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 1638 PROCLAMATIONS-MAY 2, 9, 1941 LDD STAT. Designationof May NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, Presi- 141 National Maritime Day. dent of the United States of America, do hereby call upon the people of the United States to observe May 22, 1941, as National Maritime Day by displaying the flag at their homes or other suitable places and do direct that the flag belikewise displayed on all Government build- ings on that day. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed. DONE at the City of Washington this 2d day of May, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-one, and of the [SEAL] Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-fifth. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President: CORDELL HULL Secretary of State. EMERGENCY BOARD DULUTH, MISSABE AND IRON RANGE RAILWAY; CHICAGO AND NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY; GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY; MINNEAPOLIS, ST. PAUL AND SAULT STE. MARIE RAIL- WAY-EMPLOYEES May 9, 1941 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA [No. 2481] A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS the President, having been duly notified by the Na- tional Mediation Board that a dispute between the Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway; Chicago and North Western Railway; Great Northern Railway; Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Railway, carriers, and certain of their employees represented by the Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers, Express and Station Employes which dispute has not heretofore been adjusted under the provisions of the Railway Labor Act, amended, now threatens substantially to interrupt interstate commerce within the States of Minnesota, Wis- consin and Michigan and on the Great Lakes to a degree such as to deprive that section of the country of essential transportation service; Creation of emer- NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, Presi- tigate dispute. dent of the United States of America, by virtue of the power vested 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 44 Stat. 5io Labor Act, amended, do hereby create a board to be composed of U three persons not pecuniarily or otherwise interested in any organiza- tion of railway employees or any carrier, to investigate the afore- mentioned dispute and report its findings to me within thirty days from this date. Compensation. The members of this board shall be compensated for and on account of such duties in the sum of seventy-five dollars ($75.00) for every day actually employed with or upon account of travel and duties inci- Expenditures. dent to such board. The members will be reimbursed for and they are hereby authorized to make expenditures for expenses for them- selves and of the board, including traveling expenses and in conformity 47 Stat. 382, 4 with Public No. 212, 72nd Congress, Approved June 30, 1932, 11:30 a. m., not to exceed five dollars ($5.00) per diem for expenses incurred for subsistence. Fund available. All expenditures of the board shall be allowed and paid for out of the appropriation "Emergency Boards, Railway Labor Act, May 20, _____ ^ _^__ rrer a-.

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