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 PROCLAMATIONS-MAY 9, 16, 1945 Observance of week commencing July 2, 1945, as National Farm-Safety Week. May 16, 1945 [No. 2653] WHEREAS the accidents which cause some fourteen hundred farm residents to lose their lives each month, and one hundred and twenty- five thousand others to suffer injuries, constitute an unnecessary waste of human life as well as of time and material: NOW, THEREFORE, I, HARRY S. TRUMAN, President of the United States of America, do hereby call upon the Nation to ob- serve the week commencing July 22, 1945, as National Farm-Safety Week. And I request all persons and organizations concerned with agriculture and farm life to do everything in their power to educate farm people in the proper precautions by which they may eliminate farm hazards, and to stimulate a nationwide determination to stop the needless waste of irreplaceable farm manpower and property. And I further urge that farm people everywhere observe National Farm-Safety Week by making a safety check in their homes and on their farms. 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 9th day of May, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-five, and of the [SEAL] Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-ninth. HARRY S TRUMAN By the President: JOSEPH C. GREW Acting Secretary of State. EMERGENCY BOARD, COLORADO & WYOMING RAILWAY COMPANY- 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 Colorado & Wyoming Railway Company a carrier, and certain of its employees represented by the following iabor organizations: Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen 4at77 which dispute has not heretofore been adjusted under the provisions 45 u. s. c. 151 - of the Railway Labor Act, amended, now threatens substantially to 88;upp iv, ch interrupt interstate commerce within the states of Colorado and Wyoming to a degree such as to deprive that section of the country Creation of essential transportation service: investigate dispute. NOW, THEREFORE, I, HARRY S. TRUMAN, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power vested in me by the 44 stat Constitution and laws of the United States, and by virtue of and under 465U. C. i6le. 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 organization of railway employees or any carrier, to investigate the aforementioned dispute and report its findings to me within thirty days from this date. Compenton. The members of the board shall be compensated for and on account of such duties in the sum of fifty dollars ($50.00) 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 con- 868 [59 STAT.

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