PARTIES TO DISPUTE:

STATSRENT OF CLAIM: "Claim of the Carrier that there is no language
 in Article 3(f) or any other rule of the current schedule agreement which was violated by the manner in which positions No. 2, 4, 5, 16 and 17 were assigned on Bulletin No. 1 effective 8:00 AM, April 3, 1971 at the Carrier's Minneapolis, Minnesota train dispatching office."

 OPM09 0F BOARD: The language of Section 3, First (i), of the
 Railway Labor Act and the Regulations of the National Railroad Adjustment Board (Circular No. 1, October 10, 1934), require full compliance with the procedures set forth therein governing the process of disputes on the property before being submitted to the National Railroad Adjustment Board for adjudication.

 The record before the Board clearly indicates that the claim involved herein vas not handled on the property between the parties in the manner contemplated by the Railway Labor Act or the National Railroad Adjustment Board. Therefore' the claim is dismissed.

 A claim was filed with this Board November 28, 1978 involving issues similar to those alleged herein. This award specifically is to have no bearing an any of the substantive issues to be determined therein.

 Discussion has been presented to this Board concerning the possible use of the language of this award to justify certain strike action at some future time. It is specifically held that no significance should be attached to or in award which would in any manner be considered relevant to any strike situation.

 FINDINGS: The Third Division of the Adjustment Board, upon the whole
 ' record and all the evidence, finds and holds:
                    Docket Number TD-22066


        That the parties waived oral hearing;


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 aver the dispute involved herein; and

        That the claim is not properly before the Board.


                    A W A R D


        Claim dismissed.


                          NATIONAL. RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD

                          By Order of Third Division


ATTEST: Zov
 Executive S ecr

 Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 30th day of March 1979.