FDR: “Bituminous coal production must be resumed, and promptly.”

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.

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

The Secretary of the Interior shall make employment available and provide protection to all employees working at such mines.

That the whole question of guaranteed wage plans and the possibility of their future development in American industries as an aid in the stabilization of employment and the regularization of production, should now be comprehensively…