NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD

THIRD DIVISION

BROTHERHOOD OF RAILWAY AND STEAMSHIP CLERKS,

FREIGHT HANDLERS, EXPRESS AND STATION EMPLOYES

ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY

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

(a) The Carrier violated the Rules of the Clerks' Agreement when on May 1, 1954, it created a position of Train Master's Clerk at Princeton, Kentucky, as excepted from Rules 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 23, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39. 40, 41, 42. 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63 and 64. Also Rules 24, 25, 26 and 53 except in case of the occupant's dismissal from service.

(b) That Carrier shall now be required to bulletin position of Train Master's Clerk at Central City, Kentucky, subject to all the Rules of the existing Agreement.

(c) That Carrier shall compensate any and all employes affected for any wage loss sustained as a result of being deprived of promotional and seniority rights.

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 Employes involved in this dispute are respectively carrier and employes 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 complainant party; and

That hearing thereon has been held and concluded. Under date of November 20, 1956, the parties jointly advised the Secretary of the Third

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