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 PROCLAMATIONS-APR. 5, 1945 EMERGENCY BOARD, MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILROAD CO.-EMPLOYEES BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS, the President, having been duly notified by the National Mediation Board that a dispute between the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company, a carrier, and certain of its employees represented by the following labor organization: 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 interstate commerce within the states of Arkansas, Colorado, Illinois, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Nebraska and Oklahoma to a degree such as to deprive a large section of the country of essential transportation service: NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, Presi- 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 Labor Act, amended, do hereby create a board to be composed of 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. 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 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 chairman 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 5th day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and forty- [SEAL] five, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-ninth. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President: DEAN ACHESON Acting Secretary of State April 5, 1945 [No. 2646] 44 Stat. 577. 45U.8.C.§§151- 188; Supp. IV, ch. 8 . Creation of board to investigate dispute. 44 Stat. 586 . 45U.S. C. 160. Compensation. 58 Stat. 547. Appropriation avail. able. 58 Stat. 568. 59 STT.] 863

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