PARTIES TO DISPUTE:

 BROTHERHOOD OF RAILWAY AND STEAMSHIP CLERKS,
 FREIGHT HANDLERS, EXPRESS AND
 STATION EMPLOYES

STATEMENT OF CLAIM: "Claim of the System Committee of the Brotherhood that:

 (1) The Carrier violated Agreement rules when it nominally abolished three messenger positions on Southern Railway Trains 36-36, Atlanta-Salisbury Route, salary $169.20 per month, and assigned per formance of their duties to employees in other seniority districts and others not covered by the agreement, and

 (2) Said positions shall be re-established and former incumbents restored thereto and reimbursed for all wage losses sustained retroactive to September 20, 1937."

 FINDINGS: The Third Division of the Adjustment Board finds that:

 The dispute was certified to the Third Division of the Adjustment Board ex parte by complainant party.

 No hearing has been had, and, under date of July 6, 1938, the bomplainant party addressed a formal communication to the Secretary of the Third Division withdrawing this case.

Claim dismissed.

            NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD

            By Order of Third Division


ATTEST: H. A. Johnson
 Secretary

 Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 7th day of July, 1938.

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