The Second Division consisted of the regular members and in addi

tion Referee Dudley E. Whiting when the award was rendered.


PARTIES TO DISPUTE:



SYSTEM FEDERATION NO. 73, RAILWAY EMPLOYES'

DEPARTMENT, AFL (Federated Trades)





CARRIER'S STATEMENT OF FACTS: Above claim was included in Strike Docket and Ballot dated January 30, 1956, which was actually submitted to the employes April 5, 1956. Parties were unable to compose their differences in conference during period July 9 to 12, inclusive, 1956, and carrier was notified on July 13, 1956, that the labor organizations, parties to this claim, had "set a strike date for seven A. M. Central Standard Time, July 18, 1956", at which time employes represented by the organizations would cease work for the carrier.


Claim is predicated upon special rules of the involved craft (in this case Rule 100 of Electrical Workers' Special Rules) and Rule 24 of agreement (hereinafter referred to as Shop Crafts' Agreement) effective February 1, 1924 (Reprinted June 1, 1954) between the Chicago Great Western Railway Company and employes represented by organizations composing System Federation No. 73, reading as follows:






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First (i) of the Railway Labor Act, as Amended, they are not properly referable to your Board.

FINDINGS: The Second Division of the Adjustment Board, upon the whole record and all the evidence, finds that:

The carrier or carriers and the employe or employes involved in this dispute are respectively carrier and employe within the meaning of the Railway Labor Act as approved June 21, 1934.

This Division of the Adjustment Board has jurisdiction over the dispute involved herein.



Disposition of this claim is governed by our Award No. 2664 (Docket No. 2509') .







ATTEST: Harry J. Sassaman
Executive Secretary

Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 26th day of November, 1957.