(David M, Wright

        PARTIES TO DISPUTE:

                    (National Railroad Passenger Corporation


        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 parts submission on December 17, 1980, covering an unadjusted dispute between me and the National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak) involving the question:


              Disqualified with racial implacations"


I
 OPINION OF BOARD: From the record before us, it is clear that the claim the
      Petitioner is attempting to assert before the Board has not been handled in the usual manner on the property as required by Section 3 First (i) of the Railway Labor Act, and Circular No. 1 of the National Railroad Adjustment Board, which is a prerequisite to this Board assuming jurisdiction. The claim is barred from consideration by the Board and must be dismissed.


        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, 193+;


        That this Division of the Adjustment Board has jurisdiction over the dispute involved herein; and


              That the claim is barred.


                              A W A R D


              Claim dismissed.


                                  NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD

I By Order of Third Division

        ATTEST: Acting Executive Secretary

          _.,....yational Railroad Adjustment Rpard


              By ~s~'S'_4~_.-..s~..!~!L`-.~'.,~,'r_1'~ri~_~ Rosemarie Brasch - Administrative Assistant


              Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 26th day of t:arc;: 198~2.

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