Award No. 7949 Docket No. MW-7801 NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD

THIRD DIVISION

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

(1) The Carrier violated the effective Agreement when, subsequent to September 1, 1951, it assigned employed of the Signal Department to paint signal poles, telephone boxes, number plates, control boxes, signal cabins, etc., on the Carrier's Pennsylvania Division;

(2) The same number of Painters, taken in seniority order on the Pennsylvania Division, be allowed pay at their regular straight time rates for an equal number of man-hours as were consumed by Signal Department employes in the performance of the work referred to in part (1) of this claim.

FINDINGS: The Third Division of the Adjustment Board finds:

That the dispute was certified to the Third Division of the Adjustment Board ex parte by complainant party; and

That no hearing thereon has been held, and under date of May 27, 1957, the complainant party addressed a formal communication to the Secretary of the Third Division requesting withdrawal of this case, which request is hereby granted.

AWARD