NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD

THIRD DIVISION

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

(a) Carrier violated the Vacation Agreement and current Clerks' Agreement at Brownwood, Texas, when on June 16 and 17 and August 4 and 5, 1954, it denied Relief Clerk W. J. Bettis vacation pay for the regular traveling and waiting time assigned to his position; and,

(b) W. J. Bettis shall now be paid an additional three (3) hours at rate of $15.39 per day for June 16, 1954; an additional eight (S) hours at rate of $13.30 per day for June 17, 1954 an additional three hours thirty minutes (3'30") at the rate of $16.39 per day for August 4, 1954 and an additional seven hours fifty minutes (7'50") at the rate of $13.30 per day for August 5, 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 the Carrier and the 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 complainant party; and

That hearing thereon has been held and concluded. Under date of January 10, 1957, the parties jointly addressed a formal communication to the Secretary of the Third Division, requesting withdrawal of 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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