POST ON BULLETIN BOARD

Donald S. Beattie
Executive Secretary - Treasurer

Michael Fox
Vice Chairman

R. L. E. A. - -	RAILWAY LABOR EXECUTIVES' ASSOCIATION Railway Labor Building, 400 1st Street, N. W. Washington, D. C. 20001
C O P Y	October 16, 1964

Mr. Harold D. McCoy, Secretary
Interstate Commerce Commission
Washington 25, D. C.

Dear Mr. McCoy:

Please refer to application filed by the Ann Arbor Railroad Company for authorization to abandon operation under trackage rights by Wabash Railroad over line of Ann Arbor between Milan, Monroe County, Michigan and Manhattan Junction in the City of Toledo, Ohio, a distance of approximately 29 miles, identified by I.C.C. as Finance Docket No. 23331.

Upon investigation we find that the application, if granted, may well have an adverse effect on the employes of of the applicant(s) as well as employes of other railroad carriers affected. Therefore, the Railway Labor Executives' Association, composed of twenty-three of the standard railway labor organizations, representing practically all of the several classes of employes, enters its protest in opposition to approval of this application and prays that the application will be denied, and respectfully requests that the Association receive notice of Hearing which may subsequently be arranged.

Very truly yours,
/s/ Donald S. Beattie
Executive Seceretary

cc:

Mr. J. R. Clark

Chief Excutives, RLEA
Nat'l. Legis. Reps.
Mulholland, Hickey & Lyman

NOTE:

For your information -- the denial of the above application could ultimately lead to reduction of business and loss of jobs.

J. E. Schlosser
Superintendent