NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD

THIRD DIVISION

THE BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD COMPANY

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

(1) Carrier violated the Rules of the Agreement when on August 31, 1954, it abolished certain positions of Weighmasters at Connellsville, Pa., Scale Office and unilaterally transferred the work to the Scale Office, New Castle Junction, Pa. (Akron-Chicago Division) and Cloe, Pa. (Buffalo Division) without regard for the provisions of Rule 28 and other Rules of the Clerks' Agreement, and

(2) That A. A. Tressler, Jr., J. D. Davis, J. D. Brooks, H. G. Fisher, R. E. King and/or others of inerest adversely affected be compensated for wage loss sustained beginning with September 1, 1954, and subsequent dates.

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 ofthe Adjustment Board has jurisdiction over the dispute involved herein;

That the dispute was certified to the Third Division of the Adjustment Board jointly by the parties; and

That hearing thereon has been held and concluded. Under date of March 12, 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