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 February 5, 1956, it reduced the motor operator-Janitor position from seven-day position to a five-day position, abolished the relief position which relieved the Motor Operator-Janitor on his rest days, and assigned the work thereof to Group 1 yard clerks.

(2) The senior extra Group 3 employe now be paid a day's pro rata pay at the rate of the Motor Operator-Janitor's position for Saturday, February 11th, Sunday, February 12th, and each Saturday and Sunday thereafter until 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 the complainant party; and

That hearing thereon has been held but not 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, which request is hereby granted.

AWARD