Executive Order 9793—Creating An Emergency Board to Investigate Disputes Between the Atlanta & St. Andrews Bay Railway Company and Other Carriers, and Certain of Their Employees

WHEREAS disputes exist between The Atlanta & St. Andrews Bay Railway Company and certain other carriers designated in list A attached hereto and make a part hereof, and certain of their employees represented by the fifteen cooperating railway 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 of three members, to be appointed by me, to investigate the said disputes. Each of the carriers involved shall be given independent consideration in such investigation, and the said labor organizations shall be permitted to function as a unit in proceedings before the board. No member of the said board shall be pecuniarily or otherwise interested in any organization of railway employees or any carrier. The board shall report its findings to the President with respect to the said disputes within thirty days from the date of this order. The report of the board shall contain separate and independent findings with respect to each of the carriers involved. 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 any of the carriers involved or their employees in the conditions out of which the said disputes arose. LIST A Atlanta & St. Andrews Bay Railway Company Atlantic & East Carolina Railway Company Barre & Chelsea Railroad Company Belfast & Moosehead Lake Railroad Company Berlin Mills Railway Company Columbus & Greenville Railway Company East Tennessee & Western No. Carolina Railroad Ft. Dodge, Des Moines & Southern Railway Georgia & Florida Railroad Company Lackawanna & Wyoming Valley Railroad Company Lake Champlain & Moriah Railroad Company Macon, Dublin & Savannah Railroad Company Midland Terminal Railway Company Missouri & Arkansas Railway Company New York, Ontario & Western Railway Company Port Utilities Commission Quanah, Acme & Pacific Railway Company Rapid City, Black Hills & Western Railroad Company Rio Grande Southern Railroad Rutland Railroad Company St. Johnsbury & Lake Champlain Railroad Toledo, Peoria & Western Railroad Wichita Falls & Southern Railroad Company LIST B International Association of Machinists International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron Ship Builders and Helpers of America International Brotherhood of Blacksmiths, Drop Forgers and Helpers Sheet Metal Workers' International Association International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Brotherhood of Railway Carmen of America International Brotherhood of Firemen, Oilers, Roundhouse and Railway Shop Laborers Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers, Express and Station Employees Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees The Order of Railroad Telegraphers Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen of America National Organization of Master, Mates & Pilots of America International Longshoremen's Association Hotel and Restaurant Employees' International Alliance and Bartenders' Int. League of America HARRY S. TRUMAN THE WHITE HOUSE, October 25, 1946