FDR: “We are strengthening the weakest spot in our system of industrial supply-- its long smouldering labor difficulties.”

The coming total defeat of our enemies, and of the philosophy of conflict and aggression... gives us a new chance and a better chance than we have ever had to bring about conditions under which the Nations of the world substitute…

That the President appoint a commission for these purposes.

By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the statutes of the United States, it is hereby ordered as follows:

That such a body would be best able to perform its nationally important tasks if created independently of the War Labor Board by the President.