PROCLAMATIONS-MAR . 7, 1945 EMERGENCY BOARD, DES MOINES AND CENTRAL IOWA RAILROAD- EMPLOYEES March 7,1945 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA [No. 2640] A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS, the President, having been duly notified by the Na- tional Mediation Board that a dispute between the Des Mloines and Central Iowa Railroad, a carrier, and certain of its employees repre- sented by the following labor organizations: Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen which dispute has not heretofore been adjusted under the provisions 45 sU. . SC j151- of the Railway Labor Act, amended, now threatens substantially to 188;Supp.IV,chS. interrupt interstate commerce within the State of Iowa to a degree such as to deprive that section of the country of essential transporta- tion services; icto dia of to 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 44ta W6. 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 organization of railway employees or any carrier, to investigate the aforementioned 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 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 58stat.7 . 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. abeppropriation ava- All expenditures of the Board shall be allowed and paid for out of a stat. 56. the appropriation "Arbitration and Emergency Boards, National Mediation Board, 1945" on the presentation of itemized vouchers properly proproved 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 seventh day of March, 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: JOSEPH C. GREW Acting Secretary of State. [59 STAT.
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