NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD

THIRI; 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 or about November 26 it abolished the relief position effective December 1, 1955, which relieved the caller on his Saturday rest day, assigning the work attached thereto to others who hold no seniority or other rights under the Clerks' Agreement.

(2) That former caller J. C. 1AleLellandand relief clerk E. F. Roberts, and all others adversely affected by his violation, be reimbursed for all losses sustained until corrected.

NOTE: Reparation due employes to be determined by joint check of Carrier's payroll and other 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 parte 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 DiNision, which request is hereby granted.

AWARD