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_onn I NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUS'Iit:ENT BOARD Award ho. 6496
SECOND DIVISION Docket No. 6338-I
2-IC-I-' 73
The Second Division consisted of the regular members and in
addition Referee John J. McGovern when award was rendered.
( Albert Taylor, Petitioner

_Parties to Dispute:

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( Illinois Central Railroad Company

Dispute: Claim of Petitioner:

That he was employed at Woodcrest Shop of I.C.R.R. - 17550 South Ashland Ave.., Homewood,, Illinois, as a Laborer, Clock No. 17104 from about 10/29/66 to 11/14/70. That on or about December 2, 1970 this Employee was dismissed from his job by tdr. Jeffrey, as a result of an Investigation Report taken on Nov. 20, 1970.

Findings:

The Second Division of the Adjustment Board, upon the whole record and '11 the evidence, finds that:

The carrier or carriers and the employe or employes involved in this

dispute are respectively carrier and employe within the t:eaning of the Railway I
Labor Act as approved June 21, 1934.

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

Parties to said dispute were given due notice of hearing thereon.

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Without considering the substantive merits of the claim, it is j

clear from an examination of the record before us that the claimant ignored the
appeals procedure on the property in violation of Section 3, First (i) of the
Railway Labor Act. We have no alternative other than to dismiss the claim.

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Claim dismissed.

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NATIONAL RAILROAD .10)JUSTIMIT DJ&RD

By Order of Second Division

Attest;

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Ixecutive Sccretary

', ed at Chicago, Illinois, this 30th day of May, 1973.

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