Award No. 7995 Docket No. CL-9103

NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD

THIRD DIVISION

ST. LOUIS-SAN FRANCISCO RAILWAY COMPANY

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

(1) The Carrier violated the terms of the currently effective Agreement between the parties when on September 2, 1955 it abolished the position of Bill Clerk at Blackwell, Oklahoma and assigned the work of that position to others who hold no seniority or other rights under the Clerks' Agreement.

(2) J. A. Pitts and all others who have been adversely affected by reason of this abolishment and violation be reimbursed for all losses sustained.

NOTE: Reparation to be determined by joint check of payrolls and other necessary Carrier records.

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 June 24, 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, wbich request is hereby granted.

AWARD