Award No. 8442 Docket No. CL-10226

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 or about February 9, 1957, it reduced the Day Ticket Clerk position at Vinita, Oklahoma from a seven-day position to a six-day position and assigned the work thereof to employes who hold no seniority or other rights under the Clerks' Agreement on Saturday of each week.

(2) Mr. C. A. Ward now be paid a day's pay for each date February 9, 16, 23, March 2, 10, 16, 23, 30, April 6, 13, 20, 27, May 4, 11, June 1, S, 15, 22, 29, July 6, 13, 20, 27, August 10, 17 and 24, 1957.

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 and concluded. Under date of July 30, 1955, 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.

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