Evening star., 1941-03-20
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The teTt of President RooSe-
DeltS executive order yesterday
establishing labor board for de-
tense industries tollolDS::
Establishment of National Defense
Mediation Board.
Whereas it is essential in the pres
employees engaged in production or
transportation of materials necessary
to national defense shall exert every
possible effort to assure that all work
necessary for national defense shall
proceed without interruption and
with all possible speed:
Now, therefore. by virtue of the
authority vested in me by the Con-
stitution and the statutes, and in
order to define further certain func-
tions and duties of the Office for
emergency management of the ex-
ecutive Office of the President with
respect to the national emergency
as declared by the President to exist
on September 8. 1889, it is hereby
OfutTeu DIS IOllOWS-
l (A). There is hereby created in
the Office for emergency manage
ment, board to be known as the
National Defense Mediation Board
hereinafter referred to as the
board. The board shall be COM
posed of IL members to be appointed
by the President, of whom three
shall be disinterested persons rep
resenting the public, four shall be
representatives of employees and four
shall be representatives of employers.
The President shall designate as
chairman of the board one of the
members representing the public.
Provides Subsistence Expense.
(B) Each member Of the board
shall receive necessary travelling ex-
penseS, and each member who, dur
ing the period of his service on said
| board, is not an officer or employe
of the United States shall receive in
addition thereto s25 per diem for
subsistence expense on such days as
he is performing board duties.
Within the limits of such funds as
may be appropriated by Congress or
allocated to it by the President,
through the Bureau of the Budget,
the Office Of Production Manage
ment shall furnish the board with
necessary experts, assistants, officers
and employees, and make provision
for the necessary supplies, facilities
and services.
2. Whenever the Secretary of
Labor certifies to the board that any
controversy or dispute has arisen
between any employer Cor group of
employers and any employees Cor
organization of employes) which
threatens to burden or obStruct the
production or transportation of
equipment or materials essential to
national defense (excluding any dis
pute coming within the purview of
the Railway Labor Act as amendeO
and which cannot be adjusted by the
commissioners of conciliation of the
Department of Labor, the board is
hereby authorized:
(a) To make every reasonable
effort to adjust and settle any such
controversy or dispute by assisting
the parties thereto to negotiate
agreements for that purpose
Could Investigate Issues.
CD To afford means for voluntary
arbitration with an agreement by
the parties thereto to abide by the
decision arrived at upon such ar
bitratiOn and when reoIIeSted nv
both parties, to designate a person
or persons to act as impartial ar
bitrator or arbitrators of such con-
troversy or dispute.
Co To assist in establishing, when
desired by the parties, methods for
resolving future controversies or dis
putes between the parties; and to
deal with matters of interest to both
parties which may thereafter arise.