PARTIES TO DISPUTE:

BROTHERHOOD OF RAILWAY AND STEAMSHIP CLERKS,
FREIGHT HANDLERS, EXPRESS AND STATION EMPLOYES



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 July 16, 1956, it abolished Motor Operator Position No. 2 at Joplin, Missouri and assigned the work thereof to Group 1 Yard Clerks and coincident therewith assigned part of the duties of the Motor Operator-Janitor to Telegraphers.




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 the complainant party; and

That hearing thereon has been held but not concluded. Under date of October 25, 1957 the complainant party addressed a formal communication to


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the Secretary of the Third Division requesting withdrawal of this case from further consideration by the Division, which request is hereby granted.



    Case dismissed.


              NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD By Order of THMD DIVISION


              ATTEST: A. Ivan Tummon

              Executive Secretary


Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 4th day of November, 1957.