NATIONAL'RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD
THIRD DIVISION
PARTIES TO DISPUTE:
AMERICAN TRAIN DISPATCHERS ASSOCIATION
CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO RAILWAY COMPANY
STATEMENT
OF
CLAIM: Claim of the American Train Dispatchers
Association that:
(a) The Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Company did not comply
with the intent of the provisions of Note 2, Rule 1, nor with Rule
4-(b)
and Rule 5-(c) of the current schedule-agreement entered
into between the parties hereto and which became effective October
1, 1944,
when employes other than train dispatchers were placed
on positions at Gordonsville, Virginia, on or about September 28,
1945,
to man and operate a Centralized Traffic Control machine by
the means of which the dispatching of trains is performed "over a
dispatching circuit handled by centralized train control".
(b) The Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Company shall now comply with the intent of the provisions of the rules set out in paragraph (a) above, and compensate such train dispatchers for any
monetary loss, wo sustained such loss by reason of failure of the
Carrier to comply with the intent of those rules.
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 had, and under date of March
4, 1946
the complainant party addressed a formal communication to the Secretary of
the Third Division withdrawing this case, which request is hereby granted.
AWARD
Case dismissed.
NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD
By Order of Third Division
ATTEST:
H. A. Johnson
Secretary
Dated at Chicago, Illinois,
this 7th day of March,
1946.
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