EXECUTIVE
ORDER
EO 13004
Effective Date: May 17, 1996

Responsible Office: Office of General Counsel
Subject: ESTABLISHING AN EMERGENCY BOARD TO INVESTIGATE DISPUTES BETWEEN CERTAIN RAILROADS REPRESENTED BY THE NATIONAL RAILWAY LABOR CONFERENCE AND THEIR EMPLOYEES REPRESENTED BY CERTAIN LABOR ORGANI

				TEXT

Disputes exist between certain railroads represented by the
National Railway Labor Conference and their employees represented
by certain labor organizations.  The railroads and labor
organizations involved in these disputes are designated on the
attached lists, which are made a part of this order.

These disputes have 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, these disputes
threaten 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 17, 1996, a Board of three members to
be appointed by the President to investigate the disputes.  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
disputes arose.

Sec. 4. Records Maintenance.  The records and files of the Board
are records of the Office of the President and upon the Boards'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.

                    /s/William J. Clinton


THE WHITE HOUSE.
May 17, 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 Timbar 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

  LABOR ORGANIZATIONS
  Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen
  International Association of Machinists & Aerospace Workers,   
     AFL-CIO
  International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
  Sheet Metal Workers International Association

			

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