Executive Order 10578—Creating an Emergency Board To Investigate a Dispute Between Certain Carriers Represented by the Eastern, Western, and Southeastern Carriers' Conference Committees and Certain of Their Employees

WHEREAS a dispute exists between certain carriers represented by the Eastern, Western, and Southeastern Carriers' Conference Committees which are 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 this dispute has not heretofore been adjusted under the provisions of the Railway Labor Act, as amended; and WHEREAS this dispute, in the judgment of the National Mediation Board, threatens 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 dispute. No member of the said board shall be pecuniarily or otherwise interested in any organization of employees or any carrier. The board shall report its findings to the President with respect to the said dispute 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 any of the carriers involved or their employees in the conditions out of which the said dispute arose. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER THE WHITE HOUSE, November 23, 1954. LIST A EASTERN REGION Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company: Staten Island Rapid Transit Railway Company Central Railroad Company of New Jersey Central Vermont Railway, Inc. Chicago Indianapolis & Louisville Railway Delaware and Hudson Railroad Corporation Detroit and Toledo Shore Line Railroad Grand Trunk Western Railroad Company Lehigh and New England Railroad Company Lehigh Valley Railroad Company Monongahela Connecting Railroad Company New York Central System: New York Central Railroad—Buffalo & East New York Central Railroad—West of Buffalo Ohio Central Division Michigan Central Railroad Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Peoria & Eastern Railway Boston & Albany Railroad Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad Company Wheeling and Lake Erie District Pittsburgh & West Virginia Railway Company Reading Company WESTERN REGION Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway: Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway Panhandle & Santa Fe Railway Camas Prairie Railroad Company Chicago & North Western Railway Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Chicago Great Western Railway Company Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad Company: Joint Texas Division of CRI&P RR and Ft. W&D Ry. Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway Fort Worth and Denver Railway Great Northern Railway Company Gulf Coast Lines: Asherton & Gulf Railway Asphalt Belt Railway Beaumont, Sour Lake, & Western Railway Houston & Brazos Valley Railway Houston North Shore Railway Iberia, St. Mary and Eastern Railroad New Iberia & Northern Railroad New Orleans, Texas & Mexico Railway Orange & Northwestern Railroad Rio Grande City Railway St. Louis, Brownsville & Mexico Railway San Antonio Southern Railway San Antonio, Uvalde & Gulf Railroad San Benito & Rio Grande Valley Railway Sugar Land Railway Illinois Central Railroad Company International-Great Northern Railroad Kansas City Southern Railway: Arkansas Western Railway Kansas, Oklahoma & Gulf Railway Oklahoma City-Ada-Atoka Railway Louisiana & Arkansas Railway Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway Company Minneapolis, St. Paul & Saulte Ste. Marie Railroad Co. Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Company: Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Company of Texas Missouri Pacific Railroad Company: Missouri-Illinois Railroad Northern Pacific Railway Company Northwestern Pacific Railroad Oregon, California & Eastern Railway Company St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Company: St. Louis, San Francisco and Texas Railway San Diego & Arizona Eastern Railway Southern Pacific Company (Pacific Lines) (Excluding former El Paso & Southwestern System) Southern Pacific Company (Pacific Lines) (Former El Paso & Southwestern System) Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway Oregon Electric Railway Oregon Trunk Railway Texas and New Orleans Railroad Texas and Pacific Railway Abilene and Southern Railway Texas-New Mexico Railway Texas Short Line Railway Weatherford Mineral Wells & Northwestern Railway Union Pacific Railroad Wabash Railroad—Lines West of Detroit Western Pacific Railroad SOUTHEASTERN REGION Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Atlanta & West Point: Western Railway of Alabama Central of Georgia Railway Charleston & Western Carolina Railway Chesapeake & Ohio Railway (Includes Pere Marquette District) Florida East Coast Railway Georgia Railroad Gulf, Mobile & Ohio Railroad Louisville & Nashville Railroad Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway Norfolk Southern Railway Company Norfolk & Western Railway Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac Railroad Seaboard Air Line Railway Company Southern Railway (Includes State University Railroad) Alabama Great Southern Railway Company (Includes Woodstock and Blocton Railway) Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific Railway Georgia Southern & Florida Railway Harriman & N.3rtheastern Railroad Company New Orleans & Northeastern Railroad Tennessee Central Railway Company Virginian Railway Company