PARTIES TO DISPUTE:





STATEMENT OF CLAIM: The Grievance Committee, Chicago Division No. 715, Order of Railway Conductors, Pullman System, claims non-compliance with the rules of the Agreement between The Pullman Company and Conductors in the Service of The Pullman Company in not using employes who hold seniority as conductors to perform conductors' work in Lines 278 and 280, C.I.&L. Train No. 3 (Monon) departing from Chicago on September 5, 1942, and subsequent dates-these lines being allowed to depart from Chicago on September 5th and subsequent dates in charge of a porter, an employe not covered by the conductors' Agreement, who performed all of the conductor's work; the committee contending that under the rules of the Agreement, the conductors holding seniority in the Chicago Eastern District should have been assigned to Lines 278 and 280 on September 5th and subsequent dates, and asks that conductors entitled to this work be compensated for all time lost by reason of this violation of the conductors' Agreement and that like settlement be made for each date these lines are allowed to depart without a conductor in charge; further, that the use of porters or other employes who do not hold seniority as conductors to perform conductors' work is a violation of Rule 25, the seniority rule, and Rule 31, the bulletining rule, of the conductors' Agreement dated December 1, 1936, and that these rules continue to be violated each date these lines depart from Chicago without a conductor. Rules 1, 20, 26, 55 and 56 are also directly involved.




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


That no hearing thereon has been held, and under date of August 20, 1946 the complainant party addressed a formal communication to the Secretary of the Third Division requesting withdrawal of this case, which request is hereby granted.









        ATTEST: H. A. Johnson, Secretary.


        Dated at Chicago, Illinois this 3rd day of September, 1946.


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