BROTHERHOOD OF RAILWAY AND STEAMSHIP CLERKS, FREIGHT HANDLERS, EXPRESS AND STATION EMPLOYES
STATEMENT OF CLAIM: Claim of the System Committee of the Brotherhood (GL-5192) that:
1. In the Office of the Carrier's Chief Engineer, Erwin, Tennessee, there has been, for many years, a Clerk position the duties of which primarily required a working knowledge of material and labor distribution of track bridge and buildings, signal communications and equipment, stock, personal injury, cost and monthly reports. The occupant of the position prepared and typed bills, and billed materials and invoices. Prior to 1955 the position was held for about thirty years by J. C. Monk, who did not use shorthand, but conducted the correspondence of the department by typing letters from longhand notes made by the Supervisors in the Department.
2. When the position was bulletined in 1955 "taking dictation" was added to the description of duties. The position was assigned to Mr. W. E. Little, who was qualified to take and transcribe shorthand. The position was next bulletined on July 24, 1957, carrying the shorthand requirement, and was awarded to Mr. J. R. Lukianoff, who could not write shorthand and who held the position until July 21, 1958, on which date he was displaced by Mr. G. J. Westall, to whom a displacement right had accrued. At the time Mr. Westall exercised seniority to the position no mention was made of the shorthand requirement, but about one month thereafter the Chief Engineer wrote him a letter stating that he would be required to learn to take dictation. Mr. Westall did not begin to learn shorthand and, as a result, was notified by