Official Document Text
Source: The American Presidency Project (UCSB Archive)
WHEREAS disputes exist between the carriers represented by the Eastern, Western and Southeastern Carriers' Conference Committees, designated in List A attached hereto and made a part hereof, and certain of their employees represented by the Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen, 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 these disputes. 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 findings to the President with respect to the 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 carriers represented by the Eastern, Western and Southeastern Carriers' Conference Committees, or by their employees, in the conditions out of which the disputes arose. LYNDON B. JOHNSON The White House, January 3, 1964. List A EASTERN RAILROADS Akron, Canton & Youngstown Railroad Ann Arbor Railroad Company Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company B. & O. Chicago Terminal Railroad Company Staten Island Rapid Transit Railway Company Bangor & Aroostook Railroad Bessemer & Lake Erie Railroad Company Boston & Maine Railroad Canadian National Railways (New England States) Canadian Pacific Railway Company (Maine and Vermont) Central R.R. Company of New Jersey New York & Long Branch Railroad Central Vermont Railway, Inc. Cincinnati Union Terminal Company Dayton Union Railway Company Delaware & Hudson Railroad Corporation Detroit & Toledo Shore Line Railroad Company Detroit Terminal Railroad Company Detroit, Toledo & Ironton Railroad Company Erie-Lackawanna Railroad Company Grand Trunk Western Railroad Company Indianapolis Union Railway Company Lehigh & Hudson River Railway Company Lehigh Valley Railroad Company Long Island Rail Road Company Maine Central Railroad Company Portland Terminal Company Monon Railroad Company Monongahela Railway Company New York Central System New York District (Inc. Grand Central Terminal) (Lines East) Eastern District (Including B. & A. Division) (Lines East) Western District (Lines West) Cleveland Union Terminals Co. Northern District (Michigan Central) Southern District (C.C.C. & St. L.) Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad Company Troy Union R.R. Company New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad Company New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company Boston Terminal Company New York, Susquehanna & Western Railroad Company Pennsylvania Railroad Company Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines Pittsburgh & West Virginia Railway Company Port Authority Trans-Hudson Corporation Reading Company Washington Terminal Company Western Maryland Railway Company WESTERN RAILROADS Alton & Southern Railroad Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Panhandle & Santa Fe Railway Belt Railway Company of Chicago Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad Chicago & Illinois Midland Railway Chicago & North Western Railway Company (Inc. C. St. P. M. & O.) Chicago & Western Indiana Railroad Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Chicago Great Western Railway Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad Colorado & Southern Railway Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad Denver Union Terminal Railway Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway Ft. Worth & Denver Railway Galveston, Houston & Henderson Railroad Great Northern Railway Green Bay & Western Railroad Kewaunee, Green Bay & Western Railroad Houston Belt & Terminal Railway Illinois Central Railroad Paducah & Illinois Railroad Joint Texas Division of C.R.I.&P. Railroad and Ft.W.&D. Ry. Kansas City Southern Railway Louisiana & Arkansas Railway Kansas City Terminal Railway Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Company Missouri Pacific Railroad Southern & Western Districts Gulf District Union Railway (Memphis) Northern Pacific Railway Pacific Electric Railway Peoria & Pekin Union Railway St. Louis-San Francisco Railway St. Louis, San Francisco & Texas Railway St Louis Southwestern Railway Soo Line Railroad Southern Pacific Company (Pacific Lines) Southern Pacific Company—Texas and Louisiana Lines (T. & N.O.) Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway Oregon Electric Railway Oregon Trunk Railway Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis Texas & Pacific Railway Texas Pacific-Missouri Pacific Terminal Railroad of New Orleans Toledo, Peoria & Western Railroad Union Pacific Railroad Union Terminal Company (Dallas) Wabash Railroad Western Pacific Railroad SOUTHEASTERN RAILROADS Atlanta & West Point R.R. Company Western Railway of Alabama Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Birmingham Terminal Company Chattanooga Station Company Central of Georgia Railway Company Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Company Clinchfleld Rail Road Company Florida East Coast Railway Georgia Railroad Gulf, Mobile & Ohio Railroad Company Jacksonville Terminal Company Kentucky & Indiana Terminal Railroad Eouisville & Nashville Railroad Norfolk & Western Railway Company Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac Railroad Company Seaboard Air Line Railroad Southern Railway Alabama Great Southern Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific Georgia Southern & Florida Harriman & Northeastern New Orleans & Northeastern New Orleans Terminal Company St. Johns River Terminal Company