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
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