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                                              Award Number 24329

                                              Docket Number b15-24823


      (Manual M. Sanchez PARTIES TO DISPUTE: (Southern Pacific Transportation Company (Western Lines)


                      STATEMENT OF CLAIM: "EMT - I request my employment - once my submission has been reviewed and if I am correct I also request back pay for all the time that my job was refused."


      OPINION OF BOARD: The claimant seeks employment and back wages for all time

      that employment was refused. A review of the record in

      dicates no evidence that a claim for such employment and compensation was ever

      initiated or handled in the usual manner on the property as provided by the

      collective bargaining agreement, but was submitted directly to this Board for

      adjudication.


      Section 3, First (i) of the Railway Labor Act and Circular No. 1 of the National Railroad Adjustment Hoard require that disputes be processed in the usual manner as provided in the pasties' Agreement before they may be submitted to this Board fo not fulfilled, we have no choice but to dismiss the claim without consideration of its merits.


                FINDINGS: The Third Division of the Adjustment Board, upon the whole record and all the evidence, finds and holds:


                That hearing as requested was meld and concluded;


      That the Carrier and the Ehiploye involved in this dispute are respectively Carrier and Employe approved June 21, 1934;


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


                That the claim is barred.