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 that the Carrier violated the Agreement:


1. When from August 4, 1952 to August 8, 1952, inclusive, F. B. Igoe was instructed to set aside his regular assignment as Rate Clerk in the

Revising Bureau in the office of Auditor of Freight Receipts during his regular eight (8) hour tour of duty, in order to compile and prepare a special statement involving specific information for a traffic study concerning Rule 34 of the Freight Classification Tariff covering shipments originating on Illinois Central during the week of August 4, 1952, requiring a total of 27 hours to complete said special statement, and


2. When from August 12, 1952 to September 8, 1952, inclusive, H. W. Duignan, F. B. Igoe, F. Blount, H. W. Habas and L. S. Lindig were instructed to set aside their regular assignments as Rate Clerks in the Revising Bureau in the office of Auditor of Freight Receipts during their regular eight (8) hour tour of duty, in order to compile and prepare a special statement covering shipments of fresh meat, cured meat, and packing house products, moving from certain stations in the Western Trunk Line Territory to points east of Illinois-Indiana state line, Ohio River and points North thereof, requiring

a total of 167% hours to complete said special statement, and

3. That the Carrier now be required to pay each employe involved at penalty rate for the number of hours that each one was required to suspend work on his regular assignment in order to utilize the necessary time to compile and prepare said special statements and/or reports, to wit:



















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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 Division of their desire to withdraw this case from further consideration by the Division, which request is hereby granted.




Case dismissed.





Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 5th day of December, 1956.