(Emerson Buckley, et al PARTIES TO DISPUTE: (Mississippi Export Railroad Company

 STATEMENT OF CLAIM: "This is to serve notice, as required by the
 rules of the National Railroad Adjustment Board
 of our intention to file an ex parts submission on June 21, 1978
 covering an unadjusted dispute between us and the Mississippi Export
 Railroad, Company involving the question:

OPINION OF BOARD: The rather extensive record in this case contains
 a number of assertions, accusations, contentions,
 etc., but it is clearly established that we are confined solely to a
 consideration of the matters contained in the notification of intention
 to file an Ex Parte Submission. In this case, that document is dated
 July 3, 1978, and refers to "...an unadjusted dispute ... involving...
 Discrimination and unjustifiable lay-offs."

 Clearly, the parties sought to expand the scope of the dispute in the documents presented to us, but we have no jurisdiction over those enlarged issues.

 Moreover, our review of the record in this case leads us to conclude that the matters mentioned in the notification of intention were not presented to the Carrier on the property and handled at that level as required by the pertinent Rules Agreement and the Railway Labor Act. See Awards 20076, 20582, 20616 and 21868, among others.

 We stress that we state no opinion concerning the merits of other matters which appear to be in contention between these parties, inasmuch as our jurisdiction does not extend to those matters.


FINDINGS: The Third Division of the Adjustment Board, after giving the
 parties to 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

        That the claim be dismissed.


                    A W A R D


        Claim dismissed.


                        NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUS'EIENr BOAR

                        By Order of Third Division

ATTEST: ALAA.

        Executive Secretary


Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 24th day of August 1979.