PARTIES TO DISPUTE:

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



STATEMENT OF CLAIM: Claim of the System Committee of the Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers, Express and Station Employes that the Carrier violated the Clerks' Agreement:


1. When in April 1943, it removed the work of sorting mail for Passenger Train No. 198, scheduled to arrive in Wahpeton about 8:53 P. M. working the Express, Mail and Baggage for Trains 197 and 198, making out Freight Bills for Inbound Freight, handling Freight Forwarded Abstract, Revise and make out Express Way Bills, for Delivery Sheets, together with various other clerical reports; also, Janitor work, was taken out from under the Scope and operation of the Clerks' Agreement and assigned it to an employe not covered thereby and holding no seniority rights entitling him to perform said work.


2. That such Clerical work shall now be returned to the Scope and operation of the Clerks' Agreement and assigned to employes covered thereby.


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 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;


That the dispute was certified to the Third Division of the Adjustment Board jointly by the parties; and


That hearing thereon has been held and concluded. Under date of September 28, 1948, the parties jointly addressed a formal communication 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.