NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD

THIRD DIVISION

Curtis G. Shake, Referee


PARTIES TO DISPUTE:

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


STATEMENT OF CLAIM: Claim of the System Committee of the Brotherhood that the following positions in the. Superintendent's Office at Whitefish, Montana, be paid at the following rates as of October 6, 1942, (see Exhibit B), with titles and rates as listed:














EMPLOYES' STATEMENT OF FACTS: Prior to October 1, 1931, a superintendent's office was located at Havre, Montana for the Operating Division known as the Montana Division. Among the various employes working on this Division there was employed in such Superintendent's Office at Havre the following positions with rates of pay as indicated:














The work these employes were engaged in conformed with the titles of the positions as listed. On October 1, 1931, this Division office was abolished and the work formerly performed therein was consolidated with what is known as the Kalispell Division office located at Whitefish, Montana, and the Butte Division office located at Great Falls, Montana. The work in the Superintendent's Office at Havre, which was being performed by the clerks listed above, was divided between the Division Offices at Whitefish, Montana and at Great Falls, Montana for the territory taken over by the respective Divisions, and the work was assigned to positions with a similar title as those we have isted with rates as follows:



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This case is typical of those in which this Board is amply justified in leaving the parties where it finds them. The claim was not filed for eleven years after its accrual. Claimants undertake to excuse this long delay by showing that they made timely. verbal demands for redress, but this is a circumstance against them, rather than for them, because it discloses that they were fully cognizant of whatever rights they had and their subsequent inaction was calculated to lull the carrier into the belief that the matter was at rest. Tile precedents sustaining this view are too numerous and wellknown to require citation.


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 the carrier did not violate the Agreement.

                  AWARD


Claim denied.

            NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD

            By Order of Third Division


ATTEST: H. A. Johnson
 Secretary

 Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 19th day of June, 1944.