Executive Order 11443—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 Order of Railway Conductors and Brakemen, 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

Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company (Including former BR&P territory and Strouds Creek and Muddlety Railroad)

Central Railroad Company of New Jersey

Delaware and Hudson Railroad Corporation

Detroit and Toledo Shore Line Railroad Company Grand Trunk Western Railroad

Lehigh and New England Railway Company

Lehigh Valley Railroad

Maine Central Railroad Company

Monongahela Railway

Monon Railroad

New York, Susquehanna and Western Railroad

Norfolk and Western Railway Company (Lines of Former New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad Company)

Penn Central Company (Formerly New York Central Railroad Company)

Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad, including Lake Erie and Eastern Railroad

Reading Company

WESTERN RAILROADS

Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company

Camas Prairie Railroad

Chicago and North Western Railway Company

Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad

Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad Company (System)

Colorado and Southern Railway

Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company

Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway Company

Great Northern Railway Company

Illinois Central Railroad

Joint Texas Division of CRI&P–FW&D Railway Company

Kansas City Southern Railway Company

Louisiana & Arkansas Railway Company

Kansas, Oklahoma & Gulf Railway Company

Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Company

Missouri Pacific Railroad Company

Missouri-Illinois Railroad Company

Norfolk and Western Railway (Lines formerly operated by the Wabash Railroad), Lines West of Detroit.

Northern Pacific Railway

Northwestern Pacific Railroad Company

Oregon, California & Eastern Railway Company

Pacific Coast Railroad Company

St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Company (Except NEO District)

San Diego and Arizona Eastern Railway Company

Soo Line Railroad

Southern Pacific Company

Pacific Lines

Texas and Louisiana Lines

Spokane International Railroad Company

Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway Company (System Lines)

Texas and Pacific Railway Company

Union Pacific Railroad Company

Western Pacific Railroad Company

SOUTHEASTERN RAILROADS

Central of Georgia Railway Company

Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company

Clinchfield Railroad Company

Georgia Railroad

Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad

Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company

Norfolk and Western Railway Company (Atlantic and Pocahontas Regions)

Norfolk Southern Railway

Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad Company (including Potomac Yard)

Seaboard Coast Line Railroad Company

Southern Railway Company

Alabama Great Southern Railroad Company

Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railway Company

Georgia Southern & Florida Railway Company

New Orleans & Northeastern Railroad Company