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On the recordJanuary 22, 1963
In my opinion such dispute threatens to result in a strike affecting a substantial part of an industry engaged in trade or commerce among the several States or with foreign nations, or in the production of goods for commerce, which strike, if permitted to occur or to continue, will imperil the national safety.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Executive Order 11078—Creating a Board of Inquiry to Report on a Labor Dispute Affecting the Ballistics Missile, Space...

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