Award No. 10212 Docket No. SG.10709 NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD

THIRD DIVISION

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

(a) The Carrier violated the Signalmen's Agreement, particularly Rules 22, 23, and 28, when it refused Signal Maintainer D. J. Lanfier, whose headquarters is at Hennessey, Oklahoma, and Signal Maintainer H. Klein, whose headquarters is at Medford, Oklahoma, actual necessary expenses which they incurred on August 9, 1957, at Enid, Oklahoma where they had traveled, at the direction of the Carrier, to present themselves for a re-examination in accordance with Rule 82 of the current agreement.

(b) Signal Maintainer D. J. Lanfier be reimbursed in the amount of one dollar and two cents ($1.02) and that Signal Maintainer H. Klein be reimbursed in the amount of one dollar and seventeen cents ($1.17), which represents the actual expenses incurred by each and amount claimed on this Carrier's Form G-13, which was denied by the Carrier under date of August 15, 1957.

FINDINGS: The Third Division of the Adjustment Board, 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 parts by the complainant party; and

That hearing was waived and under date of November 15, 1961, the parties jointly addressed a formal communication to the Secretary of the Third Division requesting withdrawal of this case, which request is hereby granted.

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