NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD

THIRD DIVISION

Ernest M. Tipton, Referee

AMERICAN TRAIN DISPATCHERS ASSOCIATION

DELAWARE & HUDSON RAILROAD CORPORATION

STATEMENT OF CLAIM: Claim for time lost five (5) working days, October 3 4, 5, 24, and 25, 1940, amount $49.85 for Train Dispatcher F. B. Sullivan, Albany Office, who was absent on the above dates due to illness.

Note: The respective statements of fact and the original submissions of the parties to this case appear in Award 1679 (Docket TD1695) adopted January 15, 1942.

OPINION OF BOARD: This is a companion case of Docket No. TD-1694, and must be governed by Awards No. 1678 and No. 2061. For the reason assigned in those two awards, this claim must be sustained.

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 employe involved in this dispute, are respectively carrier and employe 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 the agreement was violated by the Carrier as contended by the Petitioner.

AWARD