OPINION OF BOARD: The record discloses that this claim arose in 1932, and that final declination of it was rendered by Carrier's Assistant to President, Carrier's highest officer designated to handle such disputes on the property, on July 22, 1937. It was appealed to this Division of the National Railroad Adjustment Board on March 6, 1958, which was not in accord with the requirement of Section 2, of Article V, of the August 21, 1954 National Agreement, to which the Telegraphers and this Carrier were signatory, i.e., within twelve (12) months after January 1, 1955, the effective date of that Article. There was no agreement to extend the time limits set forth in this Article V.
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 Employe involved in this dispute are respectively carrier and employe within the meaning of the Railway Labor Act, as approved June 21, 1934;