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THE WHITE HOUSE

Office of the Press Secretary

For Immediate Release May 8, 1996

EXECUTIVE ORDER 13001

       ESTABLISHING AN EMERGENCY BOARD TO INVESTIGATE A DISPUTE
        BETWEEN CERTAIN RAILROADS REPRESENTED BY THE NATIONAL
       RAILWAY LABOR CONFERENCE AND THEIR EMPLOYEES REPRESENTED
       BY THE TRANSPORTATION COMMUNICATIONS INTERNATIONAL UNION

A dispute exists between certain railroads represented by the National Railway Labor Conference and their employees represented by the Transportation Communications International Union. The railroads involved in this dispute are designated on the attached list, which is made a part of this order.

This dispute has not heretofore been adjusted under the provisions of the Railway Labor Act, as amended (45 U.S.C. 151 et seq.) (the "Act").

In the judgment of the National Mediation Board, this dispute threatens substantially to interrupt interstate commerce to a degree that would deprive a section of the country of essential transportation service.

NOW, THEREFORE, by the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, including section 10 of the Act (45 U.S.C. 160), it is hereby ordered as follows:

Section 1. Establishment of Emergency Board ("Board"). There is established effective May 8, 1996, a Board of three members to be appointed by the President to investigate the dispute. No member shall be pecuniarily or otherwise interested in any organization of railroad employees or any railroad carrier. The Board shall perform its functions subject to the availability of funds.

Sec. 2. Report. The Board shall report to the President with respect to the dispute within 30 days of its creation.

Sec. 3. Maintaining Conditions. As provided by section 10 of the Act, from the date of the creation of the Board and for 30 days after the Board has made its report to the President, no change, except by agreement of the parties shall be made by the railroads or the employees in the conditions out of which the dispute arose.

Sec. 4. Records Maintenance. The records and files of the Board are records of the Office of the President and upon the Board's termination shall be maintained in the physical custody of the National Mediation Board.

Sec. 5. Expiration. The Board shall terminate upon the submission of the report provided for in sections 2 and 3 of this order.

WILLIAM J. CLINTON

                           THE WHITE HOUSE,
                           May 8, 1996.

RAILROADS

Alameda Belt Line Railway Alton & Southern Railroad American Refrigerator Transit Company Arkansas Memphis Bridge Company Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company Bangor and Aroostook Railroad Company Belt Railway Company of Chicago Brownsville & Matamoros Bridge Company Burlington Northern Railroad Company

     Allouez Taconite Facility
     Brainerd Timber Treating Plant
     Western Fruit Express Company Camas Prairie Railroad Company

Canadian National North America Central California Traction Company Chicago Heights Terminal Railroad Chicago Heights Terminal Transfer Railroad Chicago and North Western Railway Company Chicago South Shore and South Bend Railroad Consolidated Rail Corporation CSX Transportation, Inc.

     The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company (former)
     The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company (former)
     Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company (former)
     Seaboard Coast Line Railroad Company (former) Houston Belt and

Terminal Railway Joint Railroad Agency - National Stock Yards The Kansas City Southern Railway Company

CP-Kansas City Southern Joint Agency Kansas City Terminal Railway Company Lake Superior & Ishpeming Railroad Company Los Angeles Junction Railroad Company Missouri Pacific Railroad New Orleans Public Belt Railroad Norfolk and Portsmouth Belt Line Railroad Company Norfolk Southern Corporation Norfolk Southern Railway Company

     The Alabama Great Southern Railroad Company
     Atlantic & East Carolina Railway Company
     Central of Georgia Railroad Company
     The Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific
          Railway Company
     Georgia Southern and Florida Railway Company
     Norfolk & Western Railway Company
     Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia Railway Company Northern Indiana

Commuter Transportation District Peoria and Pekin Union Railway Company The Pittsburgh, Chartiers & Youghiogheny Railway Company Port Terminal Railroad Association Portland Terminal Railroad Company Spokane International Railroad Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis Texarkana Union Station Trust Company Union Pacific Fruit Express Union Pacific Railroad

     Galveston, Houston and Henderson Railroad
     Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad
     Oklahoma, Kansas & Texas Railroad Western Pacific Railroad Wichita

Terminal Association

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