Official Document Text
Source: The American Presidency Project (UCSB Archive)
WHEREAS disputes exist between the Texas & Pacific Railway Company and its subsidiaries, including the Fort Worth Belt Railway Company and the Texas Pacific-Missouri Pacific Terminal Railroad of New Orleans, carriers, and certain of their employees represented by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, Order of Railway Conductors and Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, labor organizations; 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 within several States to a degree such as to deprive a large portion 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 the said disputes. 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. 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 Texas & Pacific Railway Company or its subsidiaries, including the Fort Worth Belt Railway Company and the Texas Pacific-Missouri Pacific Terminal Railroad of New Orleans, or by their employees, in the conditions out of which the said disputes arose. HARRY S. TRUMAN THE WHITE HOUSE, February 10, 1950