PARTIES TO DISPUTE:

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

GULF COAST LINES; INTERNATIONAL-GREAT NORTHERN RR. CO.; THE ST. LOUIS, BROWNSVILLE AND MEXICO RY. CO.; THE BEAUMONT, SOUR LAKE AND WESTERN RY. CO.; SAN ANTONIO, UVALDE AND GULF RR. CO.; THE ORANGE AND NORTHWESTERN RR. CO.; IBERIA, ST. MARY AND EASTERN RR. CO.; SAN BENITO AND RIO GRANDE VALLEY RY. CO.; NEW ORLEANS, TEXAS AND MEXICO RY. CO.; NEW IBERIA AND NORTHERN RR. CO.; SAN ANTONIO SOUTHERN RY CO.; HOUSTON AND BRAZOS VALLEY RY. CO.; HOUSTON NORTH SHORE RY. CO.; ASHERTON AND GULF RY. CO.; RIO GRANDE CITY RY. CO.; ASPHALT BELT RY. CO.; SUGARLAND RY. CO.




STATEMENT OF CLAIM: Claim of the System Committee of the Brotherhood that:


(a) The Carrier violated the Clerks' Agreement at Palestine, Texas on April 5 and 20, 1946 when it used persons not covered by the Clerks' Agreement to transfer one carload of bottles on each of those dates. Also


(b) Claim that Transfer Clerk Stanaland and Truckers Wagner, Payne, Brown and Cravin be paid a call on each of the dates involved.

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 wihin 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;


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


That hearing thereon has been held but not concluded. Under date of October 6, 1948, the complainant party addresesd a formal communication



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to the Acting Secretary of the Third Division requesting withdrawal of this case from further consideration by the Division, which request is hereby granted.








ATTEST: A. I. Tummon
Acting Secretary

Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 8th day of October, 1948.