Executive Order 9672

By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and Statutes, including Title I of the First War Powers Act, 1941, and the Stabilization Act of 1942, as amended, and as President of the United States, it is hereby ordered as follows:

 

The Board shall have all the present powers, functions, and responsibilities of the National War Labor Board (established by Executive Order No. 9017 of January 12, 1942, and transferred to the Department of Labor by Executive Order No. 9617 of September 19, 1945 relating to the stabilization of wages and salaries for the purpose of carrying out the objectives authorized and directed by the Emergency Price Control Act of 1942, as amended, and the Stabilization Act of 1942, as amended, in accordance with the policies and procedures provided by Executive orders and regulations issued pursuant to these Acts. The Wage Adjustment Board for the building and construction industry shall continue to perform its present functions with respect to the stabilization of wages and salaries in the building and construction industry.

Any dispute cases on which final action may not have been taken by the national War Labor Board prior to its termination shall be returned by said board to the parties. The Board shall have all the powers, functions and responsibilities of the National War Labor Board relating to the disposition of dispute cases for the following purposes only:

The personnel, records, property, funds, and outstanding obligations of the National War Labor Board are hereby transferred to the National Wage Stabilization Board in the Department of Labor and the National War Labor Board is hereby terminated.

This order shall be deemed an amendment of and substitution for paragraph 2(b) of Executive Order No. 9617 of September 19, 1945. All other provisions of that order, to the extent consistent herewith, are hereby ratified and confirmed. All provisions of prior Executive orders in conflict with this order are amended accordingly. The present effective rules, regulations, procedures, and orders of the National War Labor Board relating to any function vested in the national Wage Stabilization Board by this order shall continue to be effective in accordance with their terms except as they may be inconsistent with this order or be modified or revoked from time to time by the Board. Any matter relating to the functions transferred by this order and now pending before the National War Labor Board may be acted upon by the National Wage stabilization Board with the same validity and effect as through such action had been taken by the National War Labor Board.

, December 31, 1945.