Digitized from Box 15 of the White House Press- Releases at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 2, 1975 Office of the White House Press Secretary

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EXECUTIVE ORDER

CREATING AN EMERGENCY BOARD TO INVESTIGATE A DISPUTE BETWEEN THE CARRIERS Rl::":PRESENTED BY THE LABOR COi~FERENCE AND CERTAIN OF THEIR EMPLOYEES

A dispute exists between the carriers represented by the National Railway Labor Conference, designated in lists attached hereto and made a part hereof, and certain of their employees represented by the Railway Employes' Department, AFL-CIO; International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron Ship Builders, Blacksmiths, Forgers & Helpers; Brotherhood Railway Carmen of and ; International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and the International Brotherhood of Firemen & Oilers, This dispute has not heretofore been adjusted under the provisions of the Railway Labor Act, as amended, and This dispute,) in the judgment of the National Ivlediation Board, threatens substantially to interrupt interstate commerce to a degree such as to deprive a section of 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 this dispute. 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 finding to the President with respect to the dispute within 30 days from the date of this Order. As provided by Section 10 of the Railway Labor Act, as amended, from this date and for 30 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 dispute arose.

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THE WHITE HOUSE ~eptember 2, 1975 - 2 RAILROADS REPRESENTED BY THE NATIONAL RAILWAY LABOR CONFERENCE

Akron, Canton & Youngstown Railroad Company Alton & Company *Ann Arbor Railroad Company Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company Atlanta and West Point Rail Road Company, The Western Railway of Alabama Atlanta Joint Terminals and Railroad Company, including The Staten Island Railroad Corporation Baltimore and Ohio Terminal Railroad Company Bangor and Aroostook Railroad Company Belt Railway Company of Chicago @Bessemer and Railroad Company * and Maine Corporation Burlington Northern Inc. Butte, Anaconda & Pacific Railway Company Camas Prairie Railroad Company Canadian National Railways ­ Region, Lines in the United States St. Lawrence Region, Lines in the United States #Canadian Pacific Limited Central of Georgia Railroad Company *Central Railroad Company of and Long Branch Railroad Company Central Railway, Inc. Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company Chicago & Eastern Railroad Chicago & Illinois Midland Railway Company Chicago and North Western Transportation Company Chicago and western Railroad Company Chicago, , St. Paul and Pacific Railroad Company Chicago River and Indiana Railroad Company 'Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company Chicago South Shore and South Bend Railroad Chicago Union Station Company Chicago, West Pullman and Southern Railroad Company Union Terminals Company Company Colorado & Wyoming Railway Company Davenport, Rock Island and North Western Railway Company Dayton Union Railway Company and Hudson Railway Company Denver and Western Railroad Company Des Moines Union Railway Company Detroit and Toledo Shore Line Railroad #Detroit & Mackinac Railway Detroit, Toledo & Company @Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway Company Duluth, Winnipeg & Pacific Railway Company Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway Company ' Company Fort Worth and Denver Railway Company Georgia Railroad Grand Trunk Western Railroad Company Green Bay and Western Railroad Company Houston Belt & Terminal Railway Company more - 3 Illinois Central Gulf Railroad Company Illinois Terminal Railroad Company Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad Company Indianapolis Union Railway Company Jacksonville Terminal Company Joint Division of the CRI&P RR. and FW&D Ry. Kansas City Southern Railway Company Kansas City Terminal Railway Company Kentucky & Indiana Terminal Railroad Company #Lake Superior and Ishpeming Railroad Lake Superior Terminal and Transfer Railway Company ·Lehigh and Railway Company Lehigh and Railway · Railroad Los Angeles Junction Railway Company Louisiana & Arkansas Railway Company Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company Maine Central Railroad Company Portland Terminal Company I'4anufacturers Railway Company #Merchants Despatch Transportation Company Minneapolis, Northfield. and Southern Railway Minnesota Transfer Railway Company Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Company Missouri Pacific Railroad Company Missouri-Illinois'Railroad Company Company rllontour Railroad' Company @Newburgh and South Shore Railway Company New Orleans Public Belt Railroad New Orleans U~ion Passenger Terminal Mew York, Susquehanna and Western Railroad Company Norfolk and Portsmouth Belt Line Railroad Company Norfolk and Western Railway Company @Northampton and Bath Railroad Company Northwestern Pacific Railroad Company *·Penn Central Transportation Company -Reading Seashore Lines Peoria and Pekin Union Railway Company and Lake Company Portland Terminal Railroad Company Port Terminal Railroad Association Quanah, Acme and Pacific Railway Company * @ - ~ Reading & Pottsville Telegraph Company Richmond~ Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad Company River Terminal Railway Company St. Joseph Terminal Railroad Company St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Company St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company Saint Paul Union Depot Company San Diego and Eastern Railway Company Seaboard Coast Line Railroad Company Company Southern Pacific Transportation Company ­ Pacific Lines and Texas and Louisiana Lines Southern Railway Company Alabama Great Southern Railroad Company Cincinnati~ New Orleans & Texas Pacific Railway Company Georgia Southern and Florida Railway Company New Orleans Terminal Company St. Johns River Terminal Company more 4 Staten Island Railroad Corporation Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis Texas and Pacific Railway Company Company Texas Pacific-Missouri Pacific Terminal Railroad of New Orleans Toledo, Peoria and Western Railroad Company Toledo Terminal Railroad Company Union Depot Company, Columbus, Ohio Company Union Terminal Railway-St. Joseph Belt Railway Washington Terminal Company Western Railway Company Company #Yakima Valley Transportation Company @Youngstown and Northern Railroad Company

NOTES: * - Subject to the approval of the Courts. ** - Subject to the approval of the Trustees of the Property and to the approval of the Courts. The Trustees have approved. # - Authorization covers negotiation of the organizations' Aug. 1, 1974 notice, only. @- Authorization covers negotiation of the organizations' separate notices dated July 1, 1974, only.

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