(Dave J. Grotsky PARTIES TO DISPUTE:

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 August 6, 1971, covering an unadjusted dispute between me and the
1) Whether the Penn Central Transportation Company abriged rights guaranteed to me by Rules 6-A-1 and 7-A-1 of the Clerical Rules Agreement, effective February 1, 1968, by preparing and causing me to sign a resignation under extreme duress and harassment and threats of criminal prosecution for charges never made known to me and by denying me all appellate rights guaranteed to me by said agree by granting me a hearing under Rule 7-A-1 and not rendering a decision as required by said Rule.

 2) Whether I should be reinstated in my employment with Penn Central Transportation and be compensated for every day held out of service by the above harassment, duress and threats since December 18, 1968.

 OPINION OF BOARD: 1 - Careful consideration of the record discloses that
 claimant's resignation was voluntary and not given under
 duress and harassment.

 2 - It follows, therefore, that the carrier could not possibly have violated Rules 6-A-1 and 7-A-1 of the schedule agreement as alleged in the claim.

 FINDINGS: The Third Division of the Adjustment Board, after giving the
 parties tc this dispute due notice of hearing thereon, and upon
 the whole record and all the evidence, finds and holds:

 That the Carrier and the Employes 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

                    Docket Number MS-19578

                    A W A R D


        Claim denied.


                        NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD

                        By Order of Third Division


ATTEST:
        Executive Secretary


Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 30th day of October 1972.