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On the recordMarch 12, 1963
IT IS my understanding that tentative agreement has been reached on all but approximately five issues in your dispute.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Telegram to Management and Labor Leaders in the Southern Pacific Railroad Labor Dispute.

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