NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD
PARTIES TO DISPUTE:
THE ORDER OF RAILROAD TELEGRAPHERS
ST. LOUIS SOUTHWESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY
STATEMENT OF CLAIM: Claim of the General Committee of The
Order of Railroad Telegraphers on the St. Louis Southwestern Railway, that:
(a) The Carrier violated the terms of the collective agreement between the parties when on Saturdays, January 30 and February
6, 1954, it required employes outside of the
Agreement to handle
train orders at Lilbourn, Missouri, a one-man agent-telegrapher
station when there was no emergency and at a time when the
agent-telegrapher was not on duty but subject to call pursuant
to Article 6-4 and Article 7 (revised) Sections 1 (m) and
1I-B (2) of the Agreement; and that
(b) Carrier shall now compensate agent-telegrapher L. L. Riggs,
Lilbourn, Missouri, for a call (two hours at overtime rate) for
each of these days, January 30 and February 6, 1954, just as
though he had been called, as he should have been under the
terms of the agreement, to perform the work of handling the
train orders in question.
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 the complainant party; and
That no hearing thereon has been held, and under date of February 10,
1955, the complaint party addressed a forml communication to the Secretary
of the Third Division requesting withdrawal of this case, which
request is
hereby granted.
AWARD
Claim dismissed.
NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD
By Order of Third Division
ATTEST: (Sgd.) A. Ivan Tummon
Secretary
Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 17th day of February, 1955.
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