PARTIES TO DISPUTE:



BROTHERHOOD OF RAILWAY AND STEAMSHIP CLERKS,

FREIGHT HANDLERS, EXPRESS AND STATION EMPLOYES


STATEMENT OF CLAIM: (10) Claim in behalf of St. Joseph employes:







OPINION OF BOARD: This case is the same as in Award 9867. For the reasons stated in that award, this claim should also be dismissed.

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;


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That this Division of the Adjustment Board has jurisdiction over the dispute involved herein; and

    That the claim is barred by Rule 40 (d) of the Agreement.


                  AWARD


    Claim dismissed.


              NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD By Order of THIRD DIVISION


              ATTEST: S. H. Schulty

                  Executive Secretary.


Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 23rd day of March, 1961.