NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD
THIRD DIVISION
STATEMENT OF CLAIM: This is to serve notice, as required by the rules of the National Railroad Adjustment Board, of my intention to file an ex parte submission on May 13, 1970, covering an unadjusted dispute between me and the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad involving the question:
Claim for severance pay on account of abolishment of position: Secretary to Assistant Freight Claim Agent, Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, Mr. R. S. Baker, 114 Sansome St., San Francisco, Calif. My service with the carrier started on March 16, 1954 and ended August 31, 1965.
OPINION OF BOARD: The record discloses that this claim was never handled in the usual manner on the property per Section 3, First (i) of the Railway Labor Act. In addition no conference teas ever held on this property prior to submission of the dispute to this Board in accordance with the Railway Labor Act referred to above. Therefore, this claim must be dismissed. See Awards 13235 (Dorsey), 13461 (Hutchins), 13659 (Mesigh), 14976 (Ritter) among many others.
FINDINGS: The Third Division of the Adjustment Board, upon the whole record and all the evidence, finds and holds:
That the Carrier and the Employee involved in this dispute are respectively Carrier and Employes 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; and