PROCLAMATIONS-SEPT. 19, 1944 EMERGENCY BOARD, CHICAGO, NORTH SHORE AND MILWAUKEE RAILROAD COMPANY AND CHICAGO, AURORA & ELGIN RAILROAD COMPANY-EMPLOYEES September 19, 1944 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA [No. 2622] A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS, the President, having been duly notified by the Na- tional Mediation Board that disputes between the Chicago, North Shore and Milwaukee Railroad Company, the Chicago, Aurora & Elgin Railroad Company, carriers, and certain of their employees represented by the following labor organizations: Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen which disputes have not heretofore been adjusted under the provisions 44Stat. 77 . of the Railway Labor Act, amended, now threaten substantially to 45U.S.C. 151- 188;Supp. ni, h.8. interrupt interstate commerce within the States of Illinois and Wis- consin to a degree such as to deprive that section of the country of essential transportation service; nestinatedfbsputes. 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 44 Stat. 568. 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 organi- zation of railway employees or any carrier, to investigate the afore- mentioned disputes and report its findings to me within thirty days from this date. Compensation of 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 Ati, p. 57. 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. ppropriation avail- All expenditures of the board shall be allowed and paid for out of appropriation "Arbitration and Emergency Boards, National Medi- Anit, p. 68. ation 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 nineteenth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and [SEAL] forty-four, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-ninth. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President CORDELL HULL Secretary of State [58 STAT.
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