NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD

THIRD DIVISION

BROTHERHOOD OF RAILROAD SIGNALMEN

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 current Signalmen's Agreement particularly Rules 75 and 77, when it failed to supply signal Maintainer G. C. Henley, with assigned headquarters at West Memphis, Arkansas, with a sanitary drinking water can that he had ordered on requisition, and further violated Article V of the August 21, 1954 Agreement when it failed to disallow the grievance within 60 days of the date that it was presented by the General Chairman to a designated officer of the Carrier for consideration.

(b) The Carrier now be required to furnish Signal Maintainer G. C. Henley with a proper sanitary drinking water can for transporting drinking water in the performance of his signal maintenance duties.

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 thereon was waived by the parties and under date of November 17, 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.

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