Executive Order 9663 Constitutional Neutral (+0.02)

Executive Order 9663—Creating An Emergency Board to Investigate a Dispute Between the Texas & New Orleans Railway Company and Hospital Association of the Southern Pacific Lines in Texas and Lousiana, and Certain of Its Employees

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Friday, November 30, 1945

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2 min read (327 words)

Plain-English Translation & Framers' Constitutional Analysis

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This executive order, signed by President Harry S Truman on 1945-11-30, establishes federal administrative policy concerning "Creating An Emergency Board to Investigate a Dispute Between the Texas & New Orleans Railway Company and Hospital Association of the Southern Pacific Lines in Texas and Lousiana, and Certain of Its Employees." It outlines operative directives for executive department officers, delegating enforcement responsibilities and establishing official governance guidelines.

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 said dispute.

▪ 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 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 the Texas & New Orleans Railway Company and Hospital Association of the Southern Pacific Lines in Texas and Louisiana 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

327

2,119 characters

Estimated Read Time

2 min

@ 200 words / min

Flesch-Kincaid

27.4

Post-Grad reading level

Constitutional Polarity

+0.02

Framers' Alignment index

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Scholarly & Legal Citations

Exec. Order No. 9663, Harry S Truman (Nov 30, 1945). Available at https://executiveordersarchive.org/orders/app-executive-order-9663-creating-emergency-board-investigate-dispute-between-the-texas-new.

Official Document Text

Source: The American Presidency Project (UCSB Archive)

Original Source →

WHEREAS a dispute exists between the Texas & New Orleans Railway Company and Hospital Association of the Southern Pacific Lines in Texas and Louisiana, a carrier, and certain of its employees represented by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen The Order of Railroad Telegraphers Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers, Express and Station Employees Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees Brotherhood Railway Carmen of America International Association of Machinists International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron Ship Builders and Helpers of America Sheet Metal Workers International Association International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers International Brotherhood of Firemen and Oilers, Helpers, Roundhouse and Railway Shop Laborers, and Brotherhood of Railway Signalmen of America, labor organizations; and WHEREAS, this dispute, in the judgment of the National Mediation Board, threatens substantially to interrupt interstate commerce within the states of Texas and Louisiana to a degree such as to deprive that 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 said dispute. 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 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 the Texas & New Orleans Railway Company and Hospital Association of the Southern Pacific Lines in Texas and Louisiana or their employees in the conditions out of which the said dispute arose. HARRY S. TRUMAN THE WHITE HOUSE, November 30, 1945