NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD

THIRD DIVISION

STATEMENT OF CLAIM: Claim of the General Committee on the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company that:

(a) The Carrier violated the Scope Rule of the current Signalmen's Agreement when it authorized or permitted Assistant Signal Supervisor Plunkett to handle and transport signal material and tools taken from Signal Maintainer's storehouse at Caldwell, Okla., to Signal Gang #1 working near Waukomis, Okla., on April 8, 1956.

(b) The Carrier now pay H. Klein, Signal Maintainer at Medford, Okla., for one call (2-8/12 hrs. punitive time).

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 employe involved in this dispute are respectively carrier and employe 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 and concluded. Under date of October 18, 1961, 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