Form 1 NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD Award No. 7097
SECOND DIVISION Docket No. 6
2-SLSF-MA-'76





Parties to Dispute:




Dispute: Claim of Em loyes:





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,, 193+.

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



The Record of the instant case is such as to require the dismissal of the entire dispute without passing on its merits. In the Employes' Ex Pan e Submission to this Board, the "DISPUTE AND CLAIM OF EMPLOYES" states:



The Petitioner thereby identifies the Claimant before this Board as Jim Murphy. The claim progressed to the highest officer of the Carrier was on behalf of Machinist Biggs. Section 3, First (i) of the Railway Labor Act contemplates that the claim denied by the Chief Operating Officer on the property be the claim that may be referred to the Board.


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Claim. dismissed.

Attest: Executive Secretary
National Railroad Adjustment Board

A W A R D

Award No. 7097

Docket No. 6944

2-SLSF-MA-'76


NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD

By Order of Second Division


By


Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 14th day of July, 1976.