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On the recordSeptember 19, 1979
The purpose of this action is to get the trains rolling again in a matter of days and to start moving grain that has already been piling up in the large areas of the Midwest served by the Rock Island Railroad line.
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Jimmy Carter
Democratic · Georgia

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Emergency Board To Investigate a Railway Labor Dispute Remarks Announcing Establishment of the Board.

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