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On the recordMarch 29, 1949
NOW, THEREFORE, by virtue of the authority vested in me by section 10 of the Railway Labor Act.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

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Executive Order 10048—Creating an Emergency Board To Investigate a Dispute Between the Southern Pacific Company (Pacific...)

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