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 -


(a) The Carrier violated the Clerks' Agreement at the Yard Office, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, when on Thanksgiving Day, November 25, 1954, it required Clerk J. P. Evans to suspend work on his position during regular hours for the purpose of absorbing overtime.


(b) That J. P. Evans be compensated for four hours at the punitive rate of his position. (Pro rata rate of position $14.28 per day.)


(c) That C. Y. Coffing be compensated for wage loss sustained representing two hours and thirty minutes' pay at punitive rate. (Pro rata rate of position $14.54 per day.)


(d) That T. J. Thomassie be compensated for wage loss sustained representing one hour and thirty minutes' pay at punitive rate. (Pro rata rate of position $14.44 per day.)




STATEMENT OF CLA131: Claim of the System Committee of the Brotherhood that-


(a) The Carrier violated the Clerks' Agreement at the Yard Office, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, when on November 26, 1954, it required Clerks C. Y. Coffing and W. J. Kling to suspend work on their positions during regular hours for the purpose of absorbing overtime.


(b) That C. Y. Coffing be compensated one hour and ten minutes' pay at punitive rate. (Pro rata rate of position $14.54.)


(c) That W. J. Kling be compensated one hour and twenty minutes' pay at punitive rate. (Pro rata rate of position $14.28.)


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:



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 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.








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