Award No. 7544 Docket No. CL-8564

NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD

THIRD DIVISION

BROTHERHOOD OF RAILWAY AND STEAMSHIP CLERKS,

FREIGHT HANDLERS, EXPRESS AND STATION EMPLOYES

ST. LOUIS SOUTHWESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY

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

(1) That Carrier violated the Clerks' current Agreement when it required certain employes in the Recheck Bureau of the Freight Accounting Department, Tyler, Texas, to suspend work on their regular assigned positions and perform work of an entirely different character than covered by their assignment.

(2) That the following employes each be paid an additional three days at the straight time rate of their regular position on April 12, 13 and 16, 1951; John J. Wallis, H. M. GrifHes, Dan O'Connor, C. J. Stocker, Ralph Pool and E. T. Edwards.

(3) That the following employes in the Interline Department each be reimbursed at penalty rate for three days: S. C. Boynton, W. Seydler, T. B. Sword, H. D. Speaks, John L. Bailey and E. R. Williams.

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 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 7, 1956, the parties jointly advised the Secretary of the Third

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