal Company (Dallas) Western Pacific Railroad Company SOUTHEASTERN RAILROADS Atlanta and West Point Rail Road Western Railway of Alabama Atlanta Joint Terminals Central of Georgia Railway Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Clinchfield Railroad Georgia Railroad Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad Jacksonville Terminal Company Kentucky & Indiana Terminal Company Louisville and Nashville Railroad New Orleans Public Belt Railroad Norfolk and Western Railway (Atlantic and Pocahontas Regions) Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad (Including Potomac Yard) Seaboard Coast Line Railroad Southern Railway Alabama Great Southern Railroad Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railway Georgia Southern and Florida Railway Harriman and Northeastern Railroad New Orleans and Northeastern Railroad New Orleans Terminal Company St. Johns River Terminal Company