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 1732 February 1. 1934. PROCLAMATIQXS, 1934. EMERGENCY BOARD, DENVER & RIO GRANDE WESTERN RAILROAD COMPANy-EMPLOYEES BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION La~r~tPu~'a; WHEREAS the President, having been duly notified by the Board tJ!stern °Rallroa.d of :Mediation that disputes between the Denver & Rio Grande Western ~('=~IO.certam Railroad Company, a carrier, and certain of its employees represented Preamble. by Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers; Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen; Order of Railway Conductors; Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen; which disputes have not been heretofore adjusted under the provi- sions of the Railway Labor Act, now threaten substantially to inter- rupt interstate commerce within the States of Utah, Colorado and New Mexico, to a degree such as to deprive that section of the country of essential transportation service; Emergencr b~ard NOW THEREFORE I FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Presi- «eater! to mvestlgate '. " •. ' and report thereon. dent of the Umted States of Amenca, by vIrtue of the power vested Vol. 44. p. t.lI6. in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States, and by virtue of and under the authority in me vested by Section 10 of the Railway Labor Act, do hereby create a board to be composed of three (3) persons not pecuniarily or otherwise interested in any organization of CompenMtion. etc. Ante. p. J2. railway employees or any carrier, to investigate and report their findings to me within 30 days from this date. The members of this board sha~l be comp(}Ilsated for and on account of such duties in the sum of fifty ($50.00) dollars for every day actually employed with or upon account of travel and duties incident to such board, from which will be deducted fifteen per cent. (15%) as provided in Public No.2, 73d Congress, Approved March 20, 1933. The Reimbursement (or members will be reimbursed for and they are hereby authorized to u~of.77. p. 401. make expenditures for expenses for themselves and of the board, including traveling expenses and in conformity with Public No. 212, Funds available. Ante. p. 2!§iJ. 72d Congress, Approved June 30, 1932, 11::30 a.m., not to exceed five ($5.00) dollars per diem for expenses incurred for subsistence. All expenditures of the board shall be allowed and paid for out of the appropriation" emergency Boards, Railway Lahor Act, May 20, 1926, 1934" on the presentation of itemized vouchers properly approved ~ the chairman of the board hereby created. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set lIly hand ftlld caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington this first day of February in the year of our Lord nineteen h~mdr~d and thirty-four, and of [SEAL] the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and fifty-eighth. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President. CORDELL HULL Secretary oj State. [Xo.2073]