STATEMENT OF CLAIM: "Claim of the General Committee of The Order of Railroad Telegraphers of the Boston and Maine Railroad, (Which is submitted under the principles enunciated in the second section of Rule 2 of the Telegraphers' Agreement dated March 18, 1927) that J. L. French, Agent for the Boston and Maine Railroad at Hampton, N. H., and serving as Express Agent for the Railway Express Agency, Inc., shall be paid the commission rate of fifteen percent (15"/0) on all outward business handled by him in the months of June, July, August and September of each year retroactively to June 1, 1936, which is the normal commission rate paid Agents on the Boston and Maine Railroad for such services. The amount of claim as shown below is $172.35 to the end of September 1938."
FINDINGS: The Third Division of the Adjustment Board, after giving the parties to this Dispute due notice of hearing thereon, and upon the whole record and all the evidence, finds and holds:
That the carrier and the employes involved in this dispute are respectively carrier and employes within the meaning of the Railway Labor Act, as approved June 21, 1934;
That this Division of the Adjustment Board has jurisdiction over the dispute involved herein; and
That hearing thereon has been held and concluded. Under date of February 26, 1940, the parties jointly advised the Secretary of the Third Division of their desire to withdraw it from further consideration by the Division, which request is hereby granted.