Award No. 7545 Docket No. CL-8566

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 the senior extra Yard Clerk on each shift be allowed eight hours pay for each day that Switchmen perform switching by lists instead of cards, commencing on February 4, 1954, at East St. Louis (Valley Junction), Illinois, and subsequent days until violation is corrected.

(2) Claim for loss suffered by the 8:00 A. M.--4:00 P. M., Interchange Clerk and the 4:55 P. M., to 12:55 A. M. Interchange Clerk for a minimum call of two hours at penalty rate due to Switchmen switching by lists instead of by cards, commencing with February 4, 1954, and for subsequent days until violation is corrected, which, we were informed, was corrected May 10, 1954.

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

AWARD

Case dismissed.

NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD By Order of THIRD DIVISION

ATTEST: A. Ivan Tummon

Executive Secretary

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