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Executive Order 11486—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 Employees' Conference Committee composed of 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 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 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.
Richard Nixon
THE WHITE HOUSE,
October 3, 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
Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad Company
Boston and Maine Corporation
Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal
Buffalo Creek Railroad
Canadian National Railways--
Great Lakes Region--Lines in the United States
St. Lawrence Region--Lines in the United States
Canadian Pacific Railway
Central Railroad Company of New Jersey
Central Vermont Railway, Inc.
Chicago River & Indiana Railroad
Chicago South Shore and South Bend Railroad
Chicago Union Station Company
Cincinnati Union Terminal Company
Cleveland Union Terminals Company
Delaware and Hudson Railway Company
Detroit and Toledo Shore Line Railroad Company
Detroit Terminal Railroad Company
Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railroad
Erie Lackawanna Railway
Grand Trunk Western Railroad
Indianapolis Union Railway Company
Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad
Lehigh & Hudson River Railway Company
Lehigh and New England Railway Company
Lehigh Valley Railroad
Maine Central Railroad Company
Portland Terminal Company
Monongahela Railway
Monon Railroad
Montour Railroad
Newburgh and South Shore Railway Company
New York and Long Branch Railroad Company
New York Dock Railway
New York, Susquehanna and Western Railroad
Norfolk and Western Railway
Penn Central Company
Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines
Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad, including
Lake Erie and Eastern Railroad
Reading Company
Philadelphia, Reading and Pottsville Telegraph Company
River Terminal Railway
Toledo Terminal Railroad Company
Washington Terminal Company
Western Maryland Railway Company
WESTERN RAILROADS
Alton & Southern Railway
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company
Belt Railway Company of Chicago
Butte, Anaconda & Pacific Railway
Camas Prairie Railroad
Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad
Chicago & Illinois Midland Railway Company
Chicago and North Western Railway Company
Chicago & Western Indiana Railroad Company
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad
Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad Company
Chicago, West Pullman & Southern Railroad Company
Colorado and Southern Railway
Colorado & Wyoming Railway
Davenport, Rock Island and North Western Railway Company
Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company
Des Moines Union Railway
Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway
Duluth Union Depot & Transfer Company
Duluth, Winnipeg & Pacific Railway Company
Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway Company
Fort Worth and Denver Railway Company
Galveston, Houston and Henderson Railroad Company
Great Northern Railway
Green Bay & Western Railroad
Houston Belt & Terminal Railway Company
Illinois Central Railroad (including the Chicago and Illinois Western and Paducah and Illinois Railroads)
Illinois Northern Railway
Illinois Terminal Railroad
Joint Texas Division of CRI&P-FW&D Railway
Kansas City Southern Railway Company
Kansas City Terminal Railway Company
Lake Superior Terminal & Transfer Railway
Los Angeles Junction Railway Company
Louisiana & Arkansas Railway Company
Manufacturers Railway
Minneapolis, Northfield and Southern Railway
Minnesota Transfer Railway
Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Company
Missouri Pacific Railroad (Including Gulf District) Missouri-Illinois Railroad
Norfolk and Western Railway Company
Northern Pacific Railway
Northwestern Pacific Railroad Company
Peoria and Pekin Union Railway Company
Portland Terminal Railroad Company
Port Terminal Railroad Association
St. Louis-San Francisco Railway
St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company
Saint Paul Union Depot Company
San Diego and Arizona Eastern Railway Company
Sioux City Terminal Railway Company
Soo Line Railroad
Southern Pacific Company (Pacific Lines and Texas and Louisiana Lines)
South Omaha Terminal Railway Company
Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway Company (System Lines)
Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis
Texas & Pacific Railway
Fort Worth Belt Railway
Kansas, Oklahoma & Gulf Railway
Weatherford, Mineral Wells & Northwestern Railway
Texas Mexican Railway Company
Texas Pacific-Missouri Pacific Terminal Railroad of New Orleans
Toledo, Peoria & Western Railroad
Union Pacific Railroad Company
Union Terminal Company (Dallas)
Western Pacific Railroad Company
Yakima Valley Transportation Company
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
Kentucky & Indiana Terminal Railroad
Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company
New Orleans Public Belt Railroad
Norfolk and Portsmouth Belt Line Railroad
Norfolk and Western Railway Company
Norfolk Southern Railway
Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad Company
(Including Potomac Yard)
Seaboard Coast Line Railroad
Southern Railway Company
The Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railway Company
The Alabama Great Southern Railroad Company
New Orleans and Northeastern Railroad Company
The New Orleans Terminal Company
Georgia Southern and Florida Railway Company
St. Johns River Terminal Company
Harriman and Northeastern Railroad Company
LIST B
International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers
Sheet Metal Workers' International Association
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron Ship Builders, Blacksmiths, Forgers and Helpers
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