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 PROCLAMATIONS-NOV. 8, 14, 1944 Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen which dispute has not heretofore been adjusted under the provisions of the Railway Labor Act, amended, now threatens substantially to interrupt inter- state commerce within the State of Utah to a degree such as to deprive that section of the country of essential transportation service; NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, President 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 Labor Act, amended, do hereby create a board to be composed of 3 persons not pecuniarily or otherwise interested in any organization of railway employees or any carrier, to investigate the aforementioned dispute and report its findings to me within thirty days from this date. The members of this board shall be compensated for and on account of such duties in the sum of seventy-five dollars ($75.) for every day actually employed with or upon account of travels and duties incident to such board. The members will be reimbursed for and they are hereby authorized to make expenditures for expenses for themselves and of the board, including necessary transportation expenses, and in conformity with Public No. 373-78th Congress, approved June 28, 1944, not to exceed six dollars ($6.00) per diem in lieu of subsistence while so employed. All expenditures of the Board shall be allowed and paid for out of the appropriation "Arbitration and Emergency Boards, National Mediation Board, 1945" on the presentation of itemized vouchers properly approved by the chairmen of the board hereby created. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington this 8 th day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and forty-four, [SEAL] and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-ninth. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President: E. R. STETTINIUS, Jr. Acting Secretary of State. SPECIFICATION OF THE TERMINATION DATE AS PROVIDED IN THE RENEGOTIATION ACT BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS subsection (h) of the Renegotiation Act (section 403, as amended, of the Sixth Supplemental National Defense Appropria- tion Act, 1942, approved April 28, 1942 (56 Stat. 226, 245), as amended by section 701 of the Revenue Act of 1943, enacted February 25, 1944 (58 Stat. 26, 78)), provides in part: "This section shall apply only with respect to profits derived from contracts with the Departments and subcontracts which are attributable to performance prior to the termination date. For the purposes of this subsection- "(2) The term 'termination date' means- "(A) December 31, 1944; or "(B) If the President not later than December 1, 1944, finds and by proclamation declares that competitive conditions have not been restored, such date not later 44 Stat. 577. 45 U. S. C. §§151- 188; Supp. III, eh. 8. Creation of board to investigate dispute. 44 Stat. 586 . 45U.S. C. 160. Compensation of members. Ante, p. 568. Appropriation available. Ante, p. 668. November 14. 1944 [No. 2631] Ante, p. 87. 'Termination date." 58 STAT.]

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