NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD

THIRD DIVISION

THE DETROIT AND TOLEDO SHORE LINE RAILROAD

COMPANY

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

(1) That the Carrier violated the Union Shop Agreement between the Brotherhood and the Carrier effective December 2, 1952, when it failed to notify employes G. P. Sheperd, K. Inman, F. R. Bette, D. H. Mitchell, Ruth Trathen, Howard Hulquist, Alice Henry, Harry Rogge, Calvin Thayer and Hazel Fox, upon proper notification from the General Chairman of the Brotherhood dated February 4, 1953, of the employes' failure to comply with the terms of the Union Shop Agreement; and

(2) That the Carrier be required to notify such employes in accordance with Section 5 (a) of said Agreement.

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 carrier and employes 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 ex parts by the compainant party; and

That hearing thereon has been held and concluded. Under date of June 27, 1956, the parties jointly advised the Secretary of the Third Division of

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