Official Document Text
Source: The American Presidency Project (UCSB Archive)
WHEREAS, there exist certain labor disputes between employers (or associations by which such employers are represented in collective bargaining conferences) who are (1) steamship companies operating ships or employed as agents for ships engaged in service from or to Atlantic, Pacific, Great Lakes and Gulf Coast ports of the United States, or from or to other ports of the United States or its territories or possessions, (2) contracting stevedores, (3) contracting marine carpenters, (4) lighterage operators, or (5) other employers engaged in related or associated pier activities, and certain of their employees represented by the International Longshoremen's Association, AFL–CIO, and the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union; and WHEREAS, such disputes have resulted in strikes on Pacific, Atlantic, Great Lakes and Gulf Coast ports of the United States which if permitted to continue will, in my opinion, affect a substantial part of the maritime industry, and industry engaged in trade, commerce, transportation, transmission, or communication among the several States and with foreign nations, and will imperil the national health and safety: Now, THEREFORE, by virtue of the authority vested in me by Section 206 of the Labor-Management Relations Act, 1947 (61 Stat. 155; 29 U.S.C. 176), I hereby create a Board of Inquiry, consisting of: J. Keith Mann, Chairman Morris L. Myers Paul Hanlon Jacob Seidenberg Rolf Valtin as Members, whom I hereby appoint to inquire into the issues involved in such disputes. The Board shall have powers and duties as set forth in Title II of such Act. The Board shall report to the President in accordance with the provisions of Section 206 of such Act on or before October 6, 1971. Upon the submission of its report, the Board shall continue in existence to perform such other functions as may be required under such Act. RICHARD NIXON The White House October 4, 1971