PARTIES TO DISPUTE:





STATEMENT OF CLAIM: Claim of the Joint Council Dining Car Employes, Locals 456 and 582, for and in behalf of Richard McKay, Lounge Car Attendant, and other employes similarly situated that:


1st. By charging claimants for meals and lodgings and deducting amounts charged from their wages, effective March 1, 1941, the Carrier violated the current agreement, particularly Supplement 17 of General Order 27, together with the practices existing upon the premises of furnishing free meals and lodgings to Lounge Car Attendants in the dining car department of the Carrier, in service.


2nd. That Richard McKay who has been charged for meals and lodging and from whose wages deductions were made shall be reimbursed in the total amount thus deducted retroactive to March 1, 1941.


FINDINGS: The Third Division of the Adjustment Board finds:

That the dispute was certified to the Third Division of the Adjustment Board ex parts by complainant party; and


That no hearing thereon has been held, and under date of May 11, 1944, the complainant party addressed a formal communication to the Secretary of the Third Division withdrawing this case, which request is hereby granted.




Case dismissed.




ATTEST: II. A. Johnson
Secretary

Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 11th day of May, 1944.