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 Clerks' Agreement at various points on the Pittsburgh Division when it contracted out the janitor work at Etna, Wildwood Glenshaw, Allison Park, Bakerstown, Eidenau, Zelienople, Dunbar, Cheat Haven, Leith, Oliver, Smithfield, Elm Grove, Point Marion, Hyndman, Morgantown, Rockwood, Uniontown, and ohnstown and/or other points located on the Pittsburgh Division, to an independent contractor, and

(2) That Charles B. Cook, Arthur L. Rich, George Reese, Edward Sheffield, Ulysses Garrett and others be aid eight hours each at $12.06 per day commencing April 10, 1954, until the violation is corrected.

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 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