Official Document Text
Source: The American Presidency Project (UCSB Archive)
WHEREAS disputes exist between the Akron & Barberton Belt Railroad and other carriers represented by the Eastern, Western and Southeastern Carriers' Conference Committees, designated in list attached hereto and made a part hereof, and certain of their employees represented by the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, 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 the said disputes. 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 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 Akron & Barberton Belt Railroad Company and other carriers represented by the Eastern, Western and Southeastern Carriers' Conference Committees or their employees in the conditions out of which the said disputes arose. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER THE WHITE HOUSE, December 22, 1956. EASTERN RAILROADS Akron & Barberton Belt Railroad Company Akron, Canton & Youngstown Railroad Co. Ann Arbor Railroad Co. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co. Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh Territory Buffalo and Susquehanna District Baltimore & Ohio Chicago Terminal Railroad Co. Curtis Bay Railroad Staten Island Rapid Transit Railway Co. Bessemer & Lake Erie Railroad Co. Boston & Maine Railroad Co. Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal Bush Terminal Railroad Canadian National Railways Canadian National Lines in New England Canadian National Railways in the State of New York United States & Canada Railroad Champlain & St. Lawrence Railroad St. Clair Tunnel Company Central Railroad Company of New Jersey New York & Long Branch Railroad Co. Central Vermont Railway, Inc. Chicago Union Station Co. Cincinnati Union Terminal Co. Cuyahoga Valley Railway Co. Delaware & Hudson Railroad Corp. Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad Co. Detroit and Toledo Shore Line Railroad Co. Detroit Terminal Railroad Co. Detroit, Toledo & Ironton Railroad Co. Donora Southern Railroad Co. Erie Railroad Co. Grand Trunk Western Railroad Co. Hoboken Shore Railroad Lake Terminal Railroad Co. Lehigh & New England Railroad Co. Lehigh Valley Railroad Co. Long Island Railroad Co. Maine Central Railroad Co. Portland Terminal Co. McKeesport Connecting Railroad Co. Monon Railroad Monongahela Railway Co. Newburgh & South Shore Railway Co. New York Central System New York Central Railroad Co. Eastern District (excl. Boston Division) Boston Division Western District Ohio Central Division Northern District Southern District L & J B & R R Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad Co. Chicago River & Indiana Railroad Co. Chicago Junction Railway Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad Co. Lake Erie & Eastern Railroad Co. Cleveland Union Terminals Co. New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad Co. New York Dock Railway Co. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Co. New York, Susquehanna & Western Railroad Co. Pennsylvania Railroad Co. Baltimore & Eastern Railroad Co. Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines Pittsburgh, Chartiers & Youghiogheny Railway Co. Reading Company River Terminal Railway Co. Toledo Terminal Railroad Co. Union Railroad Co. Upper Merion & Plymouth Railroad Co. Washington Terminal Company Western Maryland Railway Co. Youngstown & Northern Railroad Co. WESTERN RAILROADS Alton and Southern Railroad Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway The Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway Panhandle and Santa Fe Railway Belt Railway Co., of Chicago, The Camas Prairie Railroad Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad Chicago & Illinois Midland Railway Chicago and North Western Railway Chicago and Western Indiana Railroad Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Chicago, Great Western Railway Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railway Colorado and Southern Railway, The Colorado and Wyoming Railway, The Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad, The Des Moines Union Railway Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic Railroad Duluth Union Depot and Transfer Co. Duluth, Winnipeg & Pacific Railway East St. Louis Junction Railroad Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway Fort Worth and Denver Railway Joint Texas Division of CRI&P Railroad & FtW&D Railway Galveston, Houston and Henderson Railroad Great Northern Railway Green Bay and Western Railroad Kewaunee, Green Bay and Western Railroad Houston Belt & Terminal Railway Illinois Central Railroad Chicago and Illinois Western Railroad Illinois Northern Railway Illinois Terminal Railroad Kansas City Southern Railway, The Kansas City Terminal Railway King Street Passenger Station (Seattle) Litchfield and Madison Railway Los Angeles Junction Louisiana & Arkansas Railway Manufacturers Railway Midland Valley Railroad Kansas, Oklahoma & Gulf Railway Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway, The Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railroad Minnesota Transfer Railway, The Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Co. of Texas Missouri Pacific Railroad Missouri Pacific Railroad (Gulf District) Missouri-Illinois Railroad Northern Pacific Railway Northwestern Pacific Railroad Ogden Union Railway and Depot Co., The Peoria and Pekin Union Railway Port Terminal Railroad Association St. Joseph Terminal Railroad St. Louis-San Francisco Railway St. Louis, San Francisco & Texas Railway St. Louis Southwestern Railway San Diego & Arizona Eastern Railway Southern Pacific Co. (Pac. Lines) (Excl. Former El Paso & Southwestern System) Southern Pacific Co. (Pac. Lines) (Former El Paso & Southwestern System) Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway Oregon Trunk Railway Oregon Electric Railway Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis Texas and New Orleans Railroad Texas and Pacific Railway, The Abilene and Southern Railway Fort Worth Belt Railway Texas-New Mexico Railway Texas Short Line Railway Weatherford, Mineral Wells and Northwestern Railway Texas Mexican Railway, The TP-MP Terminal of New Orleans Toledo, Peoria & Western Railroad Union Pacific Railroad Union Railway Co. (Memphis) Union Terminal Co. (Dallas) Wabash Railroad--Lines West of Detroit Wabash Railroad--Lines East of Detroit Western Pacific Railroad SOUTHEASTERN RAILROADS Atlanta & West Point Western Railway of Alabama Atlanta Joint Terminals Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Birmingham Southern Railroad Central of Georgia Railway Charleston & Western Carolina Railway Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Clinchfield Railroad Florida East Coast Railway (In trusteeship. Any commitment subject to court approval) Georgia Railroad Gulf, Mobile & Ohio Railroad Jacksonville Terminal Company Kentucky & Indiana Terminal Railroad Louisville & Nashville Railroad Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway Norfolk & Portsmouth Belt Line Norfolk & Western Railway Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac Railroad Potomac Yard Seaboard Air Line Railway Company Southern Railway Alabama Great Southern Railway Company Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific Railway Georgia Southern & Florida Railway Harriman & Northeastern Railroad Company New Orleans & Northeastern Railroad New Orleans Terminal Company St. Johns River Terminal Company (Includes State University R. R. and East St. Louis Terminal) Tennessee Central Railway Company Virginian Railway Company