Executive Order 10757 Constitutional Neutral (+0.02)
Executive Order 10757—Creating an Emergency Board To Investigate a Dispute Between Eastern Air Lines, Inc., Trans World Airlines, Inc., United Air Lines, Inc., Northwest Airlines, Inc., Northeast Airlines, Inc., Capital Airlines, Inc., and National Airlines, Inc., and Certain of Their Employees
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This executive order, signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower on 1958-02-27, establishes federal administrative policy concerning "Creating an Emergency Board To Investigate a Dispute Between Eastern Air Lines, Inc., Trans World Airlines, Inc., United Air Lines, Inc., Northwest Airlines, Inc., Northeast Airlines, Inc., Capital Airlines, Inc., and National Airlines, Inc., and Certain of Their Employees." It is a direct, concise executive instruction delivering focused administrative or military commands to department leadership.
Constitutional Assessment: This action represents an orderly exercise of Article II administrative discretion, managing the internal machinery and personnel of the executive branch without abridging the ancient liberties of the people.
Key Directives & Operative Actions
▪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 said carriers or their employees in the conditions out of which the said dispute arose.
Constitutional & Societal Entities Impacted
🏛️ Executive Branch Departments
🏛️ General Body of the People
Total Words
249
1,515 characters
Estimated Read Time
1 min
@ 200 words / min
Flesch-Kincaid
11.2
Post-Grad reading level
Constitutional Polarity
+0.02
Framers' Alignment index
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Scholarly & Legal Citations
Exec. Order No. 10757, Dwight D. Eisenhower (Feb 27, 1958). Available at https://executiveordersarchive.org/orders/app-executive-order-10757-creating-emergency-board-investigate-dispute-between-eastern-air.
Official Document Text
Source: The American Presidency Project (UCSB Archive)
WHEREAS a dispute exists between Eastern Air Lines, Inc., Trans World Airlines, Inc., United Air Lines, Inc., Northwest Airlines, Inc., Northeast Airlines, Inc., Capital Airlines, Inc., and National Airlines, Inc., carriers, and certain of their employees represented by the International Association of Machinists, 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 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 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 said carriers or their employees in the conditions out of which the said dispute arose. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER THE WHITE HOUSE, February 27, 1958.
